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Em. Univ.-Prof. of Composition

Gertrud Fischbacher and her cooperation partner Marius Schebella (FH Salzburg) were awarded with the project "Nexus of Textile and Sound" at the annual funding program of the FWF for the development and opening up of the arts (PEEK)! They won the Research Competition Mozarteum (RCM) at the end of 2019, the PEEK application, which is based on intensive local cooperation with the FH Salzburg, is a further development of the RCM project.

It is with great sorrow that the Mozarteum University announces the passing of its former rector, Univ.-Prof. Reinhart von Gutzeit, who died on 11th July 2025 in Lucerne after a long illness, surrounded by his family.

The new Institute for Open Arts at the Mozarteum University, currently under construction, offers an inter-, trans- and nondisciplinary workspace. A conversation with Claudia Lehmann, who has headed the institute since March 1st.

The prestigious Herbert von Karajan Prize, worth a total of 50,000 euros, has been awarded for the 6th time this year as part of the Salzburg Easter Festival. The prize winner is, among others, the composer and conductor Oscar Jockel, who was featured in the celebrated production "Westbam meets Wagner".

Tracing the topicality of content and music: Under the leadership of the Forum Salzburger Volkskultur, a project was started to record the textual and musical variants of Silent Night! Holy Night!, which is jointly supervised by Wolfgang Dreier-Andres for the Salzburger Volksliedwerk and Thomas Hochradner of the Mozarteum University for the Silent Night Society.

With the founding of the SEM - Studio for New Music, the Mozarteum University has played a pioneering role in the field of computer music and creative work with new media in Austria since 1958. Today, it offers students a wide range of possibilities, from working with analog synthesizers to computer-based composition.

In the doctoral programme of the inter-university institution Wissenschaft & Kunst (W&K), doctoral students research and work closely networked at the interface of science and art.

Senior Lecturer in Guitar

Teacher of Guitar / Assistant of Eliot Fisk

The artist and art pedagogue Ao. Univ.-Prof. MMag. Bernhard Gwiggner has been awarded the 2025 Ars Docendi prize for teaching excellence by the Austrian state. The interdisciplinary cooperation "tradition2go: zwischen kultur und wahnsinn" ("between culture and madness") was a collaboration during the 2023/34 academic year between the Sculpture Class at the Mozarteum University and the Salzburg Museum. The project went hand in hand with the exhibition "Masks, Traditional Costumes, Cult Objects - 100 Years of Folk Culture" at the Salzburger Monatsschlössl Hellbrunn.

With an app accompanying the concert, the audience can vote en passant live on the program and find outThe first samples of the concept have already been seen at Fiumicino Airport in Rome, on the beach atabout the composers, the works and the musicians, an "Opera out of Opera" app was specially developedIt didn't take long before the spontaneous listeners were interactively in the middle of the concert

Peter Schreiner, Senior Lecturer for Photography & New Media at the Department of Fine Arts and Design, will be awarded the Annual Scholarship for Photography in 2023. The scholarship is awarded annually by the province of Salzburg and has been endowed with Euro 12,000 since 2023.

Ariane Haering is a sought-after solo-pianist and chamber musician with an international career. She has been a senior lecturer at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since autumn 2025.

The answers vary widely.Funded by the FWF through the #ConnectingMinds programme, the project combines local action with civicWithin the project, she focuses on the City of Salzburg’s climate and social policies and the opportunitiesexamines the climate futures developed by the co-researchers.

The biennial International Mozart Competition is one of the world's major music competitions. Since 1975, the focus has been on the work of the genius loci Mozart, whose work is constantly being rediscovered by the young generation of highly talented interpreters.