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Florentine Klepper has been Professor of Music Drama (scenic) at the Department of Opera & Music Theatre since the summer semester 2024. In the interview, she provides insights into her working methods, previous and ongoing projects and shares her thoughts on the various facets of music theatre.

4th November 2025 sees the Mozarteum University hosting an SDGs Game Session - open to members of all Salzburg's universities.

Singing brings people together – even online. In the ERASMUS+ research project ‘Choir@Home’, the Mozarteum University Salzburg (Prof. Dr. Heike Henning), in collaboration with the University of Liechtenstein (Dr. Janine Hacker) and Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Dr. Alexander Carôt), investigated how singing together can take place in virtual spaces and be reimagined.

6 years of the Mozarteum Research Competition: Since 2019, the Mozarteum University's research management has awarded an annual prize for artistic, scientific and scholarly research projects. Director Eugen Banauch takes stock.

As part of the Salzkammergut Capital of Culture 2024, the Lehár Theatre in Bad Ischl, in cooperation with the Mozarteum University and the Lehár Festival, will be the venue for a short operetta festival that aims to revive the operetta condemned by the National Socialists. The aim: short, topical, critical.

The Department of Early Music brings together the diverse competencies and the lively character of early music and its performance practice in an interdisciplinary way. The goal is a qualification that takes into account both personal inclinations and professional perspectives.

The Senate of the Mozarteum University joins the protests against a closure of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra with all vehemence. The RSO Vienna forms an indispensable building block of the Austrian cultural scene and functions especially and above all in the field of new music as an important commissioner and premiere performer.

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’.

2020 marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of Carl Orff (10.7.1895-29.3.1982). His stage work "Carmina Burana" is internationally known as well as his approach to music education and the percussion instruments named after him. His concept of elementary music is about initiating creative music making from the beginning and thinking musical learning from improvisation.

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.

On July 16, this year's edition of the top-class French-Austrian Academy of Composition came to a successful close in Marseille with four concerts. For the first time, the prize winners of the International Mozart Competition were invited to Marseille and performed in the concerts.

Invitation for all students of the department (also with chamber music partners from other departments) to actively participate In the winter semester 2022/23, the Department of Wind & Percussion Instruments will start a pilot project and offer three public "Team Teaching Masterclasses" with two teachers of the department each during the academic year.

For his artistic-music pedagogical project "voice & piano" Reinhard Blum, lecturer at the Department of Music Education Innsbruck, was nominated together with Christian Kraler (University of Innsbruck) for the shortlist of the Ars Docendi State Award for Excellent Teaching 2019 in the category "Research-related or art-guided teaching".

Every year, the Mozarteum University welcomes around 1,000 young musicians from all over the world to the festival city of Salzburg and offers more than 80 master classes in composition, conducting, voice, piano, guitar and classical orchestral instruments, as well as an orchestra academy with outstanding teachers.

The KinderUNI Salzburg returns this year during the summer holidays and is organised by the PLUS together with the University Mozarteum Salzburg for 8 to 12 year olds under the motto "Marveling together" various formats.