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The first winners of the 15th International Mozart Competition have been announced. The 1st prize in the string quartet category and the traditional special prize of the Mozarteum Foundation for the best interpretation of a string quartet by W. A. Mozart go to the Arete Quartet, the 2nd prize to the Affinity Quartet and the 3rd prize to the Eden Quartet.

Invitation for all students of the department (also with chamber music partners from other departments) to actively participate In the winter semester 2022/23, the Department of Wind & Percussion Instruments will start a pilot project and offer three public "Team Teaching Masterclasses" with two teachers of the department each during the academic year.

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.

News … Home News Great music at the princely court: concert in baroque polychoral style Great music at the princely court: concert in baroque polychoral style 25.04.2022 News Iris Wagner © Christian Schneider In cooperation with the DomQuartier Salzburg and the Johann Michael Haydn Society Salzburg, the Department of Early Music of the Mozarteum University dedicates itself to the two great court conductors of 17th century Salzburg: Andreas Hofer and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. Date 29 April at 19.00 DomQuartier Salzburg Andreas Hofer and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber are somewhat overshadowed today by W.A. Mozart and Michael Haydn. While Biber still enjoys a certain fame due to his virtuoso violin sonatas, Hofer, who came from the neighboring town of Bad Reichenhall, is hardly ever performed. This may be due, among other things, to the considerable difficulties of scoring the sacred works. Always conceived in surround sound for the four organ galleries in the cathedral, it requires eight outstanding vocal soloists. In addition, there is a baroque instrumentarium from high tines to baroque trombones to the insignium of prince-bishop power, the choir of virtuoso natural trumpets for at least four voices. This will require a large continuo of dulcian, violone, cello two theorbos, harpsichord and organ. On April 29 and May 1, two four-choir major works by Heinrich Iganz Franz Biber and Andreas Hofer can finally be heard again in concerts in Salzburg and Bad Reichenhall, including a CD presentation. Biber's "Vesperae á 32" are lush vesper settings with Dixit Dominus and Magnificat for 32 voices. Andreas Hofer contributes his equally expansive "Missa Archi Episcopalis." The solo Mozarteum vocalEnsemble will be joined by the Capella dell'halla and students from the Department of Early Music at the Mozarteum University. The concerts also mark the founding of the new "Andreas Hofer Society" based in Bad Reichenhall!   Program: Andreas Hofer (1629-1684), from 1679 Court Kapellmeister at the Salzburg Court Missa Archi Episcopalis Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704), from 1684 Court Kapellmeister at the Salzburg Court Laetatus sum Vesperæ à 32 Performers: Capella dell 'halla Students of the Department of Early Music Soloists* of the Oratorio Class Mozarteum vocalEnsemble Conductor: Jörn Andresen More News Christiaan Willemse wins Ö1 Talent Exchange Composition Prize 2025 4.6.2025 Christiaan Willemse wins Ö1 Talent Exchange Composition Prize 2025  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! Awards & Successes Masterclass for Voice with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli 27.5.2025 Masterclass for Voice with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli  The only voice teacher Cecilia Bartoli has ever had is her mother, the soprano Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni. We are delighted to announce that from 4 to 8 August 2025, professional singers of all voice types will have the unique opportunity to work personally with Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni on ‘fundamental principles of vocal technique - the basis of a long singing life’ in a masterclass as part of the International Summer Academy at Mozarteum University. Registration is open now. News Dreamy, gestural, interwoven, humorous - or a chaotic hustle and bustle 14.4.2025 Dreamy, gestural, interwoven, humorous - or a chaotic hustle and bustle  Tina Geroldinger, a young Austrian composer, and Maurycy Hartman, clarinettist and founding member of the Ensemble for Contemporary Music, in conversation about the new ensemble, opportunities and possibilities for contemporary music in the current music world and about special moments that arise when people engage intensively with each other musically. Interview Braver than before - Mariia Tkachenko 8.4.2025 Braver than before - Mariia Tkachenko  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. Alumnae & Alumni Stories

Raimonda Žiūkaitė's opera composition "Salt is My Heritage" was chosen as the Work of the Year in the category of stage works by the Composers' Union of Lithuania. The work was performed by Lidia Luciano (soprano), students of the Mozarteum University and the œnm under the direction of Félix Marest. The premiere took place on October 28, 2021, as part of the Crossroads Festival. It was directed by Giulia Giammona and the libretto was written by Franz Jäger.

