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News … Home News Laureates' Concert International Summer Academy 2019 Laureates' Concert International Summer Academy 2019 20.08.2019 Press release Iris Wagner © Christian Schneider Around 800 students from 57 nations participated in the International Summer Academy 2019 of the Mozarteum University Salzburg. Some students attended more than one master class, so that a total of 942 course bookings were registered. The final highlight is the prize-winners' concert on August 23 as part of the Salzburg Festival at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation. After six intensive course weeks, the best students of all master classes traditionally perform - selected in the "Prize Winner Selection Academies" of the Inter-national Summer Academy Mozarteum by the jury members Johannes Honsig-Erlenburg (President of the International Mozarteum Foundation), Alexander Müllenbach (former director of the International Summer Academy), Hannes Eichmann (ORF - former director of the Ö1 Music Editorial Office Salzburg), Vice-Rector Hannfried Lucke (director of the International Summer Academy Mozarteum) and Mozarteum Rector Elisabeth Gutjahr. The prizes are donated by the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg and presented by Elisabeth Gutjahr and Salzburg City Councilor Sabine Gabath. The most popular master classes were piano (343 participants + 16 gifted students), violin (177 + 20 gifted students), voice (121) and viola (51). Two thirds of the students were female, and the average age was around 21. The countries of origin did not have to be named for reasons of data protection - among the nationalities indicated, Japan (102), Germany (87), China (78), South Korea (68), Taiwan (56), Italy (55) as well as Austria (51) and the USA (32) were most strongly represented. The 2019 laureates will be announced following the final Laureate Selection Academy on August 21 (6 p.m., Solitaire). 2019 Prize Winners: Grigoris Ioannou (m/24), Greece, piano master class Aquiles Delle Vigne Kimberly E. Milton (w/33), USA, mezzo-soprano Master Class John Thomasson Wolfgang Matthias Schnorbusch (m/31), Germany, viola Master Class Andreas Willwohl Haruna Shinoyama (w/25), Japan, violin Master Class Sergiu Schwartz/Pierre Amoyal Jolana Slavíková (w/28), Czech Republic, soprano Master Class Hedwig Fassbender Anastasia Yasko (w/28), Russia, piano Master Class Dina Yoffe Cunmo Yin (m/25), China, piano Master Class Andrea Bonatta Himari Yoshimura (w/8), Japan, violin Master Class Zakhar Bron

Five finalists competed for the coveted 20,000 euro The Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize 2022 (made up from 2021) at the Solitaire of the Mozarteum University yesterday (14 April). The evening's double winner was pianist Robert Bily, who enchanted both the high-calibre jury and the audience with a breathtaking interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata (Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major op. 53), Claude Debussy's Images I and Siegfried Thiele's Perpetuum Mobile.

Every year, the Ruhr Piano Festival honours artists whose life's work is closely connected to the festival with its prize. The duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen played their 17th concert at the Ruhr Piano Festival on 8 July 2023. The "desire for shared sound" characterises each of their performances, for which they often put together special programmes for the Piano Festival.

Application until 7 May: The competition was launched by the Mozarteum University in 2015 and is aimed at young musicians under the age of 23. It focuses on their virtuosity, their understanding and their interpretation of classical music. The orchestra of the competition is the Salzburg Chamber Soloists.

The U.S. pianist and organist Daniel Walter Chorzempa was university professor of organ at the University Mozarteum Salzburg from 1994 to 2013. He passed away in Florence on March 25, 2023.

Intensive one-week master classes with 53 renowned, top-class artists and teachers from the Mozarteum University and the international music industry, numerous public concerts and a colorful supporting program: from July 17 to August 12, the International Summer Academy will once again open its doors. It has evolved visually, but above all in terms of content.

After four intensive weeks with 520 participants from 51 nations, 51 master classes and 16 additional courses with a focus on musicians' health as well as around 60 public events, the International Summer Academy 2023 came to an end last week with much positive feedback. Twelve young artists were also awarded prizes of 1,000 euros each, sponsored by the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg.

On October 1, six new university professors, mezzo-soprano Zoryana Kushpler, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang, guitarist Andrea De Vitis, innovation researcher and computer scientist Christopher Lindinger, violist Muriel Razavi and violist Sào Soulez Larivière, began their work at the Mozarteum University. We warmly welcome them!

The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg finances an ensemble scholarship for students or graduates of the Mozarteum University - interdisciplinary concepts are welcome!

The Czech pianist Robert Bily, winner of The Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize 2022 and student of Pavel Gililov, wins the Alexis Gregory Vendome Piano Prize 2024, receiving the prize money of 30,000 dollars, and will also give several concerts in the United States and Europe.

The presentation concert of the scholarship holders of the newly created ensemble scholarship A (one-year) Start Up for Ensemble(s) took place in the impressive ambience of Schloss Leopoldskron at the beginning of April. In cooperation with "The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg", over 44.000 euros will be made available to students or graduates of the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

As part of the International Summer Academy and numerous masterclasses, the renowned American pianist, teacher, Mozart researcher and Harvard professor Robert Levin has been a regular guest at the Mozarteum University for many years. From May, he will take up his teaching position at the Department of Keyboard Instruments. We are very much looking forward to it!

Last Saturday, after four intensive weeks under the artistic direction of Hannfried Lucke, the International Summer Academy 2024 came to a very successful end with 55 masterclasses, 13 additional courses and 66 concerts. 550 participants from 53 nations (average age 21) were guests in Salzburg. Twelve up-and-coming artists were honoured and each received 1,000 euros in prize money donated by the City of Salzburg's Cultural Fund.

Judith Valerie Engel is an Austrian pianist, musicologist & feminist. After years of study in Salzburg, Helsinki and Vancouver, she is currently completing a PhD in Historical Musicology at Oxford University. She is a recipient of the Stone-Mallabar Doctoral Scholarship awarded by Oxford College Christ Church. She is also one of the ‘Public Scholars’ in the Public Scholars Initiative of the University of British Columbia. Both academically and artistically, her focus is on historical and contemporary women composers.

In autumn 2024, bass-baritone Lisandro Abadie, actress Hanna Binder, conductor Christiane Büttig, visual artist Annette Fauvel, guitarists Giuseppe Feola and Bozhana Pavlova, cultural and media scientist Paul Feigelfeld, composer Laure M. Hiendl, pianist Lei Meng, soprano Allison Oakes and violist German Tcakulov will take up their positions as university professors at the Mozarteum University. We are looking forward to the collaboration!