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The two years in Berlin under Claudio Abbado were a paradise for me.It's essential for me to actively live music to see where musical trends are going.Today, sports are an important balance for me. Sports make me more efficient and resilient.For me, it's a reference to Leopold Mozart, whose grave I could look at from the balcony of my shared

The flutist and instrumental music teacher Sofiia Musina came to Salzburg to study at the Mozarteum University in April 2022. From 2017 to 2022, she studied at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in Ukraine and obtained a Master's degree in ‘Master of Musical Art. Educational and Professional Programme: Musical Art’. She wrote her master's thesis on the Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk.

These subjects are of central importance to me.The instrumental lessons, the individual lessons and the voice training were important for me.As already mentioned, the interdisciplinary projects played a special role for me.For me, it is a great playing field to live out my own creativity and enthusiasm.

For me it was a very important time because I learned a lot.I already knew then that these roles were definitely too early for me.I have an agency in Berlin that also does all the bureaucratic work for me.For me personally, everything is still up in the air.

The University Council of the Mozarteum University for the functional period 2023 to 2028 is now complete. Thomas Rietschel, M.A. and Sarah Wedl-Wilson, MA (Cantab) were elected by the Senate of the Mozarteum University. The Federal Ministry of Science and Research appointed Mag.a Silvia Grünberger and Univ.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Rosa Reitsamer to the board. The four nominated members elected Em. o. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Karlheinz Töchterle as the fifth member, who was also elected chairman of the collegial body in May. Rosa Reitsamer was elected as vice-chairman.

I have found that it is good for me to focus on several things, as it keeps me mentally agile.All the influences, for example from jazz and pop, enrich me in my musical work.What was new for me was the creation of a work during rehearsals.For me, it would have been helpful to learn how to apply for funding and market myself while I was still

An applicant in a wheelchair, with physical and speech impairments, wishes to study acting. Doubts among the teaching staff, uncertainty about how to interact with him, organisational hurdles – and yet the commitment not to judge too hastily, but to look more closely: at his enthusiasm for acting, his spontaneity, his ability to work in a group, and his sense of humour.

In this respect, this idea also fascinates me, yes.Yes, and then there's me.for them.Dance for me has never been decorative or athletic, although at the same time it is always athletic because

Artistically, not much has changed for me.Of course, my exhibitions could be canceled in September, but then the world won't collapse for me eitherme.Here and there stories are also inspirations for me - I am a collector.

Judith Valerie Engel is an Austrian pianist, musicologist & feminist. After years of study in Salzburg, Helsinki and Vancouver, she is currently completing a PhD in Historical Musicology at Oxford University. She is a recipient of the Stone-Mallabar Doctoral Scholarship awarded by Oxford College Christ Church. She is also one of the ‘Public Scholars’ in the Public Scholars Initiative of the University of British Columbia. Both academically and artistically, her focus is on historical and contemporary women composers.

Christian Thielemann will kick off his teaching career as a university professor of orchestral conducting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with an inaugural concert on 10 October in Salzburg Cathedral. A conversation about passing on experience, serenity – and why young musicians should take their time.

News … Home News European Design Award for poster for the 2022 tour European Design Award for posterfor the 2022 tour 01.07.2022 Awards & Successes The European Design Awards have been presented annuallyLukas Stangl wins the Salzburg AG Art Prize 2025  The Salzburg AG Art Prize in the field of visual arts forstudents at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, worth EUR 10,000 and awarded for the first time, goes

How did you actually prepare for such auditions?My teachers Horiana Brănișteanu and Wolfgang Holzmair prepared me well, taught me inner strength andFor me it was a very good time at the Mozarteum University.It already gave me a starting advantage over others.

Teaching has carried me through this time.For me personally, adjusting to the new daily rhythm and accepting that it just wasn't possible.It helped me to accept the situation then. But it took quite a long time.For me, streaming and all the online concerts are not an alternative.

Univ.-Prof. of Chamber Music

On 23 June, the Opera Studies Department at the Mozarteum University Salzburg will celebrate the world premiere of Agamemnon (Musical Director: Gernot Sahler; Director: Alexander von Pfeil). The commissioned work was created by the young Slovenian composer Vid Ožbolt, who is currently studying composition with Sarah Nemtsov. In a conversation with the composer and with set and costume designer Laura Trilsam, a student in the Department of Scenography, we take a look behind the scenes and at the creative process behind the production.