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The harpist Isla Biffin, a Master's student at the Mozarteum University, has been awarded the 2024/25 annual scholarship from the Fondation Armand & Nicky Delvaux under the patronage of the Fondation de Luxembourg for her outstanding academic achievements. The scholarship is endowed with 20,000 euros. Our warmest congratulations!

Following on from the BioSphere & TechnoSphere 1 conference (Salzburg 2025), the year's conferences aims to place a particular emphasis on issues relating to emotion and the history of emotions. In interdisciplinary research on emotions, emotion and affect are sometimes strictly distinguished conceptually: emotions are understood as cognitive-intentional, communicative, socially shaped and thus historically changeable practices. By contrast, affects are understood as pre-conscious, bodily and instinctive reactions.

The event takes place in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival.The prizes are donated by the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg.The teachers are among the best in the world and the students came from all over the world, which madeThe program and the prize winners will be announced shortly before the concert due to the last third

Applications for the October 2026 intake will be accepted starting in February. The Mozarteum University Salzburg is expanding its range of courses to include the international Master's programme in Immersive Arts & Digital Narratives. The English-language, artistically and scientifically oriented programme will start in 2026 and is aimed at artists and practitioners from all artistic and scientific disciplines who wish to explore narrative forms, artistic practice and new technologies.

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The New Art and Music Ensemble NAMES recently received the ensemble sponsorship award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, endowed with 70,000 euros. A conversation with Anna Lindenbaum, violinist and founding member of NAMES.

We look with horror at the latest developments in Hungary's cultural and educational landscape: a government-appointed board of trustees has taken over the governing powers of the Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) and abolished the university's autonomy.

Im Zuge der Aufarbeitung konnte die über 20.000 Briefe umfassende Korrespondenz erfasst werden. Ferner wurden alle vorhandenen Autographen des Komponisten sowie seine gesamte wissenschaftliche Bibliothek katalogisiert. Darüber hinaus wurden Aufbauarbeiten an einer digitalen Mediendatenbank zur Salzburger Musik gestartet. Im Zuge dieser Arbeiten konnte die systematische Digitalisierung aller relevanten Bestände des Tonbandarchivs vollendet werden. Die aktuellen Aufgaben zielen einerseits auf den physischen Erhalt der Jahrzehnte alten Bestände ab und andererseits auf die Aufarbeitung von rund 40 Regalmetern an bislang nur grob indizierten diversen Restbeständen, die vorrangig Arbeitsmaterial Paumgartners, aber auch vereinzelt Briefe, Kompositionen, Autographe, Notendrucke, Tonträger und Bücher enthalten. Ferner soll der Aufbau der digitalen Mediendatenbank fortgesetzt werden. Werkvertragsnehmerinnen: Anja Arend und Sonja Majkowsky. Projektleitung: Dominik Šedivý.

The Mozarteum University congratulates its alumna Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin on receiving the Grand Art Prize of the State of Salzburg 2024! With this award, which is being presented to a female composer for the first time this year, the State of Salzburg is sending a strong signal in favour of the importance and creativity of women in music. The Grand Art Prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded annually alternately in the fields of visual arts, literature, music and performing arts.

Although cultural life in various Nazi-occupied countries manifested distinctive differences in outlook between 1939 and 1945, partially accountable to specific national traditions and their historical and ideological relationship to German music and the political situation, one factor that appears to bind all musical activity in these areas is the consistent presence of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.

The mission of the Erasmus+ programme is to promote mobility and international cooperation in the areaa new level with the founding of the Salzburg Festival in the 20th century.The University Mozarteum Salzburg aims to fulfill the goals of the new programme by taking the followingUniversity Salzburg set itself the following goals: Increasing the number of regular students enrolled

Raimonda Žiūkaitė's opera composition "Salt is My Heritage" was chosen as the Work of the Year in the category of stage works by the Composers' Union of Lithuania. The work was performed by Lidia Luciano (soprano), students of the Mozarteum University and the œnm under the direction of Félix Marest. The premiere took place on October 28, 2021, as part of the Crossroads Festival. It was directed by Giulia Giammona and the libretto was written by Franz Jäger.

Steindl She was the first female professor of piano chamber music in the history of the Mozarteum Universitythe namesake of a festival format dedicated for the first time to the compositional work of women throughthe history of the Mozarteum," says Biliana Tzinlikova, initiator of the first Erika Frieser ChamberUnder the motto "Wegbereiterinnen" is the program of the third concert.

Pianist Charmaine Yang, a master's student at the Mozarteum University, has been awarded the 2025/26 annual scholarship from the Fondation Armand & Nicky Delvaux, under the patronage of the Fondation de Luxembourg, for her outstanding academic achievements. The scholarship is worth €20,000. Congratulations!

The Rectorate, the Senate and the SOMA – School of Music and Arts Education at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg welcome, in principle, efforts to further develop teacher training in Austria. However, from the perspective of an arts university, the present draft proposal for the establishment of a ‘School of Education’ raises questions regarding content, structure and education policy, particularly with regard to the professionalisation of teachers in the arts subjects

At the Department of Scenography, under the direction of the filmmaker and video artist Alexander du Prel, numerous animated films have been created at the Mozarteum University. The special feature: classical animation techniques are combined with digital recording techniques, the individual images are drawn individually on paper in analog form and then digitally stitched together, so that the films retain the charm of traditional animation. There is no other university or college in the German-speaking world that still works with this technique.