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!

Cycles, times, dreams of the future: November sees the second edition of the interdisciplinary ORA – Original Sound Festival at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

Franziska Wallner, Head of the Institute for Coaching & Career at the Mozarteum University, on resilience, careers and change in music education.