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Scientific: Music is always a testimony of its time, and a variety of approaches and methods are needed

Associate Professor of Elemental Music and Dance Education / Movement Education

Writer, literary and cultural scholar and university lecturer Thomas Ballhausen has been head of the Inter-University Centre for Science & Art since October 2023. A conversation about his new role at the "interface".

30 years of folk music studies and study programs at the University Mozarteum: Together with the Lucerne School of Music, teachers and students of the University Mozarteum go on a search for traces between yodel and yodel, tradition and new trends.

With the approval of research funding totalling 2.5 million euros from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the foundation has been laid for the development of a state-of-the-art X-Reality Lab - the digital centrepiece of the new Mozarteum University site at Kurgarten.

The warlike events of the last week shake the foundations of our confidence in a Europe of peace and coexistence of many nations and peoples.

Information on requirements for studying at the Mozarteum University, admission procedures, required language skills, application video & data protection, semester fees and preparation aids.

On 8 November 2025, at the closing dinner of the AEC Conference in the Carabinierisaal of the Residenz Salzburg – a gathering that brought together delegates from more than 120 music universities across Europe and beyond – the Mozarteum University awarded honorary doctorates to Dame Janet Ritterman and Professor Michael Worton. This marks only the second time in the university’s history that this distinction has been conferred: after Nikolaus Harnoncourt received the first honorary doctorate in 2008, it has now been bestowed on two individuals who have played a decisive role in shaping the Mozarteum’s research profile.

The publication "Auf dem Weg zur Kunstuniversität: das Kunsthochschul-Organisationsgesetz von 1970" ("On the Way to the Art University: the Art University Organization Act of 1970"), which appeared in August, documents for the first time comprehensively the historical course of the development of higher education in Austria's art universities.

Univ.-Prof. of Pedagogy / Art and Visual Practise

Mariia Tkachenko lived in Kyiv until March 2022, where she received singing and violin lessons as a child and has already appeared in several TV productions. Her acting studies at the I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television were interrupted by the war in Ukraine.

A.o. Univ.-Prof. of Sculpture / Art and Visual Practise