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Mayumi Hirasaki (Univ.-Prof. of Baroque Violin) is honored in the category “Concert Recording of the Year” for her CD “Pisendel” with Concerto Köln on the Berlin Classic label, Max Volbers (Senior Lecturer at the Department of Early Music) in the category “ Young Artist of the Year” for his CD “Whispers of Tradition” on the Genuin label.

Univ.-Prof. of Viola

It is with great sorrow that the Mozarteum University announces the passing of its former rector, Univ.-Prof. Reinhart von Gutzeit, who died on 11th July 2025 in Lucerne after a long illness, surrounded by his family.

A historic moment: On October 12, the first eight Hungarian acting students received their graduation diplomas as part of the "Emergency Exit" cooperation program between Freeszfe Budapest and the University Mozarteum Salzburg!

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 flutist and instrumental music teacher Sofiia Musina came to Salzburg to study at the Mozarteum University in April 2022. From 2017 to 2022, she studied at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in Ukraine and obtained a Master's degree in ‘Master of Musical Art. Educational and Professional Programme: Musical Art’. She wrote her master's thesis on the Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk.

Univ.-Prof. of Chamber Music

Two projects from Mozarteum University Salzburg have been included in the “Atlas of Good Teaching”, a nationwide platform showcasing innovative teaching initiatives at Austrian universities. The Pre-College ensemble project Bella Musica and the university teaching initiative LAUT:SPRECHER demonstrate how artistic excellence, academic reflection and social responsibility can be combined in higher education in the arts. Both projects provide inspiring examples of participatory, future-oriented teaching practice.

Since the beginning of the year, the project "Practicing Care" has been focusing on the transnational social responsibility of a university of the arts with a variety of activities. Exemplary for these activities is the awarding of an honorary professorship by the Senate of the Mozarteum University to the Belarusian flautist, pedagogue and civil rights activist Maria Kalesnikava, who was sentenced to 11 years of penal colony in her home country. Dorothee Oberlinger and Olga Shparaga, among others, will participate in the program of the ceremony on October 30.

The model for the opera, which premiered in 1859 at the Théatre-Lyrique in Paris, was Michel Carré's

This year’s Erika Frieser Chamber Music Days will take place at the Mozarteum University from 5 to 7 May, marking the fourth edition of the festival. The three-day chamber music festival celebrates the work of women composers and other non-canonical figures.

Em. Univ.-Prof. of Experimental Space-Sound-Body Theater

To implement this social responsibility and the concomitant function as a role model in the best possibleThey must themselves be aware that they function as a role model for the employees and external partiesTeachers have a role model function in this regard.

Both compositions are linked by the collaboration of the two artists as well as the textual model, a

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Univ.-Prof. of Film Art & Visual Communication