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And the winner is... The university's internal Research Competition Mozarteum (RCM) took place for the 6th time in 2024 and has established itself as a fixed part of the university's annual schedule. On December 3, the best submissions were honored at the Award Ceremony with the involvement of the international RCM jury.

The Institute for Contemporary Music at Mozarteum University focuses on artistic collaboration, interdisciplinarity in practice and, above all, experimentation.

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In October 2025, the new ‘Music Multis: Next Generation’ funding programme will start at the Mozarteum University. This programme, which is unique in Austria to date, prepares young talents specifically for music education studies.

tourists also come to Austria because of the cultural offerings, not just because of the beautiful landscapeHowever, I assume that a lot will change in the theater landscape. www.edithhaller.com More portraits

The Applied Theatre Master's programme at Mozarteum University celebrates its 5th birthday. A look back and ahead with Prof. Ulrike Hatzer, who has headed the programme since 2019.

Laure M. Hiendl has been an assistant professor* of composition at the Mozarteum University since 2021, and her new piece is a harbinger of a festival to be held in Nuremberg in July 2022.

More than 330 years after the premiere of the only complete opera by Henry Purcell, the French composer Henry Fourès composes a musical setting for Dido and Aeneas and calls it Elissa. A conversation with Rector Elisabeth Gutjahr, who wrote the libretto for it.

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.

How can (body) boundaries be overcome and what has one's own body not yet learned? Ten students of the teacher training programme "Design: Technology.Textiles" are exploring these questions in an exhibition at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau.

As one of the leading international institutions of its kind, the Department of Strings & Plucked Instruments offers young musicians a top-class education and prepares them for modern concert life: with numerous performance opportunities, competitions, festivals, , orchestral productions and international exchange programs.

Tina Geroldinger, a young Austrian composer, and Maurycy Hartman, clarinettist and founding member of the Ensemble for Contemporary Music, in conversation about the new ensemble, opportunities and possibilities for contemporary music in the current music world and about special moments that arise when people engage intensively with each other musically.

6 years of the Mozarteum Research Competition: Since 2019, the Mozarteum University's research management has awarded an annual prize for artistic, scientific and scholarly research projects. Director Eugen Banauch takes stock.

participation in key international networks, thereby taking on a role in shaping the global educational landscape

Perhaps both the agency landscape and the structures in the concert business have changed.

time there was a shortage of young instrumentalists, which was reflected in the state of the musical landscape