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The Mozarteum University declares its solidarity with the Iranians who are courageously protesting for self-determination and equal rights in their country. State despotism and violence are to be condemned in the strongest possible terms!

The Mozart in Nairobi project tells the story of imprisoned mothers and their left-behind children in Kenya in an essay film,

A great success for the PLUS, the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, the SALK and the Mozarteum University: The Ministry of Education, Science and Research has now approved research funding of three million euros for, among other things, Salzburg Collaborative Computing (SCC), a new high-performance computer for the universities of the Salzburg region that will usher in the research world of tomorrow.

News … Home News Mozarteum University at the Cultural Poster Award 202 Mozarteum University at the Cultural Poster Award 2022 29.09.2022 Awards & Successes Sandra Steindl On September 28, 2022, the City and Province of Salzburg, ORF Landesstudio Salzburg and Progress Werbung once again awarded prizes for the best cultural posters of the past year at the traditional Kulturplakatpreis ceremony. The Department of Fine Arts & Design of the Mozarteum University won 2nd place with its poster for the Tour 2022 "Jellybubble", which was endowed with 3000 euros. The poster was designed by Gerhard Andraschko-Sorgo, lecturer for visual design at the Mozarteum University and managing director of the design studio Linie3. The department has two reasons to be happy. This year, Progress-Werbung Salzburg announced a trophy competition in which two designs by students of the Department of Fine Arts and Design at the Mozarteum University were selected. The trophy design "More than Paper" by Mario Plattner (Innsbruck location) was selected for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Culture Poster Award as well as for the best series and Clara Elixmann's design from Salzburg was selected as a trophy for the special format of the Culture Poster Award. Perhaps also interesting ... Rector Constanze Wimmer takes up her post with a new team at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg 1.4.2026 Rector Constanze Wimmer takes up her post with a new team at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg  The four-year term of office for the new Rectorate of the Mozarteum University Salzburg begins on 1 April 2026. Music educator Constanze Wimmer will lead the institution. Together with her team – Hannfried Lucke, Karin Skarek, Helmut Schaumberger and Eugen Banauch – she aims to provide key impetus for the further development of the arts, teaching and research. A warm welcome to them all! Press release Ö1 Talent Scholarship for Visual Arts 2026 18.3.2026 Ö1 Talent Scholarship for Visual Arts 2026  The Ö1 Talent Scholarship for Visual Arts, worth €10,000, is provided by Wiener Städtischer Versicherungsverein. The award is intended to support emerging talent among students at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Art and Design Linz, the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the University of Art and Design Graz. Open Call ‘You have to breathe with the music’ 15.3.2026 ‘You have to breathe with the music’  Christian Thielemann will kick off his teaching career as a university professor of orchestral conducting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with an inaugural concert on 10 October in Salzburg Cathedral. A conversation about passing on experience, serenity – and why young musicians should take their time. Interview The Space In Between 14.3.2026 The Space In Between  Radio, Relationality, and Artistic Research: In October 2025, Karen Werner started her professorship at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. Working with radio as a deeply relational medium she explores presence, communication, and co-creation and reflects on radio as an aesthetic and political space. Interview

News … Home News Project presentation Pia Imbar Pia Imbar: Diploma presentation 28.10.2022 Student project © Pia Imbar Carmen (Georges Bizet) Presentation at the Nagy Candle Manufactory, Salzburg Department of scenography

News … Home News Tour 2022 Scenography Tour 2022 30.06.2022 Student project © Christian Schneider The Department of Scenography invites you to this year's tour! After a two-year break, we present ourselves in all our diversity. In addition to performance, film and photo galleries, we also give insight into the daily work in the studio and show the most diverse projects that have sprung and been lost here in recent years. Program SINSATION, Laura Trilsam (Performance) IS THIS YOU? Marina Calabrese (installation) IN NOMIE LUDI, Carla Schwering ( short film) LIGHT HEAVENLY, Nogati Udayana (performance) OUT OF THE SKIN FAHREN, Christina Winkler (performance) STARRE MÜHEN, Marinus Halbig (performance) HAMLET MACHINE, Jiale Zhu (short film) DON'T PEAK, Lucas Bertin (performance) WHAT'S IN IT? Ella Hölldampf (performance) AND YOU? Yoko Ann Idler (performance) Also: open studios, book presentation AK/NUDE, culinary tastes & bar. Gallery Skip slider © Christian Schneider © Christian Schneider © Christian Schneider © Christian Schneider © Christian Schneider © Christian Schneider © Christian Schneider © Christian Schneider © Christian Schneider © Christian Schneider Jump to slider start Dates 30. June 2022 from 16.00 Paris-Lodron-Straße 9, 5020 Salzburg

