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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.

Writer, literary and cultural scholar and university lecturer Thomas Ballhausen has been head of the Inter-University Centre for Science & Art since October 2023. A conversation about his new role at the "interface".

Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Polaschek was a guest at the Mozarteum University on Tuesday, August 8, 2023 and congratulated students on their various engagements at the Salzburg Festival. In a conversation lasting just under an hour, the students told how their engagements came about and why the Salzburg Festival can be an important stage for the future.

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.

Julia Maria Eckes, Anastasia Fedorenko and Anna-Maria Husca are about to complete their Master's degree in Opera & Music Theatre at the Mozarteum University. In this interview, they give us an insight into their everyday life as students and let us in on the rehearsal process for the opera ‘Medusa / Giuditta’.

Meral Guneyman is a versatile classical musician, with numerous releases, who is comfortable in both pop and jazz music, has transcribed many original works and is also an enthusiastic arranger and improviser. Her ability to move between classical and jazz with lightning speed and conviction is a rarity. In 2021, her arrangements of classic David Bowie songs were presented for the first time on ‘Steinway-Spirio’ - a high-resolution self-playing system of the highest quality.

Here, students at the Innbruck location can download all necessary forms for registration & deregistration from studies, for doctoral studies and theses, as well as study and course fees.

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.

That was very important to me.The craftsmanship is very important to me.A single technique would quickly become too boring for me (laughs).A few spaces approached me, so I was lucky (laughs).

These subjects are of central importance to me.What defines me as a person? What is my social interaction ability, my expression?I was lucky enough to be able to take a lot with me.For me, it is a great playing field to live out my own creativity and enthusiasm.

Maria Wengler Eva Lechner - Aunt Martha "After Aunt Martha's passing, all her textile treasures went to meSpecial fascination for me were the dirndl fabrics she had hoarded in her flat. she had hoarded in herAunt Martha also left me two needlework textbooks from 1971 and a needlework book from the library.

I studied in Salzburg with Michael Kofler and he wasn't much older than me.He, however, a few years before me.The two years in Berlin under Claudio Abbado were a paradise for me.Today, sports are an important balance for me. Sports make me more efficient and resilient.

An applicant in a wheelchair, with physical and speech impairments, wishes to study acting. Doubts among the teaching staff, uncertainty about how to interact with him, organisational hurdles – and yet the commitment not to judge too hastily, but to look more closely: at his enthusiasm for acting, his spontaneity, his ability to work in a group, and his sense of humour.

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.

Christian Thielemann will kick off his teaching career as a university professor of orchestral conducting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with an inaugural concert on 10 October in Salzburg Cathedral. A conversation about passing on experience, serenity – and why young musicians should take their time.

I have found that it is good for me to focus on several things, as it keeps me mentally agile.Constantly stepping outside my own comfort zone is very important to me.All the influences, for example from jazz and pop, enrich me in my musical work.What was new for me was the creation of a work during rehearsals.