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No News. This year’s “Bella Musica” ensemble, the Mozarteum University’s touring group formed annually from specially selected musicians, has a special surprise in store for audiences on this year’s Italy tour, titled “Mozart meets Puccini.” Our long-standing partnership with the Mozarteum Foundation and exciting new collaborations with the Teatro del Giglio “Giacomo Puccini,” the Conservatorio “Luigi Boccherini,” and the Puccini Museum in Lucca mean that listeners will be treated to the sound of an original Mozart violin and Giacomo Puccini’s piano being played together in concert for the very first time. ContactIris Wagner Founded in 2017, the ensemble “Bella Musica” is made up of young musicians from the Mozarteum University and follows in the steps of Mozart by touring all over Europe. Musicians from Rome, Lucca, Vienna and Dresden come together to play music, working under the official title  “Ambassadors of the European Mozart Paths”. The initiative conveys a message of cultural exchange, dialogue and understanding that transcends national borders and shows impressively how the powerful music is as a force for forging connections in a time of social challenges. This attitude is also lived out through social responsibility – the ensemble has performed for patients at the Vatican’s hospital for children Bambin Gesù as well as in hospices and residential care homes, and given charity concerts in aid of  earthquake victims, those isolated as a result of the pandemic, and educational charities such as “Sanitansamble” in Nepal. This commitment to social causes was recognised in June 2025, when the ensemble was officially named by the Rotary District 1920 as a “Rotary Ambassador”– honouring their work in promoting humanity, friendship and understanding through music. The 2025 tour takes the ensemble to Italy, beginning in Lucca and moving on to the Chigiana Festival in Siena – where the Mozarteum University’s Baroque Summer Academy will be running concurrently – before they perform in Florence at the Basilica Santo Spirito, the favourite church of the new Pope Leo XIV. The next stop will be the Violin Museum in Cremona, followed by Milan (where the premiere of Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate took place), and ending with the ensemble’s first appearance in Brixen, at the Emperor’s Hall at the Hofburg, where Mozart performed in 1771. Like their predecessors, the Ensemble of 2025 will also makes their mark on the musical and cultural scene. The young violinist Ida Gillesberger (Mozarteum University Salzburg’ Pre-college, Class: Anneliese-Clara Gahl) will perform together with Fabrizio Datteri, a graduate of the Conservatorio “Luigi Boccherini”, on 1st September 2025 at 11.30am in the Puccini Museum in Lucca, where the two of them will play Mozart’s own violin and Puccini’s piano. This momentous occasion, which builds a bridge between Salzburg and Lucca on the initiative of the mayor of Lucca Mario Pardini, will be documented by both Austrian and Italian national television.   Mozart’s ViolinDr. Johannes Honsig-Erlenburg, President of the International Mozart Foundation, and Linus Klumpner, Director of the Salzburg Mozart Museums, will make a special trip to Lucca to deliver in person not only Mozart’s Viola, a North Italian instrument built around 1700, but also the Klotz Violin, built in the famous workshop of the luthier family Klotz, from Mittenwald in southern Germany. The Klotz violin was Mozart’s preferred instrument during the period he spent at the Court of the Prince Archbishop in Salzburg. It was during this period, 1773-1775, that he composed not only his five violin concertos (KV 207, 211, 216, 218, 219) but also his famous Sinfonia Concertante KV 364, which will also be performed in Lucca.Students of the Mozarteum University such as Marinus Kreidt (Class: Thomas Riebl), Moritz Defregger (Class: Lukas Hagen) and Laura Sophia Hummel (Class: Hagai Shaham) will thus have the opportunity to play two instruments that belonged to Mozart. Puccini's PianoThe Puccini piano, housed at the Puccini Museum in Lucca, is a valuable exhibit at the birthplace of the world famous composer Giacomo Puccini. The instrument was built by Steinway & Sons and was an essential partner for Puccini in his composition process; parts of his last opera “Turandot” are known to have been composed using this piano. The museum is also home to furniture and numerous personal items that belonged to the composer, which helps to recreate and bring to life the atmosphere of his childhood and youth. The piano itself is a central symbol for Puccini’s musical work and the connection with his home town, Lucca. The piano (Model B-211, Serial number 98606) was purchased by Giacomo Puccini in the spring of 1901. “For Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, the grand tour through Italy was essential for him as a young man. It played a significant role in his journey from child prodigy to great master and made a lasting impact on his creative output. This is explained by the rich musical history of the country hailed as the birthplace of opera. It is against this background that the International Mozart Foundation will accompany the Ensemble Bella Musica at selected concerts in Italy. It is in the spirit of the