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News … Home News Coming up: Crossroads 2022 Coming up: Crossroads 2022 14.11.2022 News © Fabian Schober Skip page navigation Overview Admission free - for reservation Return to slider start From November 24 to 26, 2022, professional ensembles will meet young international composers of all ages and nationalities at Crossroads, the Contemporary Music Festival Salzburg. The only requirement is to study in Europe. In a "call for scores" they were invited to submit compositions. 16 composers were selected by the performing ensembles for the festival. All composers will be present at the performances. Works by Anton Lindström, Damian Gorandi, Luca Guidarini, Tianyu Zou, Chatori Shimizu, Evelyn Frosini, Jakob Böttcher, Siebe Thijs, Dustin Zorn, Omri Abram, Simon Bahr, Yoko Konishi, Afamia Al-Dayaa, Clément Pauvert, Joey Tan, Leonardo Damiani Organizing team Alexander Bauer, Achim Bornhöft, Silvija Čiuladytė, Marco Döttlinger, Matthias Leboucher, Marco Sala Technical direction: Jan Fredrich Institute for New Music Studio for Electronic Music Program 24.11, 20.00 (approx. 90 min.), Solitaire: Concert - NAMES ensemble (AT) 25.11, 5:30 p.m. (approx. 60 min.), Small Studio: Concert - String&Noise (AT) 25.11, 20.00 (approx. 90 min.), Solitär: Concert - Cantando Admont (AT) (works by students of the composition class of the Mozarteum University will be performed) 26.11, 5:30 p.m. (approx. 60 min.), Small Studio: Concert - Duo Santorsa-Pereyra (DE) 26.11, 8 p.m. (approx. 90 min.), Solitaire: Concert - Ensemble Chromoson (IT) Details about program, composers & ensembles (Opens in new tab)

Against oblivion: when Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) looked back on her extremely productive life of some 400 compositions two years before her death, she seemed skeptical: "I hope not to be forgotten."

From gathering atmospheric images to analyzing characters. From conception to craft: a conversation with set designer Yea Eun Hong about the process of designing the stage for Benjamin Britten's comic opera "Albert Herring".

7 string quartets with musicians from a total of 14 nations, including 14 people from South Korea as the strongest represented nation, will compete for the International Mozart Competition 2023 in the string quartet division from February 3 to 9, 2023. The program highlight is a work by a living composer.

News … Home News Ensemble sponsorship award to NAMES Ensemble sponsorship award to NAMES 12.12.2022 Awards & Successes © Fabian Schober The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation awards the two Ensemble Sponsorship Prizes '23 to the vocal ensemble Ekmeles from New York and the Salzburg-based New Art and Music Ensemble NAMES. The award will be presented for the third time in 2023 to outstanding young ensembles and is endowed with 75,000 euros each. (Press release of the Ernst Von Siemens Music Foundation) With the Ensemble Sponsorship Award, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation annually supports two outstanding young ensembles. The prize serves to further their artistic and structural development. This year, the American ensemble Ekmeles and NAMES from Austria prevailed from a large number of excellent applications from 16 countries. The decision was made by the Board of Trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, whose members include Intendant Ilona Schmiel, violinist Carolin Widmann, and composers Isabel Mundry and Enno Poppe. The prize was established in 2020 and will be awarded for the third time in 2023. The American ensemble Ekmeles is one of the few vocal ensembles in the world to focus on contemporary music. The New York singers* convince with a grandiose sound, outstanding precision and intonation, with which they master even the most difficult microtonal works. At the same time, Ekmeles strikes a good balance between new works and the repertoire of past decades. The New Art and Music Ensemble NAMES from Salzburg takes a multi-impulse approach. With eleven musicians from seven European countries, there is great cultural diversity. The ensemble builds bridges to other art forms such as performance, dance, visual arts and literature. As a democratically organized collective, NAMES has shaped its own unique style and aesthetic. For NAMES, the Ensemble Prize is "a huge opportunity to continue to engage with the things that inspire us and to create a sustainable space for our creativity," says Anna Lindenbaum, violinist of the ensemble. "It is great to see how each individual and we as an ensemble have developed over the last 8 years. The Ensemble Prize encourages us in our efforts to unite diverse artistic disciplines in one ensemble and to deal with transdisciplinary concepts. We are very happy about the possibility to continue with this and to accept new challenges again and again! ", emphasizes also  Marco Sala , clarinetist of the ensemble. NAMES will be heard on February 28, 2023 at the opening event of the 50th anniversary of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.  More details (Opens in new tab) Perhaps also interesting ... Payam Yazdani receives Boy-Gobert Prize 2025 9.12.2025 Payam Yazdani receives Boy-Gobert Prize 2025  The Boy Gobert Prize for young actors in the Hamburg theatre scene, worth €10,000, has been awarded to Payam Yazdani, a 2025 graduate of the Mozarteum University’s Thomas Bernhard Institute. We congratulate him on his success! Awards & Successes Awards & achievements (german only) 1.12.2025 Awards & achievements (german only)  Awards & Successes Honorary doctorates for Dame Janet Ritterman and Michael Worton 21.11.2025 Honorary doctorates for Dame Janet Ritterman and Michael Worton  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. Awards & Successes Awards of the Research Competition Mozarteum 2025 20.11.2025 Awards of the Research Competition Mozarteum 2025  This year's RCM Award Ceremony took place on 11 November 2025 in the Faistauer Hall. Senate Chair Christoph Lepschy opened the event and emphasised the guiding principle of the Research Competition Mozarteum: openness to all disciplines, fields of study, career levels and alumni. Since 2019, this internal research funding instrument has contributed to establishing a diverse research culture at the university. Awards & Successes

Coaching and support program of trans- and interdisciplinary projects of art students on the topics of art, sustainability & socio-ecological transformation

On March 10, 2022, project participants and interested parties met at the Spot On MozART Lounge in the Small Studio of the Mozarteum University. A cozy "come together" with films and an exhibition on the current Spot On MozART projects. We accompanied the event for you.

There was a lot of discussion, ideas were developed and new networks were formed: the Spot On MozART Workshop Days 2022 took place on May 6 and 7 at the Zistelalm on the Gaisberg and were dedicated to the topics of innovation, visualization, research and the Spot On Moment based on Mozart's music. We were there for you and accompanied the participants.

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