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Andreas Scholl is one of the best and most renowned countertenors in the world. A conversation about his endowed professorship at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, his musical roots and the very special moments of his career.

Judith Rubatscher, graduate of music education at the Mozarteum Innsbruck, was awarded a research prize by the Kanda Center of the University of Innsbruck for her ethnomusicological thesis "'Singen is a part vo unsam leben.' Die aktuelle Gesangspraxis der Schmiedeleut-I-Hutterer in Manitoba" (Supervisor: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Nußbaumer). Rubatscher dealt with the musical tradition of the Hutterites, a Tyrolean Anabaptist community from the 16th century, which today is only represented in North America.

For the winter semester 2020/2021, Maestro Ion Marin has been appointed to the Claudio Abbado Endowed Professorship, endowed by the Hans Gröber Foundation Vaduz. In addition to his work as Professor of Orchestral Conducting, he will assume the artistic direction of the Symphony Orchestra of the University Mozarteum Salzburg.

Within the Mozarteum, the Werkstatt-Akademie addresses students of composition, conducting and interpretation (instrument, voice). Through intensive cooperation with the Austrian Ensemble for New Music (oenm), competences and experiences are brought into the teaching which are not (yet) available in this concentration at the Mozarteum. We expect a strengthening of competences in the field of New Music for the composers, conductors and interpreters studying at the Mozarteum.

The 13th International Mozart Competition of the University Mozarteum Salzburg came to an end with the final concert of the vocal section on February 15 in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation. The 1st prize of 15,000 euros, donated by the International Salzburg Association, went to the soprano Anna ElKhashem.

News … Home News Opera Out Of Opera Opera Out Of Opera 1 01.09.2018 Research project What do Fiumicino Airport in Rome, the beach of Paralía Palaiou Falhrou Mpatis in Athens, the Spanish city of Pamplona and Europark Salzburg have in common? They form the backdrops of "Opera out of Opera" - a Europe-wide, interactive live concert format that moves opera far away from the classical opera house setting and right into the middle of people's colorful everyday lives. Mozart or Rossini? With an app, the audience can vote on the program and find out about composers and their works. Leading Team Director: Vassilis Anastasisou  Conductor: Michelangelo Galeati  ; Casting Director & Vocal Teacher: Mario Diaz Project partners  Conservatorio Santa Cecilia (Rome - Italy) CHAMBER OPERA ASSOCIATION of NAVARRA (Pamplona - Spain) Universität Mozarteum Salzburg (Salzburg - Austria) European Association of Conservatoires - AEC (Brussels - Belgium) ART-ON Petite Opera du Monde (Athens - Greece) Duration September 2018 - April 2020 What do Fiumicino Airport in Rome, the beach of Paralía Palaiou Falhrou Mpatis in Athens, the Spanish city of Pamplona and Europark Salzburg have in common? They form the backdrops of "Opera out of Opera" - a Europe-wide, interactive live concert format that moves opera far away from the classical opera house setting and right into the middle of people's colorful everyday lives. Mozart or Rossini? With an app, the audience can vote on the program and find out about composers and their works. Contact Artists Christos Delizonas Ayşe Şenogul Giacomo Nanni Marita Paparizou Nutthaporn Thammathi Sang Jin Jang Chihiro Hachiya Désirée Giove Performances SALZBURG, 7. März 2020 Highlight-Clip Teaser 1 – Café Classic Teaser 2 – Café Classic Teaser 3 – Europark PAMPLONA, 29. Februar 2020 ATHEN, 20. September 2019 ROM, 6. und 7. September 2019 App download Opera out of Opera-App Download Android Opera out of Opera-App Download iPhone

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.

Six finalists competed for the coveted prizes in the vocal category at the 15th International Mozart Competition on February 16, 2023 in the Solitär of the Mozarteum University. The 1st prize goes to Santiago Valentín Sánchez Barbadora, the 2nd prize to Chelsea Marilyn Zurflüh, and the 3rd prize to Dániel Foki.

The Bläserphilharmonie Mozarteum Salzburg presents itself for the first time under its new artistic director and conductor Andreas Martin Hofmeir with the concert KINDgeRECHT on March 18, 2023 at 7:30 pm in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation. New challenges and perspectives included.

Percussionist Martin Grubinger, Univ. Prof. for Classical Percussion & Multipercussion at the Mozarteum University, will be awarded the Heidelberg Spring Music Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, on April 5, 2023.

The prestigious Herbert von Karajan Prize, worth a total of 50,000 euros, has been awarded for the 6th time this year as part of the Salzburg Easter Festival. The prize winner is, among others, the composer and conductor Oscar Jockel, who was featured in the celebrated production "Westbam meets Wagner".

Continuation of Opera out of Opera: Don Giovanni in Rome, Così fan tutte in Porto, Le nozze di Figaro in Stockholm and La Bohème in Oslo and Salzburg. What began in 2018 under the project title Opera out of Opera will be continued across Europe from 2023 to 2025. Co-funded by the European Commission's Creative Europe program, Opera out of Opera II builds on the results of the first project period - with the aim of developing innovative opera formats for new target groups.

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.

More than 330 years after the premiere of the only complete opera by Henry Purcell, the French composer Henry Fourès composes a musical setting for Dido and Aeneas and calls it Elissa. A conversation with Rector Elisabeth Gutjahr, who wrote the libretto for it.

Oscar Jockel is currently Kirill Petrenko's conducting assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic and a conducting fellow of the Karajan Academy for two years. He has been appointed the first Composer in Residence of the Brucknerhaus Linz for the 2020/21 season. Previous commissions range from works for solo instruments to sound installations and orchestral works, the latter for the Bruckner Orchestra Linz or the Camerata Salzburg, for example.