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The Ö1 Talent Scholarship for Fine Arts in the amount of 10,000 euros, provided by Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, is being offered by Ö1 for the 17th time this year. The prize serves to promote young talent among students at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Art and Design Linz, the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the University of Art and Design Graz. A special prize on the theme of "Solidarity" is also awarded.

The University Mozarteum lives a culture of sustainability and is guided by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

And the winner is... The university's internal Research Competition Mozarteum (RCM) took place for the 6th time in 2024 and has established itself as a fixed part of the university's annual schedule. On December 3, the best submissions were honored at the Award Ceremony with the involvement of the international RCM jury.

The Ö1 Talent Scholarship for Visual Arts, worth €10,000, is provided by Wiener Städtischer Versicherungsverein. The award is intended to support emerging talent among students at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Art and Design Linz, the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the University of Art and Design Graz.

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.

"What qualities must a person possess in order to dominate both dramaturgically and vocally in an opera?" and "What must a man of mature age look like who is in close relationships with a crazy old lady, a young girl and a doctor at the same time?"

Vincenzo Bellini's highly romantic bel canto opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi celebrates its premiere in the Max Schlereth Saal on 10 December under the direction of Alexander von Pfeil and musical direction of Gernot Sahler. A conversation with maestro Gernot Sahler about Bellini's inventiveness and the challenge of dealing with special stage situations.

The annual conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology will take place at the Mozarteum University from 17-19 October 2024. It will focus on and discuss music-related phenomena that are related to ideas of democracy and democratic principles.

The Department of Musicology deals, among other things, with the history of European music from the Middle Ages to the present and offers courses in European folk music, non-European music and church music, as well as cultural studies questions about music.

As thought leaders of social development, universities are particularly challenged to live up to their pioneering role with regard to sustainable development. A conversation with Maria Kalleitner-Huber, Head of the Department for Sustainability at the Mozarteum University, about potentials and challenges at an (art) university.

With the new building of the Mozarteum University at the Kurgarten (UMAK), the city of Salzburg, the cultural area around the Mirabell Gardens and the Paracelsus Baths get a new player and neighbor. The official laying of the foundation stone on February 27, 2023 at 11 a.m. initiated the implementation of a future-oriented project that invests in the university education and research location Salzburg, in the networking of science and art and in Salzburg's core competence in the field of culture.

Members (alphabetical) Term of Office 1.10.2025–30.9.2028 (alphabetical order) University professors

2025 offers countless opportunities to look back on the past 80 years. The Second World War ended in Europe on 8 May 1945 with “Liberation Day,” marked by Germany’s unconditional surrender and the final collapse of the Nazi regime. In the months leading up to this, Allied forces had liberated the concentration camps.

Personal ambition, egomania and sexuality as an instrument of power: Claudio Monteverdi's (1567-1643) "L'incoronazione di Poppea" is as topical as ever, even 380 years after it was written. A conversation with Gernot Sahler, the musical director of the opera production.