young genius that, 250 years after Wolfgang Amadé’s own journey to this city, a handful of exceptionally talented young musicians will be making his instruments ring out once again. It is moments such as these, where Mozart’s music is performed in a highly charged atmosphere, that fulfil the mission of the Mozarteum Foundation to ensure that the magic of the composer lives on by reaching and touching audiences throughout the world. This year will include an unexpected highlight, as instruments belonging to Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and Giacomo Puccini sound together for the very first time. It is an extraordinary way to bring together two giants of the opera world posthumously."Linus Klumpner, Director of the Mozart Museums A further highlight of the tour will be the world premiere of a symphony by the composer Marianna Bottini (1802–1858), a musician from Lucca who was admitted to the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna at the age of just 18 – 50 years after Mozart. The creative genius of Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s contemporary, will also be on display, in the year that marks the 200th anniversary of his death.“What I find so fascinating about Bella Musica is the level of enthusiasm with which young people are introduced to the music, life, influence and travels of Mozart. This grassroots cultural project at a European level truly mirrors the values of the Mozarteum University Salzburg. We are immensely grateful to all initiators, supporters and private sponsors for their valuable contribution and dedication to the cause.”Elisabeth Gutjahr, Rector of the Mozarteum University Salzburg The project “Bella Musica”, under the artistic direction of Stefan David Hummel, is a tribute to European cultural heritage that is based on respect, diversity and peace. In the current era of global tensions, the tour takes a stand for communication, solidarity, and a Europe that is built on dialogue and mutual appreciation.“Our mission, as Bella Musica, is to bring together people through music – across borders, cultures and generations. The spirit of Mozart inspires us to encourage young talent and to show them how music can give people strength and hope. We see our core values as respect, diversity and collaboration. By engaging in dialogue with others and using music as a common language, we are building bridges – for an open Europe and a vibrant community.”Stefan David Hummel, Initiator and Artistic Director Press conference: 1st September 2025, 11.30amPuccini Museum Lucca, Corte S. Lorenzo, 9, 55100 Lucca LU, ItalyPress representatives are kindly requested to register in advance by contacting: stefan_david.hummel@moz.ac.atTour dates:23.8.–4.9.2025: Rehearsal camp & concerts26.8.2025, 5.00pm, Charity Project: Hospiz Pia Casa, Lucca27.8.2025, 7.30pm, Charity Project: Villa Reale di Marlia, Lucca28.8.2025, 8.30pm, Charity Project: Basilica di Santo Spirito, Florence29.8.2025, 9.15pm, Chigiana International Festival, Teatro dei Rozzi, Siena31.8.2025, 11.00am, Basilica Santa Maria Forisportam, Lucca31.8.2025, 7.30pm, Villa Lucchese, Lucca1.9.2025, 8:30pm, Teatro di San Girolamo, Lucca2.9.2025, 9:00pm, Museo del Violino, Cremona3.9.2025, 9:0pm, Chiesa di Sant’Antonio Abate, Milan4.9.2025, 7:00pm, Kaisersaal Hofburg, Brixen Pressestimmen La Repubblica di Lucca, 5.3.2025:Collaborazione di eccellenza tra il Teatro del Giglio e l’Università Mozarteum di Salisburgo La Nazione (Lucca), 31.8.2025:Mozart incontra Puccini – Giovani talenti e grandi maestri La Nazione (Lucca), 2.9.2025:Puccini e Mozart, che magia – Concerto per Rai e tv austriaca con il pianoforte del Maestro e il violino di Amadeus La Nazione (Siena), 29.8.2025:Mozart e il concerto europeo – L’Ensemble in grande spolvero Il Tirreno (Lucca), 5.5.2025:Puccini e Mozart, gli immortali della musica capaci di unire la cultura di Lucca e Salisburgo Il Giornale, 2.9.2025:Mozart, Vivaldi, Salieri e la Bottini – Bella Musica in Sant’Antonio Abate Florence Daily News, 29.8.2025:Santo Spirito resonates with Mozart performed by young musicians Corriere Fiorentino, 31.8.2025:Mozart coi violini di Mozart(Ausführlicher Bericht über das Konzert und die historischen Instrumente) Lucca in Diretta, 5.5.2025:Protocollo d’intesa triennale fra Teatro del Giglio e Università Mozarteum di Salisburgo NoiTv, 5.5.2025:Puccini-Mozart: il Teatro del Giglio sigla l’intesa con la Mozarteum di Salisburgo Il Tempo / Cultura e Spettacolo (31.8.–1.9.2025):Un incontro tra Mozart e Puccini? Si può fare – Ed ecco che in scena arriva “La Bella Musica” Vivimilano.it, 3.9.2025:L’Ensemble "Bella Musica" in Sant’Antonio LA CITTA’ E GLI EVENTI (6.3.2025):Università „Mozarteum“ Gemellaggio musicale nel nome di Puccini LA NAZIONE (Lucca)Puccini e Mozart Concerto Magico Zu den Tourdaten 23.8.—4.9.2025 Mozart:Forum Bella Musica 2025  Young ambassadors of the European Mozart Routes on a concert tour in Italy, in the footsteps of W.A. Mozart. Concert Mediathek Skip slider Bella Musica 2025 Video Special 15.1.2026 Bella Musica 2025  Bella Musica 2024 Video Special 17.12.2024 Bella Musica 2024  Bella Musica 2023 Video Special 20.12.2023 Bella Musica 2023  Bella Musica 2022 Video Special 20.12.2022 Bella Musica 2022  Bella Musica 2021 Video Special 20.12.2021 Bella Musica 2021  Jump to slider start

