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"Years of Safari" is about the expectations many Africans migrants carry when coming to Austria and other European countries, including the hopes and dreams that travel with them. That reflects on the transformations, barriers, and pressures that shape migrants’ everyday lives as they navigate new realities.

On 8 November 2025, at the closing dinner of the AEC Conference in the Carabinierisaal of the Residenz Salzburg – a gathering that brought together delegates from more than 120 music universities across Europe and beyond – the Mozarteum University awarded honorary doctorates to Dame Janet Ritterman and Professor Michael Worton. This marks only the second time in the university’s history that this distinction has been conferred: after Nikolaus Harnoncourt received the first honorary doctorate in 2008, it has now been bestowed on two individuals who have played a decisive role in shaping the Mozarteum’s research profile.

In KÖNIGIN DER NACHT—An Archive of Salzburg’s Club Culture, the audience encounters three partygoers in a club. The three—a DJ, a party decorator, and a clubgoer—represent the ecstatic nightlife of the so-called City of Mozart.

UE, Wien 2014

In cooperation with the Austrian Paper Museum Steyrermühl, students intensively explored the material paper, examining material, form, technique, color, structure and haptics, and developed projects in different scales that were subsequently shown publicly in the museum.

Masks can be grotesque, sacred, mysterious, beautiful, terrifying, frightening and much more. They show and conceal at the same time. Masks have two sides. They oscillate between the inside and the outside - connecting and separating at the same time. They allow us to change roles, to role-play and are also a metaphor for our social role behaviour. Masks are an offer to change.

Which opera houses do you know, where would you most like to visit an opera and how do you imagine a contemporary opera performance? Take part now in the survey as part of the Opera out of Opera project and, with a bit of luck, win one of three vouchers worth 100 euros for a store of your choice! The closing date for entries is January 31, 2023.

How much time do we give life in life? Pelican or raven? How much role modeling can we tolerate? Where do we put our anger? Do you wash your hands often enough? And do you like to eat bread? Yes, and who actually asks mum? Lievito Madre invites you to take time to listen, ask yourself questions and take a closer look at the roles of mothers.

After the successful first edition of "With Dylan on the Road", a competitive travel scholarship program of the Mozarteum University, the project inspired by the polyartist Bob Dylan is entering the next round.

The Moz-Art-Zone is the University Mozarteum's outreach program for children and young people, offering a broad spectrum of events in all areas of art - excitingly conceived programs are designed to inspire and excite in the long term, but also to promote exchange between students and young artists.

Four work contracts were awarded to gather more detailed information on the history and development of schlager, folk music, rock and pop music, and dance schools in the city of Salzburg in the run-up to the symposium "Those were the days. Salzburg's popular music cultures in the 1950s and 1960s". Soundtracks, newspaper clippings, and other materials were collected; the focus of the survey, however, was an oral history project, in the context of which numerous interviews were conducted and documented with eyewitnesses or people who had provided information.

Together with the clarinetist Barbara Neu, the idea was born to initiate this project on stories andYes, also in this project, in which I compose and arrange, several senses are addressed.The prize was awarded to him for the realization of our interdisciplinary project "zwischen uns".A first presentation of the Zawinul project will take place in Vienna in October 2021.

Students of the 7A class of the BORG-Nonntal will create a music-theatrical performance of the improvisational-experimental score Individuum↔Collectivum (1979) by the composer Vinko Globokar. How can experimental-improvisational artistic interactions be described as aesthetic and social phenomena? Which methods prove to be particularly suitable for this purpose and what conclusions can be drawn in order to specifically promote aesthetic competences in music lessons?

The Salzburg AG Art Prize in the field of visual arts for students at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, worth EUR 10,000 and awarded for the first time, goes to Lukas Stangl (born 1992, Austria). With the Salzburg AG Art Prize, Salzburg AG promotes artistic engagement with the theme of ‘energy’. Theme of the first edition: Data Whispers: Making the Invisible Visible – congratulations!

Mozarteum University's support programme for young music-lovers will be running again in autumn 2026. Registrations are open until 10th July.

Inspired by the polyartist Bob Dylan and his approaches of appropriation and transformation, nine artistic-explorative teams of two from the Mozarteum University were on the road in South Africa, the US, Mexico, Europe and Latin America during the first half of 2022. The results are nine art projects that will be premiered on October 14 and 15 as part of Jazz & The City, accompanied by a symposium "Inspired by ... commemorating 60 Years of Bob Dylan.".