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Dido and Aeneas (1689) - music by Henry Purcell, text by Nahum Tate. Elissa (premiere) - music by Henry Fourès, text by Elisabeth Gutjahr

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.

200 singers and musicians proved on July 2, 2023 that Dresden is located by the sea: The University Choir of Dresden, the Mozarteum UniChoir and the Staatskapelle Dresden let mighty waves of sound roll over the heads of 500 enthusiastic concertgoers with a brilliant program on the theme of "Beauty and Horror of the Sea" in the Kreuzkirche.

News … Home News Intimate Music - Great Sound: Institute for Chamber Music & Camerata Salzburg Intimate Music - Big Sound: Continuation of Collaboration 15.11.2022 News © Christian Schneider Continuation of the cooperation between the Camerata Salzburg and the Institute for Chamber Music of the Mozarteum University, which began in March 2022: former or current concertmasters of the Camerata will take over the artistic direction. The underlying idea of performing string quartet literature in a larger ensemble without losing the intimate music-making of a string quartet also characterizes the program of this concert project. The Mozarteum University Chamber Orchestra interprets string quartet literature. The upcoming concert is conducted by Gregory Ahss, who holds the concertmaster position together with Giovanni Guzzo. The Chamber Orchestra of the Mozarteum University is composed of master and postgraduate students. Upcoming concert 27.11.2022 11:00 am Solitär Intimate music - Great sound (2)  The chamber orchestra interprets string quartet literature Concert · Free entry (Opens in new tab)

Since October 2022, the Moz-Art-Zone has been offering an interdisciplinary music and art education program that arouses enthusiasm and interest among students and opens the doors of the university wide for this purpose. On November 30, 2022, the first large Christmas Carol Sing Along choir concert took place with 150 Salzburg students.

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.

39 singers from 15 countries competed for the International Mozart Competition of the Universtiät Mozarteum in the vocal category from February 10 to 16, 2023. A program highlight was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the IGNM, which was celebrated in 2022. The final took place on February 16, 2023 in the Solitär.

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.

Ion Marin, internationally sought-after conductor, founder of the Cantus Mundi National Program and holder of the Claudio Abbado Endowed Professorship at the University Mozarteum, will conduct the University Mozarteum Symphony Orchestra for the first time at the Haus für Mozart on October 18. A conversation about truth, happiness and the power of music.

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".

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.

Attention composers: The application for ARCo - Art, Research and Creation 2023 is now open! The French-Austrian Academy for Contemporary Composition, a cooperation of the Mozarteum University and the GMEM - Centre national de création musicale Marseille will take place from July 7 to 16, 2023 in Marseille - be part of it!

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 International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum University starts anew and expands with ARCO - Art, Research and Creation Opus and the Summer Academy Baroque (in Siena). The program connects teachers, students and musicians from all over the world in Salzburg and establishes cultural connections across Europe.