Awards for excellent master theses 2020/2021 Since the academic year 2016/2017, the Mozarteum University has been awarding the "Prize for excellent master theses". This award recognizes outstanding theses of graduates who dedicate themselves to their chosen topics in an innovative, original, unusual or particularly sustainable way. The winners of the excellent master theses 2020/2021 are: Caroline Fritz (MA IGP Guitar - Classical): "Slavko Avsenik und seine Original Oberkrainer: Untersuchung von Herkunft und Einflüsse mit der Analyse ausgewählter Beispiele" (scientific work, supervisor: Franz Zaunschirm) Pavle Krstic (MA Piano Soloist Training - Concert): "Analyse als Mittel der Interpretation der Préludes op.28 von Chopin" (scientific work, supervisor: Barbara Dobretsberger) We congratulate you!

News … Home News International Music Theory Congress at the Mozarteum University International Music Theory Congress at the Mozarteum University 20.09.2022 News © GMTH The leading umbrella organization for music theory in Europe, the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH), meets at the Mozarteum University and addresses current issues. In addition to renowned speakers such as Robert Hatten (Austin/Texas), Otfried Büsing (Freiburg), Cosima Linke (Saarbrücken), Ulrich Kaiser (Munich), Christian Utz (Graz), and Martin Rohrmeier (Lausanne), who will present their latest work, students will also have the chance to present their projects.  GMTH Congress 2022: MODELS September 30 - October 2 Mozarteum University Music theory as a lively and inspiring subject Music is an artistic question or message, a mystery to be deciphered. Craftsmanship: How do you compose a sonata in the style of Viennese Classicism? Analytically: How can the mystery be traced? Historically: How did Mozart learn to compose and what can we learn from him? Scientific: Music is always a testimony of its time, and a variety of approaches and methods are needed to gain insight into it - what can these look like? These are the questions that the discipline of music theory addresses both within and outside its pedagogical sphere at a music university. The subject, which one might still know as a series of dry compulsory subjects, has properly moulted in the last two decades. It is open to artistic questions of all kinds and offers an extremely versatile approach to music with "diverse" answers, but also new questions. Music theory as a discipline thus builds bridges between musicology, research and musical practice, between pedagogy, historical as well as contemporary composition and improvisation.  It encompasses an enormously multifaceted and widespread canon of subjects that is needed at every music education institution. Not only do more than 200 participants from German-speaking and international countries prove that music theory is a lively, inspiring subject that is colorful and anything but dusty. The GMTH congress also shows that music theory is constantly reinventing itself artistically, scientifically, pedagogically and institutionally, questioning its methods and striving to integrate new media and modern technical developments such as Artificial (Artistic) Intelligence. Under the somewhat abstract theme of "Models" and self-deprecating subtitles, the event will feature lectures, workshops, panel discussions ("Battaglia"), presentations of new computer-based approaches ("Lab"), and even a master class. Leading international researchers will present their latest work and students will also have the opportunity to present their projects. The special feature of GMTH's topic selection is that everyone can apply anonymously with a presentation, whether students or international greats: The only thing that counts in the selection is the quality, not the name.   Public events presenting the impressive artistic results of music-theoretical work - the dates: The supporting program of this year's annual congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH) is intended to explore, in view of the congress theme "Models", the field of tension between composition as "historical syntax" and "real" composition. Where does composition begin, where is it "only" composition? Do both belong to art or is there such a thing as "mere craftsmanship"? Does a large transitional area exist, or can composition and composition be clearly separated? - Concert "Young Mozart" Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, 8 p.m., Solitär, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, Mirabellplatz 1, admission free Do you recognize a piece by Mozart among works by music theory students of the Mozarteum and other music universities? Under the title "Young Mozart", students present their own works composed in the classical style of music of the middle (and late) 18th century. Mixed in will be an original composition by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. During the concert, the audience is allowed to vote via app which of the pieces is the original one. The "resolution" will only take place at the end of the evening… - Keynote "Models in New Music" Saturday, 1.10.22, 9.30-11.00 a.m., Solitär, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, Mirabellplatz 1, admission free The keynote consists of two impulse lectures on typical turns and models in new (post-tonal) music. This will be followed by a discussion between the panel and the audience. - "Improvisation Competition and Award Ceremony" Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and award ceremony 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, Mirabellplatz 1, admission free Every year, the GMTH hosts an artistic competition to promote young talent for students. This year it is dedicated to the theme of improvisation. The final round and the award ceremony will take place live during the congress. Similar to the concerts of the supporting program, the contributions move in an open spectrum between style-bound and "artistic freedom". - Concert "Between style-bound composing and avant-garde" Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, 8 p.m., Solitär, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, Mirabellplatz 1, free admission This concert offers you several opportunities to approach the questions posed at the beginning with a listening, curious, critical ear. Five composers and music theorists employed at the Mozarteum will present you with compositions that could not be more different. The above-mentioned events can be attended with free admission. Registration is required for participation in the other events of the congress: https://www.gmth.de/veranstaltungen/jahreskongress/anmeldung.aspx To the entire program (Opens in new tab)

