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Yvonne Wasserloos, university professor of musicology, has been awarded the International Grand Prize for Science & Research (worth €12,000) by the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg for her outstanding achievements as a researcher, including her work on ‘Music and Power – Dimension and Context’ and her research on the social, political and cultural significance of music – especially in connection with democracy and the culture of remembrance. Congratulations!

Nikita Buldyrski, actor and graduate of the Thomas Bernhard Institute, is honoured with the prestigious Alfred Kerr Actor Award. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding performance by a young actor in one of the ten productions at the Berlin Theatre Meeting. It is endowed with 5,000 euros in prize money and is awarded by the Alfred Kerr Foundation with the support of the Berliner Festspiele.

The Mozarteum University Salzburg mourns the loss of its former Deputy Chairman of the University Council, Prof. Heinrich Magometschnigg.

The Salzburg AG Art Prize in the field of visual arts for students at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, worth EUR 10,000 and awarded for the first time, goes to Lukas Stangl (born 1992, Austria). With the Salzburg AG Art Prize, Salzburg AG promotes artistic engagement with the theme of ‘energy’. Theme of the first edition: Data Whispers: Making the Invisible Visible – congratulations!

Anna Hechenblaickner (flute graduate of Bernhard Krabatsch) was awarded the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research's award of appreciation on November 21 in Vienna.

On 15 March 2023, the first event in a series of events organised by Salzburg's universities in cooperation with the Wissenstransferzentrum West (Knowledge Transfer Centre West) was dedicated to a hot topic: the impact of artificial intelligence on our everyday lives. The explosive nature of the topic and the fact that the discussion has arrived in the university context and in our society was demonstrated by the full Small Studio at the Mozarteum University.

Em. Univ.-Prof. of Composition

Even 80 years after the end of the war, they raise big questions about the value of life, the power of

Univ.-Prof. of Voice

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.

Based on "Bernarda Alba's House," Federico García Lorca's drama that has been performed most frequently around the world to this day, the 4th year Drama and Directing class, under the direction of Anja Herden, will deal in "¡Los Bernarrrdá's!" with being trapped, hysteria, fear of life, and the longing for freedom as a primal human drive, and will tell of people who are both victims and accomplices of their own oppression.

On 9 November, musicians from the Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, together with the Chamber Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Krakow, gave a concert at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music (ECMKP) in Lusławice, Poland, which was enthusiastically received.

Ziyu He was one of the youngest soloists in the Vienna Philharmonic when he made his debut at the Musikverein under Adam Fischer in 2017 at the age of just 18. The year before, he won both the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition, and in 2014 he was the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year. He is a violinist with the renowned Altenberg Trio.

After all, the ability to teach an instrument at music schools naturally opens up many professional opportunitiesAfter all, how are you supposed to perform dance in two square meters?After all, you have to make ends meet.Franziska Strohmayr grew up in Augsburg and came to Salzburg to study, where she still lives today after

Univ.-Prof. of Composition