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Univ.-Prof. of Composition

Guest Lecturer on the course "Advanced Studies in Music and Dance Education – Orff-Schulwerk“ (Madrid)

Award for the cooperation project of the Mozarteum University and the University of Vechta

Reichert Verlag 2024, Wiesbaden

In the WS 2023, the MA Applied Theater – artistic theater practice & society focuses on practices of artivism, performativity and the inscription of one’s own biography in (artistic) work and society.

The Sir Ian Stoutzer Prize, endowed with 20,000 euros, is awarded annually to students from artistic instrumental and vocal classes at the Mozarteum University. The sponsor of the highly endowed award is the British businessman and philanthropist Sir Ian Stoutzker.

The combination of artistic-creative and scientific-technical approaches is at the centre of the inter- and transdisciplinary project "Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change" project. Together with children and young people, the CreART Lab will be developed over the next few years, a mobile educational space with various opportunities to engage with innovative ideas and possible solutions on the topics of sustainable building and living as well as climate-friendly mobility. As one of 12 projects out of 182 submissions, "Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change" came out on top in the "Learning" category.

The Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize, launched at the Mozarteum University in 2019, has produced six winners! In the spirit of interdisciplinarity and inclusion, the selection process was open to all students of the Mozarteum University for the first time. The outstanding winner of the evening is the soprano Veronika Loy.

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.".

Judith Rubatscher, graduate of music education at the Mozarteum Innsbruck, was awarded a research prize by the Kanda Center of the University of Innsbruck for her ethnomusicological thesis "'Singen is a part vo unsam leben.' Die aktuelle Gesangspraxis der Schmiedeleut-I-Hutterer in Manitoba" (Supervisor: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Nußbaumer). Rubatscher dealt with the musical tradition of the Hutterites, a Tyrolean Anabaptist community from the 16th century, which today is only represented in North America.

With his provocative 4'33’, the American composer John Cage made it clear as early as the 1950s thatThe composer Jean Sibelius put it in a nutshell: ‘Art is the signature of civilisation.’It is also worth noting that a recently published study on the cultural and creative industries beforeWith a trade balance of 8.6 billion euros (2019) and 7.6 million jobs, the H&C economy is or was

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Univ.-Prof. of Piano and Piano Didactics

Anna Barbara Kastelewicz, a graduate of the Department of Musicology at the Mozarteum University, was recently honoured with the Award of Excellence for her dissertation on "Music, culture and cultural activities in the special camps of the Soviet occupying power 1945 - 1950 in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR". Congratulations!

Univ.-Prof. of Viola da Gamba

great deal to Claudio Monteverdi when he composed for the operatic stage; more than that, it was theonly category to which he adhered as a music dramatist.It seems that the first important opera composer in the history of music found the desired conditionsIn his last opera, Monteverdi came up with a drastic innovation.