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The students of the master's program Applied Theater at the Thomas Bernhard Institute, together with Ulrike Hatzer and Trace Müller, deal with Salzburg's "shadow stories" and with the forced labor camp in Maxglan/Leopoldskroner Moos in a participatory documentary theater project. Whether, when and why are painful pasts and shadow stories remembered?

In a meeting with the senate chairpersons of Austrian universities at the end of October, representatives of the Ministry of Education provided information about a planned amendment to the Universities Act. The intention to disempower the senates and thus massively restrict the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of science and art is evident.

News … Home News The Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: The Magic Flute 23.06.2021 Opera productionJune 26, 2021, 4 p.m .Night: Regina Koncz (06/23/25), Seung-Hyun Kim (06/24/26.)Opera production More news

News … Home News 2022-12-07_Cultural Fund Award of the City of Salzburg to "Nexus of Textile & SoundKulturfond Award of the City of Salzburg for "Nexus of Textile and Sound 07.12.2022 Awards & Successes  Pianist Charmaine Yang, a master's student at the Mozarteum University, has been awarded the 2025/26Awards & Successes Awards for Outstanding Master's Theses 2023/24 13.1.2026 Awards for Outstanding

And the Winner Is ... the Mozarteum 2022 Research Competition has been decided! This year's award for particularly successful artistic-scientific research proposals goes to Heike Henning for her collaborative project proposal "Rethinking and Innovating Choral Musicking in the Digital Space", which is currently being prepared for submission to the Austrian Science Fund FWF in cooperation with the University of Liechtenstein and the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences.

Pianist Charmaine Yang, a master's student at the Mozarteum University, has been awarded the 2025/26 annual scholarship from the Fondation Armand & Nicky Delvaux, under the patronage of the Fondation de Luxembourg, for her outstanding academic achievements. The scholarship is worth €20,000. Congratulations!

The Czech pianist Robert Bily, winner of The Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize 2022 and student of Pavel Gililov, wins the Alexis Gregory Vendome Piano Prize 2024, receiving the prize money of 30,000 dollars, and will also give several concerts in the United States and Europe.

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 flutist and instrumental music teacher Sofiia Musina came to Salzburg to study at the Mozarteum University in April 2022. From 2017 to 2022, she studied at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in Ukraine and obtained a Master's degree in ‘Master of Musical Art. Educational and Professional Programme: Musical Art’. She wrote her master's thesis on the Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk.

The latest volume in the publication series "klang-reden" by the Institute for the History of Musical Reception and Interpretation is a plea for empirical repertoire research - and opens up new perspectives on Mozart.

The annual conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology will take place at the Mozarteum University from 17-19 October 2024. It will focus on and discuss music-related phenomena that are related to ideas of democracy and democratic principles.

Violence against women (and minorities) is omnipresent, firmly anchored in our patriarchal structures, and is one of the most widespread human rights violations. In order to increase the visibility of the numerous initiatives of the United Nations and other organisations in relation to this topic, the UN campaign ‘Orange the World’ (OTW) introduced a uniform, strong subject colour. In keeping with its mission as an educational institution with social responsibility, the Mozarteum University is also taking part in ‘Orange the World’ during the ‘16 days against gender-based violence’ (25 November - 10 December).

Three days of singing, dancing and making music: From 24 to 26 April, the new ORIGO festival celebrates folk music in its lively and constantly changing form at the Mozarteum University and in the city of Salzburg - and thus sees itself as a platform that not only preserves folk music, but also makes it possible to experience it in all its dynamism and creativity.

Senior Lecturer for Voice, Elocution / Rhetoric, Children & Youth Voice Education (Music Education)

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."