Who owns the streets? Which streets and places do we need in Salzburg? And how can we get Salzburg moving in a playful way?

Creative approaches to sustainable mobility and new spaces in the city: On 7 November 2025, a workshop was held at the newly opened "House of Talents" that focused on innovative mobility solutions for the city of Salzburg. Taking Salzburg's Red Cross car park as an example, participants devised plans which took in to consideration space allocation, safety, climate protection and inclusion.

On 3rd and 17th December 2025, two workshops took place: ‘Unter dem Pflaster liegt der Strand’ (Under the pavement lies the beach) with Stephanie Müller and Klaus Erika Dietl (Mediendienst, Leistungshölle, Munich) and ‘WALDWERDEN’ (Becoming Forest) with Theresa Schütz (Vienna). Third year students from Bundesgymnasium Seekirchen and Lebenshilfe were invited to creatively explore the topic of urban mobility.

No News. Reflections on the mountain on inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration: A one-day workshop at Erentrudis Alm discussed ways for (new) transformative collaboration, provided a framework for exchange between researchers and stakeholders on ongoing and future projects at the interface of STEM and ART. A beautiful and inviting place, the right mix of science, art, city and country, and plenty of time to talk and do things together: Interdisciplinarity in Unexpected Places 2023 was all this and more.The research management had gathered 20 people from different disciplines represented at the house for a joint day with selected external participants on the Erentrudis Alm. Among them were Doris Fuschlberger, the digitisation officer of the Salzburg State Museums, Eva Kraxberger from Wissens:Stadt Sbg, Carmen Wageneder-Schmid from the MINT coordination office, Andre Zogholy from KU Linz, Stefan Gindl and Markus Tauber from RSA. The concerns and the future of Salzburg firmly in view and yet far enough away from it to get into joint thinking: Co-creation, inter- and transdisciplinarity, art and research, current cross-cutting issues but also research funding calls and strategies wanted to be shared, developed and possible future projects initiated across disciplinary boundaries. Driven by a great sense of community, and a genuine generosity to share one's expertise and experience, and with a desire to learn from each other, the day was enriching for all participants. There was a special focus on STEAM, culture tech and the digitisation agendas of a music and arts university - made possible by a mix of formats including short impulses (on interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral funding streams and the city's digitisation offensive, European funding lines and the SDGs as a cross-cutting issue of interdisciplinary collaboration), group work and cabin talks on current good-practice examples from the university. The richness and depth of the exchange was an expression of the good cooperation, the willingness to learn from and for each other and thus also representative of basic interdisciplinary qualities. In conclusion, all this became a "HOWTO?" - what does it take to get into interdisciplinary work? - To engage with other positions, to listen and ask questions, to find a common language in the process and to agree on (few but binding) rules of the game, and: to acknowledge the processual character and to give it enough time and space.  May the seriousness of the approach, but also the shared fun and lightness that characterised the time together at Erentrudisalm lead to many a deepened joint artistic and/or research collaboration! More about Research at Mozarteum University

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The collaborative greenhouse of the sculpture class combines botany and synthetics; in doing so, it aims to fuse natural processes such as growth with long-term toxic materials such as (micro/macro) plastic. In this work, the students address the theme of "nature:art" from a wide variety of perspectives. Thus, working groups have each focused on space, growth and object and united them in the common greenhouse.

Masks can be grotesque, sacred, mysterious, beautiful, terrifying, frightening and much more. They show and conceal at the same time. Masks have two sides. They oscillate between the inside and the outside - connecting and separating at the same time. They allow us to change roles, to role-play and are also a metaphor for our social role behaviour. Masks are an offer to change.

