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At the Department of Scenography, under the direction of the filmmaker and video artist Alexander du Prel, numerous animated films have been created at the Mozarteum University. The special feature: classical animation techniques are combined with digital recording techniques, the individual images are drawn individually on paper in analog form and then digitally stitched together, so that the films retain the charm of traditional animation. There is no other university or college in the German-speaking world that still works with this technique.

The film LOST IN DIMENSIONS by pianist Róza Radnóti makes an attempt to find visually expressible events in music, aiming to give the audience an intense and complex experience by interpreting the second movement of the Piano Sonata in C major (KV 545) in an abstract, non-narrative way.

News … Home News Of the fading of the signature Of the fading of the signature 01.03.2021 News © Andrew Phelps With the beginning of March begins the third semester under the sign of the virus, still universities are "until further notice" in distance teaching. On the periphery of the field of vision, art universities are struggling to maintain the course of studies: Although much takes place under strict security precautions in face-to-face teaching, but there is a lack of the publicity that is essential to the realization of art. Art is created in the eye of the beholder. With his provocative 4'33’, the American composer John Cage made it clear as early as the 1950s that only hearing turns the audible into music. Seeing and hearing, understanding and appreciating are to be understood as achievements of civilisation. The composer Jean Sibelius put it in a nutshell: ‘Art is the signature of civilisation.’ The reverse conclusion is obvious: in times of Covid-19, this signature is fading and civilisation is losing its contours. And perhaps, after a long period of existence as screen existences, we will awaken in Michael Ende's ‘never-ending story’: in the fading of civilisation and its power of imagination. This makes the countless initiatives and activities of artists against the silencing and disappearance all the more encouraging. They find support in the media, the fourth estate in the state, which celebrates the urgently needed perception in the best possible way and thus prevents the the best possible way and thus offers the survival of art's fading out by decree. Monument! Our language is also full of images and makes us sit up and take notice; it provides information about short-term thinking in crisis situations and the underlying mindset. ‘System relevance’, for example, raises several questions at once: What does ‘system’, a term that is otherwise more likely to be localised in totalitarian states, mean in this context? And In the event that ‘system’ here stands for society or health, what does the exclusion of education and culture from ‘system relevance’ signal to us? That negative tests are to be regarded as positive, is unlikely to be adopted in the education system, and the Anglicisms distance learning, homeschooling or home office are difficult to translate into German: Working from home sounds outdated, distance learning or distance mode are linguistically opposed to the internalisation or appropriation of learning content. linguistically.  We keep our distance and zoom in on our private spheres. But how much closeness can we tolerate and how much distance do we need? Between isolation and exposure stands a nice baby elephant as a Pokémon figure. Really? The need for protection urgently needs to be re-examined, because what is at stake here is the mental health of our society and therefore its future viability. In the artistic process of making in-between tones and silence audible, visualising interstices and emptiness, exploring counter-worlds and interrogating counter-algorithms, a reconquest of the world can take place that has been blocked out in the noise of crisis mode. When Goethe upholds art as the mediator of the inexpressible, this is exactly what he means. Artistic creation, creativity and culture expand the realities of our lives and thus also the possibility of diversity in communities. It is also worth noting that a recently published study on the cultural and creative industries before and after Covid-19, published by Ernst & Young in close cooperation with GESAC, an association of 32 European collecting societies, under the title ‘Rebuilding Europe’, shows the economic weight of this sector and the high growth potential that became apparent in the years 2013 to 2019. that became visible between 2013 and 2019. With a trade balance of 8.6 billion euros (2019) and 7.6 million jobs, the H&C economy is or was an important sector. In 2020, turnover fell by an estimated 31 per cent, with theatre (-90 per cent) and music (-76 per cent) being hit the hardest. The study concludes that the crisis will have a massive and lasting impact on the entire value chain of the cultural and creative industries and presents a three-stage plan to meet the challenge of ‘Rebuilding Europe’. Rebuilding this sector also means rebuilding our civilisation as a normative force of our self-image. The current generation of students must play a part in this reconstruction, As a university, we should support them. ‘Art is what you can get away with.’ - Andy Warhol   (First published in the Uni-Nachrichten / Salzburger Nachrichten on 1 March 2021) More News 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 More news

Orff's 125th birthday, the 100th anniversary of Wilhelm Keller, and the 60th anniversary of the Orff Institute provide an opportunity in 2021 - one year late due to corona - to illuminate Carl Orff's pioneering work from an artistic and scholarly perspective.

The controversial UG Amendment 2021 was passed in the National Council on March 24, 2021, however, the Federal Council objected in its session on March 30, 2021. Thus, the amendment cannot enter into force for the time being.

"The Flying Dutchman. the multidimensional portrait" presentation at the former Baroque Museum, Mirabellgarten, Salzburg

We look with horror at the latest developments in Hungary's cultural and educational landscape: a government-appointed board of trustees has taken over the governing powers of the Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) and abolished the university's autonomy.

MOZART CONTAINED! is an interactive music experience in several containers.

SCANNING DIMENSIONS opens a space of projection and light as a dialogue and flowing transition between music and video, where one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's early pieces, KV15dd, becomes the content point of departure for the visualization and staging in space.

in 1775, the 19-year-old Mozart was commissioned by his employer, Prince-Archbishop Count Colloredo of Salzburg, with whom he was in permanent disagreement, to compose a piece of princely chamber music for the evening entertainment...

The starting point for the film NIGHT is the Fantasy in D minor by W. A. Mozart, perhaps the most played piano piece, at least among young music students, which inspired a cinematic narrative in which the composer's biographical approaches and musical elements of the composition were associatively transformed into a woman's nocturnal journey through a big city, played by Jenny Schily.

Accompanied by the sounds of Mozart's Violin Sonata in E minor, which lays over the smoldering conflicts like an ideal world, IDYLL tells of a family in upheaval…

Unbounded deals with the transformation process of the first movement of Mozart's Symphony in A major (KV 201) into a gradually emerging abstract painting, realized in the form of an animated film.

In a meeting with the senate chairpersons of Austrian universities at the end of October, representatives of the Ministry of Education provided information about a planned amendment to the Universities Act. The intention to disempower the senates and thus massively restrict the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of science and art is evident.

In particular, the project addresses students, young adults, and career changers for whom access to knowledge about artistic professions and study opportunities is difficult due to their social and local conditions.

The project includes four focal scientific considerations of university vocal training or the underlying vocal pedagogical frameworks.