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As the crowning finale of the International Somemra Academy, the best students of the week will perform their skills in front of a jury at the prize-winners' concerts at the end of each course period. At the end, the best three musicians will emerge as the prize winners of the week.

The German bass-baritone Peter Ullrich is Professor of Singing at the Department of Music Education in Innsbruck. To mark his retirement, musical companions from the last 40 years will perform a concert evening.

The concert takes the audience on a musical journey through the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. The elegant and subtle instrumental voices revitalise the rich tradition of music from past eras and explore the variety of styles and forms of expression of this period.

Together with pianist Chih-Hung Chang, Takanari Koyama explores the sound worlds between piano and double bass. The programme includes Franz Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata, Giovanni Bottesini: Capriccio di bravura and Reinhold Glière: Four pieces for double bass and piano

The exhibition brings together around 40 artistic, creative, performative and participative projects and works by students from the Visual Education and Design: Technology.Textile programmes.

That Karl Kraus should be considered untranslatable is a judgement that has been circulated with persistent regularity for at least fifty years. The symposium planned for Kraus' 150th birthday proposes to raise the question of a new view of Kraus in the light of translation.

From 22 to 25 April, László Tihanyi (composer, conductor and professor at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest) will be a guest at the Institute for New Music together with students from the Budapest Academy.

The NSU trial is the largest criminal trial against right-wing extremist violence since the Second World War. Commentators have described the 438 days of proceedings as "drilling deep into German society". After the trial began in 2013, Elfriede Jelinek wrote "Das schweigende Mädchen".

The NSU trial is the largest criminal trial against right-wing extremist violence since the Second World War. Commentators have described the 438 days of proceedings as "drilling deep into German society". After the trial began in 2013, Elfriede Jelinek wrote "Das schweigende Mädchen".

The block lecture series is dedicated to shadows and their dark sides in art and science. The aim is to develop a dialectic between fundamental themes and new questions between film and music, body and movement, art history and literary studies, among others.

Book presentation with Laurenz Lütteken (University of Zurich) & Yvonne Wasserloos. Chamber music accompaniment: students of the Institute of Chamber Music