Students of the sculpture class of the Department of Fine Arts & Design take a contemporary look at objects from the collection in a co-operation with the Salzburg Museum on the occasion of the anniversary "100 Years of the Folklore Museum in the Monatsschlössl".

Exhibition by Anna* Marina Ernst, Melina Harting, Mirjam Kämmerer, Sophia Kraus, Leonie Lindinger and Vanessa Veljković from the Department of Fine Arts & Design at the Mozarteum University Salzburg at the Salzburger Kunstverein.

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Fine Arts & Design Salzburg … Home Study Departments Fine Arts & Design Salzburg Projects: Art Education Projects Art Education Find out more about studying Heute ist nichts passiert 19.5.2026 Heute ist nichts passiert  How is it that an exhibition which initially chose visual storytelling as its sole framework has ended up being titled, of all things, ‘Nothing Happened Today’? Student project nisten 15.4.2026 nisten  Nesting is a quiet, precise act that lies somewhere between instinct and material. Fragile structures emerge from saliva, fibres and time. The exhibition explores these structures. In printmaking works, the act of nest-building and the nest-builders themselves are interpreted, reproduced and transformed. Lines, layers and structures allude to processes of gathering, shaping and compacting. Student project Jamie Carter: Das Problem ist das Problem 30.11.2025 Jamie Carter: Das Problem ist das Problem  Student project Keine Mensa 20.12.2025 Keine Mensa  Student project Melanie Ematinger: PREMIUM-UNIFORM 12.2.2025 Melanie Ematinger: PREMIUM-UNIFORM  The "work in progress" exhibition format PREMIUM-UNIFORM will constantly change and develop. By sewing the existing old textiles, new fancy creations, unique objects, practical workwear and experimental works are constantly being created. These will be placed in the exhibition space for you to pick up at your leisure. Student project Dear Diary 1.5.2025 Dear Diary  Dear diary, dear studio, dear society! Painting students reflect on questions of individuality and self-conceptions as well as their entanglement and embedding in social contexts in dialogue with selected films (Caro diario, Synecdoche NY, Der Sammler und die Sammlerin...). Student project 2 years Drawing & Reflecting - DISPOSITION ACT 12.5.2025 2 years Drawing & Reflecting - DISPOSITION ACT  While artistic education was radically rethought in the 20th century, nude drawing as a teaching format has not been fundamentally reformed since the 19th century. As an integral part of the teaching program at contemporary art academies, it is largely continued and valued in its historical form or in close reference to it. Student project currently considering 5.12.2024 currently considering  Exhibition by Anna* Marina Ernst, Melina Harting, Mirjam Kämmerer, Sophia Kraus, Leonie Lindinger and Vanessa Veljković from the Department of Fine Arts & Design at the Mozarteum University Salzburg at the Salzburger Kunstverein. Student project We swarm for the hive 16.5.2024 We swarm for the hive  Student project Eva-Maria Schitter: Belegtes 12.12.2024 Eva-Maria Schitter: Belegtes  Student project tradition2go: between culture and madness 27.5.2024 tradition2go: between culture and madness  Students of the sculpture class of the Department of Fine Arts & Design take a contemporary look at objects from the collection in a co-operation with the Salzburg Museum on the occasion of the anniversary "100 Years of the Folklore Museum in the Monatsschlössl". Student project Plant Cube 1.4.2023 Plant Cube  The collaborative greenhouse of the sculpture class combines botany and synthetics; in doing so, it aims to fuse natural processes such as growth with long-term toxic materials such as (micro/macro) plastic. In this work, the students address the theme of "nature:art" from a wide variety of perspectives. Thus, working groups have each focused on space, growth and object and united them in the common greenhouse. Student project Stoffströme 16.6.2023 Stoffströme  Resources, waste and the afterlife of art: in the 2022/23 academic year, students in the sculpture class of the Visual Arts Education programme explored the broad topic of the relationship between nature and art. External curator Yorick Josua Berta provided content support for the resulting projects, which resulted in the exhibition ‘Material flows. Resources, Waste and the Afterlife of Art’ for the state gallery “Kunst im Traklhaus”. He expanded the works of our sculpture students with positions from Linz art students and renowned artists. Student project response ability 20.12.2023 response ability  Exhibition by Josefa Wiedemann, Toni Ofner, Maria Geiser, Vanessa Friedl, Melanie Forsthuber, and Clara Elixmann from the Department of Fine Arts & Design at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, held at the Salzburg Kunstverein. Student project