Another piece of normality returned and the Mozarteum University hosted another alumni and emeriti gathering on June 30. We met amidst the exhibition "Achtung International - Salzburg and 100 Years of the International Society for New Music" in the foyer of the Mozarteum University for a drink. Matthew Werley gave a guided tour of the exhibition afterwards and the evening ended with a visit to Claudio Monteverdi's opera "L'incoronazione di Poppea".

The spatial installation ALLEGRIA is an interdisciplinary, interpretative research on Mozart's Symphony No. 17 in G major (KV 129).

News … Home News International Summer Academy enters the finale with a concert of prize winners Summer Academy enters the finale with a concert of the prize winners 12.08.2022 Press release © Christian Schneider They will present excerpts from their repertoire on August 20 at 7:30 pm in the Max Schlereth Hall. The event takes place in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival. The prizes are donated by the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg. After a two-year break due to the pandemic and not entirely easy travel conditions, the International Summer Academy Mozarteum was relaunched with a very gratifying 438 participants and 538 course bookings from 52 nations. The average age was 21 years. The most represented nation was Germany with 60 participants, followed by South Korea (47) and the United States (43). China (32) and Japan (30) followed closely. Austria was represented by 24 participants and Italy by 23. Six participants* came from Ukraine, supported by a full scholarship through the University Mozarteum's Ukraine Aid Fund, financed by donations and income from concerts. The most popular master classes were traditionally those for piano, violin and voice. Master classes with renowned artists offer extraordinary opportunities to work intensively and exclusively with internationally active interpreters and to learn from them. "My participation in the International Summer Academy was one of the musical and personal highlights of my life so far. The teachers are among the best in the world and the students came from all over the world, which made for a special cultural exchange and musical education. A personal highlight of the master class was the possibility to visit other courses, from which I learned a lot every day" as Tim De Vries from the Netherlands from Christian Altenburger's master class pointed out. This year's lecturers included: Christian Altenburger, Pierre Amoyal, Zakhar Bron, Ya-Fei Chuang, Mario Diaz, Barbara Doll, Andreas Frölich, Alexander Gilman, Michaela Girardi, Wally Hase, Christopher Hinterhuber, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Robert Levin, Barbara Lübke, Hannfried Lucke, Leonel Morales, Valentin Radutiu, Thomas Riebl, Paul Roczek, Andreas Schablas, Markus Schirmer, Andreas Schmidt, Herbert Schuch, Sergiu Schwartz, Christoph Strehl, Wilfried Strehle, Claudius Tanski, John Thomasson, Kirill Troussov, Pauliina Tukiainen, Philipp Tutzer, Michael Vaiman, Arie Vardi, Andreas Weber and Dina Yoffe. The program and the prize winners will be announced shortly before the concert due to the last third course period still in progress. There will be one selection concert per course period. Laureate concert of the International Summer Academy 2022: Saturday, August 20, 7:30 p.m. in the Max Schlereth Hall, Mozarteum University, Mirabellplatz 1 Tickets for the laureate concert: 40,- to 60,- Euro available at the ticket office of the Mozarteum Foundation www.mozarteum.at/kartenbuero and at the box office.