Award-winning composer Sarah Nemtsov is one of the most sought-after musical voices of her generation. A conversation about her professorship at the Mozarteum University, her personal creative process, and one of her 2022 highlights.

The Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize of the Mozarteum University was offered for the first time in 2019 and annually honors a student personality who knows how to convince with musical creative power, poetry and a unique charisma. The sponsor of the highly endowed award (20,000 euros) is the successful British businessman and philanthropist Sir Ian Stoutzker, who founded the organization Live Music Now together with Yehudi Menuhin in 1977.

Inspired by the polyartist Bob Dylan and his approaches of appropriation and transformation, nine artistic-explorative teams of two from the Mozarteum University were on the road in South Africa, the US, Mexico, Europe and Latin America during the first half of 2022. The results are nine art projects that will be premiered on October 14 and 15 as part of Jazz & The City, accompanied by a symposium "Inspired by ... commemorating 60 Years of Bob Dylan.".

On October 11, 2022, Rector Prof.in Elisabeth Gutjahr was appointed to the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ambassador of the Republic of France, Gilles Pécout, for her commitment to culture and science.

The Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sport (BMKÖS) recently announced the winners of the Austrian Art Award 2022, each endowed with 15,000 euros - Johannes Maria Staud receives the Art Award in the category of music!

For 15 years, the Mozarteum University has been cooperating with the Tyrolean State Conservatory in the field of music school teacher training. In 2021/22, the offer in Innsbruck will be expanded to include the study profile "Jazz/Pop" in the Bachelor's program IGP and the Master's program "Making Music in Diversity Contexts".

The rediscovery and revival of (choral) works of the Baroque are matters close to the heart of Jörn Hinnerk Andresen, who has been Professor of Choral Conducting at the Mozarteum University since fall 2019.

News … Home News Review ARCO 2021 That was ARCO 2021! 19.07.2021 News © Universität Mozarteum That was ARCO - Art, Research & Creation Opus 2021! The bi-national academy ARCO is dedicated to musical creation in the field of contemporary composition / interpretation and is a cooperation between the University Mozarteum Salzburg and gmem CNCM marseille as well as the French Ensemble Multilatérale, Les Métaboles and TANA Quartet. This second edition of the festival took place in Marseille from July 8 to 17, organized by G.M.E.M. - Centre National de Création Musicale. Twelve young composers* from all over the world participated, as well as two student string quartets and an assistant conductor. The coaches were Elisabeth Gutjahr, Johannes Maria Staud, Henry Fourès, Christian Sebille, Yann Robin and Eva Reiter.   Next year at the University Mozarteum Salzburg!  More about ARCO Skip slider © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum © Universität Mozarteum Jump to slider start

Since the 2016/2017 academic year, the Mozarteum University has been awarding the "Prize for Excellent Master's Theses", which recognizes outstanding theses by graduates who address their chosen topics in an innovative, original, unusual or particularly sustainably relevant way.