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Award-winning composer Sarah Nemtsov is one of the most sought-after musical voices of her generation. A conversation about her professorship at the Mozarteum University, her personal creative process, and one of her 2022 highlights.

At the Mozarteum University, artistic encounters and challenges are combined with art education and art university research. Highly talented students from all over the world dedicate themselves to developing and opening up the arts together with renowned teachers at the Salzburg and Innsbruck campuses.

Over 900 events a year, many of them free of charge: discover the exciting and diverse range of events offered by the Mozarteum University!

Univ.-Prof. of Composition

What is the sound and rhythm of a city? How do people meet in this or another place? Where do they feel free? How does urban architecture inscribe itself into our bodies? How do we walk in the city? What does the climate of a city feel like? How does the memory of a city work? And what happens when we relate our experiences with these questions in places as different as Hong Kong and Salzburg?

of works by Puccini, for example his ' Turandot ' or ' Madama Butterfly ' , both of which are also set

Goethe also speculated that his somber work, set in a "manifold, yet banal setting," would be "much clearer

La clemenza di Tito," a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, who was trained on Jean Racine, that has been set

The question of how the new comes into the world is a fascinating and equally complex one. The second panel discussion of the Salzburg University Development Impulses in cooperation with the Knowledge Transfer Centre West attempted to shed light on the creative processes that precede the emergence of the new with experts from various disciplines and fields.

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.

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.

The art and love of the viola led German Tcakulov from Vladikavkaz to St. Petersburg, on to Berlin, Munich, Karlsruhe and now to Salzburg, where he took up a professorship for viola on 1 October 2024.

Within the framework of the teacher training program in Visual Education, Innsbruck provides knowledge, skills and techniques for orienting oneself in a visual and digital world, for understanding it and for helping to shape it artistically.

Vincenzo Bellini's highly romantic bel canto opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi celebrates its premiere in the Max Schlereth Saal on 10 December under the direction of Alexander von Pfeil and musical direction of Gernot Sahler. A conversation with maestro Gernot Sahler about Bellini's inventiveness and the challenge of dealing with special stage situations.

The Department of Opera and Musical Theatre is a beacon with special charisma and appeal. Every year, two opera classes consisting of up to 15 highly talented students are prepared by renowned theatre makers for the high demands of an international opera career.