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Festivals & Academies … Home Festivals & Academies ORA Early Music Festival ORA Originalklang-Festival Skip page navigation Overview Return to slider start At the ORA Early Music Festival, hosted by the Mozarteum University, original sound meets groundbreaking compositions from across five centuries, as well as improvisation, world premieres and musical installations. The festival focuses on the synergetic bridging of the gap between early and new(est) music and celebrates interdisciplinarity. Department of Early MusicInstitute for New MusicDepartment of Brass, Wind & Percussion Studies   ORA celebrated its premiere in 2024 on Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday, and what better way to celebrate him than making him the star of the show. The opening day in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation combined music by the great master with contemporary compositions based on his works. The second concert of the evening was also a novelty: for the first time, the Mozarteum University Symphonic Wind Band, the Department of Early Music and the Institute of New Music will collaborate to stage a concert together under the direction of Andreas Hofmeir, which will also be dedicated entirely to Johann Sebastian Bach. Programme 2024 6.11.2025 07:30 pm Großer Saal ORA Early Music Festival ORA: Die Tageszeiten  Auf dem Programm stehen das Flötenkonzert „La Notte“ von Vivaldi, die Kantate „Der Morgen“ von Teleman, Haydns Sinfonie „Le Midi“ und Auszüge aus Bachs Kantate „Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden“. Concert · Tickets (Opens in new tab) 7.11.2025 06:00 pm Extern ORA Early Music Festival ORA: Die Jahreszeiten  (Ort: Rittersaal, Residenz Salzburg) Ein klingendes Panorama der Jahreszeiten: Frühling mit Guido, Maki Ishii und Gamben-Soli, Sommer mit Purcell und Vivaldi, Herbst mit Simpson, Takemitsu und Boismortier, Winter mit Szenen aus Purcells Fairy Queen und King Arthur. Concert · Tickets (Opens in new tab) 8.11.—9.11.2025 Solitär ORA Early Music Festival ORA: Sternzeiten & Finale  Ein einziges Konzert präsentiert Musik von Stockhausen und Telemann: 12 Sternzeichen sowie die 12 Solofantasien für Gambe, Flöte und Violine. Performance · Tickets (Opens in new tab) Media Skip slider ORA Early Music Festival: Long Night at the Foyer Video Concert 23.3.2024 ORA Early Music Festival: Long Night at the Foyer  ORA Early Music Festival Video Concert 21.3.2024 ORA Early Music Festival  Jump to slider start Skip slider News Zukunftsmusik aus fünf Jahrhunderten Jump to slider start Team Skip slider Dorothee Oberlinger Dorothee Oberlinger Univ.-Prof. of Recorder Deputy Department Head Deputy Head of Institute Faculty Florian Birsak-Hayer Florian Birsak-Hayer Univ.-Prof. of Harpsichord & Basso Continuo / Ensemble Direction Deputy Department Head Faculty Vittorio Ghielmi Vittorio Ghielmi Univ.-Prof. of Viola da Gamba Department Head Faculty Simone Fontanelli Simone Fontanelli Senior Lecturer in New Music Head of Institute Faculty Juan Manuel Araque-Rueda Juan Manuel Araque-Rueda Senior Artist / Departmental Secretary - Early Music Department Employee Henning Pankow Henning Pankow Organization Service department management Jump to slider start

(Location: Mozart Sound and Film Collection) Sound recording and playback fundamentally changed listening and music-making habits, performance practice and the social structure of the musical world; music-making became repeatable and comparable in a whole new way.

A portrait of the legendary composer Helmut Lachenmann and a conversation with Johannes Maria Staud about the planned Helmut Lachenmann Days at the Mozarteum University.

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)

News … Home News Help us rename the Crossroads Festival! Help us rename the Crossroads Festival 25.11.2022 News Achim Bornhoeft © Crossroads For the next year we want to change the name of the Crossroads festival and would love to have some ideas for the new title from you! Please write the name you would like in the comments on Instagram! The author of the winning title gets a special prize. In Mozarteum University there is a stand where you can also write your title ideas! In that case you also have to write your email address so that we can contact you in case you are the winner! THANK YOU for your help and enjoy! Studio for Electronic Music Institute for New Music   DEADLINE: 02.12.2022 at 12:00 am (Vienna time)

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 ... Noh SeungJu receives one-year grant for music 17.10.2025 Noh SeungJu receives one-year grant for music  Composer Noh SeungJu, who was born in Seoul (South Korea) and is  currently resident in Salzburg, has been awarded the 2025 Music Grant by the State of Salzburg. Congratulations! Awards & Successes Alek Niemiro receives the Austrian Art Alumni Award 2025 14.10.2025 Alek Niemiro receives the Austrian Art Alumni Award 2025  Alek Niemiro, a graduate of the Thomas Bernhard Institute's directing programme, has been awarded the new Austrian Art Alumni Award for his project ‘Last Hour of Resistance’. Starting this year, the award will be presented annually by the BMFWF and Austrian art universities to selected outstanding graduates, and comes with a twelve-month scholarship worth €24,000. Congratulations! Awards & Successes Awards & achievements (german only) 1.10.2025 Awards & achievements (german only)  Awards & Successes Payam Yazdani receives Boy-Gobert Prize 2025 9.9.2025 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

After their first concert at the end of May, musical director Kai Röhrig and flautist Leona Rajakowitsch, founding members of the newly formed ensemble for contemporary music at the Mozarteum University, and composer Anna Skladannaya reflect on the potential and significance of new music - with a view to more to come.

Cycles, Seasons, Sounds of the Future: November sees the second staging on the interdisciplinary ORA – Original Sound Festival at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

Laure M. Hiendl has been an assistant professor* of composition at the Mozarteum University since 2021, and her new piece is a harbinger of a festival to be held in Nuremberg in July 2022.

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.

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)

A concert about the magic, the vulnerability and the future of our children. An evening that makes us think about what we want to expect of our children. Conductor: Andreas Martin Hofmeir

Anna Hechenblaickner (flute graduate of Bernhard Krabatsch) was awarded the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research's award of appreciation on November 21 in Vienna.

The weekend around 1 May at the University was marked by an extraordinary musical bridge-building between Salzburg and Dresden: with a cappella singing and choral symphonies, "night" and "sea", word and sound, the Dresden University Choir and the choirs of the Mozarteum University combined to create a multi-layered, dazzling spectrum of sound.

Munich baritone Jakob Hoffmann is the winner of the 5th International Haydn Competition for Classical Song and Aria, endowed with 8,000 euros, which took place over the Whitsun weekend at Rohrau Castle (Bruck/Leitha district, Lower Austria). Hoffmann also picked up two special prizes.