News … Home News Shun Oi Wins Next Generation Conductors Academy and Competition Shun Oi wins Next Generation Conductors Academy 25.08.2022 Awards & Successes Congratulations to Shun Oi for winning the 1st prize at the international Next-Generation Conductors Academy and Competition in Hiroshima! On top he received the special prize for the best interpretation of the contemporary composition Blossoming II by Toshio Hosokawa.  Shun Oi was born in Japan in 1993. From 2012 to 2014 he studied piano at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris with Jean-Marie Cottet and continued his studies with Andreas Groethuysen at the Mozarteum University (Bachelor degree 2019). From 2015 to 2019, he studied orchestral conducting in the class of Bruno Weil, Alexander Drčar, Johannes Kalitzke and Reinhard Goebel, followed by master's studies in the class of Ion Marin, Alexander Drčar and Reinhard Goebel. In addition, Oi completed a bachelor's degree in historical keyboard instruments in the class of Christine Schornsheim at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich; starting next fall, he will follow this with a master's degree with Mikayel Balyan at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Perhaps also interesting ... Ö1 Talent Exchange: Composition Prize 2025 27.2.2026 Ö1 Talent Exchange: Composition Prize 2025  The Ö1 Talentebörse Composition Prize in the amount of 10,000 euros is awarded by Ö1 and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) and will be announced for the eleventh time in 2026. The composition prize is a composition commission for a chamber music work, which may also include electronics. Open Call Study with Christian Thielemann: New Orchestral Conducting Class from October 2026 6.2.2026 Study with Christian Thielemann: New Orchestral Conducting Class from October 2026  From October 2026, students at Mozarteum University Salzburg will have the opportunity to gain in-depth insight into orchestral conducting. Christian Thielemann, together with his assistants Martin Fuchsberger and Jobst Schneiderat, will assume responsibility for the artistic training of a select group of aspiring orchestral conductors. Registration for the audition is open until 28 February 2026. News Awards for Outstanding Master's Theses 2023/24 13.1.2026 Awards for Outstanding Master's Theses 2023/24  Prizes for an outstanding Master's thesis 2023/24 have been awarded to Tim Anselm Gebel, Carlos Goikoetxea Cancho and Andreas Johannes Neubacher - congratulations! Awards & Successes Ensemble scholarship: A (one-year) Start Up for Ensemble(s) 22.12.2025 Ensemble scholarship: A (one-year) Start Up for Ensemble(s)  Establishing and developing the profile of an ensemble is one of the most demanding and, at the same time, most appealing challenges in artistic development. Many globally successful ensembles were formed during their studies, laying the foundation for an international chamber music career. However, existing study programmes alone can only provide limited incentives and framework conditions for this. The ensemble scholarship is the answer to this: convincing project proposals receive financial support for a period of one year to realise specific artistic projects. Open Call

Building on the experience of the two previous funding periods, in which most partner organisations were already involved, transfer formats in the STEAM area are being developed for the target groups of employees at the knowledge and technology transfer interfaces, researchers, students, graduates and stakeholders in the (creative) economy. The aim here is to build bridges between STEM disciplines and the artistic-creative sector.

The project MOZART-REALTIME QUINTETT offers an audiovisual experience in which the music of W. A. Mozart is realized as a synesthetic, interactive visualization by means of computer-generated real-time graphics. With the aim of creating an active playful and at the same time creative access to the work of Mozart, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet (KV 581) was realized as an interactive fulldome environment. With the help of a touch interface, the visitors can intervene in the audiovisual composition and change it.

News … Home News Thorben Schumüller: Diploma presentation Thorben Schumüller: Diploma presentation 25.05.2022 Student project © Thorben Schumüller "The Building (Franz Kafka) - Aesthetic Approaches to Kafka's Narrative" Theater im KunstQuartier Department of scenography Gallery Skip slider © Thorben Schumüller © Thorben Schumüller © Thorben Schumüller © Thorben Schumüller © Thorben Schumüller © Thorben Schumüller © Thorben Schumüller © Thorben Schumüller © Thorben Schumüller © Thorben Schumüller Jump to slider start

The Sustainability Challenge invites master's and advanced bachelor's students from all fields of study to apply for interdisciplinary courses on sustainability with a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals, to gain practical experience and ECTS. They work with companies, ministries or NGOs on concrete sustainability projects from the field, while the theoretical input is provided by lecturers from the seven participating universities.

At the end of the 1970s, a group of so-called "school musicians" of the subjects A1, A2 and IGP left the Mozarteum University (at that time still a university) as graduates and have nevertheless always remained in contact - with each other but also with their alma mater. After the general "forced break" of the last two years, this year thirteen alumni and alumnae from different regions and professional fields met again in Innsbruck. May many more meetings follow!

News … Home News Michael Hofer-Lenz as a guest at the MQ Vienna Michael Hofer-Lenz as a guest at the MQ Vienna 21.06.2022 Student project © Gabber Modus Operandi & Rimbawan Gerilya A cooperation of the Department for Stage and Costume Design, Film and Exhibition Architecture and the MuseumsQuartier Wien Duration of exhibition: until November 20, 2022 Opening hours: Tue - Sun from 13.00 - 19.00 frei_raum Q21 exhibition space at the MuseumsQuartier Wien