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His ‘unconditional devotion and love’ for music, as his colleague Howard Arman aptly put it, will always be remembered and continue to inspire the Mozarteum University. Laurence Traiger passed away on 18 October 2024 at the age of 68.

The Department of Musical Ethnology was founded in 1988 on the initiative of the music educator Josef Sulz at the University Mozarteum, Innsbruck location. It is the first and only university research institution in Western Austria and the EU region Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino that deals primarily with ethnomusicology / folk music research.

Teacher of Recorder

The Ö1 Composition Prize 2025, endowed with 10,000 euros, goes to the young composer Christiaan Willemse. He is studying composition in the postgraduate programme with Johannes Maria Staud at the Mozarteum University and impressed the jury with his personal and technically advanced works and compositional flair - congratulations!

Keyboard Studies Department Vocal Studies Department Brass, Wind & Percussion Studies Department Early MusicDepartment Composition & Music Theory Study concerts January 09.01.2023 | 16:00 Study concert pianochamber music Students of the chamber music classes Bösendorfer Hall, Mozarteum University 29.01.2023| 11:00 Study concert chamber music Students of the chamber music classes Bösendorfersaal, University

Music in England in the XVII and XVIII century - The Department of Early Music presents the traditional Baroque Night with a series of five concerts in one evening.

Lecturer

Whether contemporary composition, international summer courses or chamber music: Here you will find all festivals and academy of the Mozarteum University.

Senior Lecturer for Composition & Aural Training

The Tyrolean State Prize for Art, worth €14,000, goes to Johannes Maria Staud, a composer born in Innsbruck and professor of composition at the Mozarteum University. The jury unanimously agreed that Staud is one of Austria's most important contemporary composers. We send our warmest congratulations!

Music and Sound Beyond the Human: This conference aims to contribute to this ongoing development, and to put special emphasis on the ethical and political dimensions that come into play in regard of other-than-human creativity and aesthetics. Submissions from all musicological (sub-)disciplines are welcome, as well as from the music-related domains in neighboring scholarly and scientific disciplines and in interdisciplinary fields like human-animal studies, critical animal studies, critical plant studies, multispecies ethnography, and AI music studies.

The latest volume in the publication series "klang-reden" by the Institute for the History of Musical Reception and Interpretation is a plea for empirical repertoire research - and opens up new perspectives on Mozart.

Univ.-Prof. of Recorder

Senior Lecturer / Deputy Head of Mozart:Forum