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The Theodor Körner Fund supports young scientists and artists with the Theodor Körner Sponsorship Award, which is endowed with 5,000 euros. It is awarded for outstanding projects, provides direct support to the winners and is at their free disposal. Two Theodor Körner Prizes go to graduates of the Mozarteum: musician Alexander Bauer and writer Anna-Maria Stadler. Congratulations!

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.

Mariia Tkachenko lived in Kyiv until March 2022, where she received singing and violin lessons as a child and has already appeared in several TV productions. Her acting studies at the I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television were interrupted by the war in Ukraine.

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.

The only voice teacher Cecilia Bartoli has ever had is her mother, the soprano Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni. We are delighted to announce that from 4 to 8 August 2025, professional singers of all voice types will have the unique opportunity to work personally with Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni on ‘fundamental principles of vocal technique - the basis of a long singing life’ in a masterclass as part of the International Summer Academy at Mozarteum University. Registration is open now.

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.

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