21.11.2025
Honorary doctorates for Dame Janet Ritterman and Michael Worton
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20.11.2025Awards of the Research Competition Mozarteum 2025 This year's RCM Award Ceremony took place on 11 November 2025 in the Faistauer Hall. Senate Chair Christoph Lepschy opened the event and emphasised the guiding principle of the Research Competition Mozarteum: openness to all disciplines, fields of study, career levels and alumni. Since 2019, this internal research funding instrument has contributed to establishing a diverse research culture at the university.
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19.11.2025Yvonne Wasserloos receives Salzburg Culture Fund AwardYvonne Wasserloos, university professor of musicology, has been awarded the International Grand Prize for Science & Research (worth €12,000) by the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg for her outstanding achievements in the fields of science and research, including her work on ‘Music and Power – Dimension and Context’ and her research on the social, political and cultural significance of music – especially in connection with democracy and the culture of remembrance. Congratulations!
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19.11.2025Cristina Giurgea receives annual scholarship from the Province of SalzburgCristina Giurgea, alumna of the Master's programme in Applied Theatre at the Thomas Bernhard Institute of the Mozarteum University, has been awarded the Province of Salzburg's annual scholarship for performing arts, worth €12,000, to support her work at the intersection of research theatre and performance art in Salzburg. Congratulations!
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17.11.2025X Human Minutes How long is a minute? A fleeting moment or rather an eternity? In fact, each of us perceives time differently. For some, a minute at the bus stop drags on endlessly, for others it races by like a world record attempt.
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14.11.2025In memoriam Thomas Daniel Schlee It is with great regret that we announce the passing of Dr. Thomas Daniel Schlee, a former member of the University Council, on 10th November 2025. His unexpected death, at the age of 68, has left us deeply saddened. We extend our heartfelt sympathies to all those who were close to him.
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31.10.2025Reflections – Female composers and their heirs in the sound of the present ‘Reflections’ is a project that pursues an egalitarian approach to the development and exploration of the arts: works by female composers from earlier centuries that have been forgotten or overlooked, rarely heard or never heard in this country are reflected in the diverse musical languages of today's musicians.
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31.10.2025AEC Annual Congress: The sound of future of music educationPress release -
29.10.2025Acting class of 1984–1988Alumnae & Alumni Stories
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27.10.2025Echoes of Osaka - Designing Voices in Salzburg The Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC) is a trans-national organisation with the aim of networking music colleges across Europe and jointly maintaining high international standards of education. Between 5 and 8 November 2025, the AEC will hold a congress at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, which will focus on topics such as leadership, resilience, professional skills and health care within university-level music education.
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27.10.2025Art meets energy: Salzburg AG Art Prize awardedPress release -
21.10.2025A triad of talent Following a successful masterclass and a sold-out concert with the Bläserphilharmonie Mozarteum Salzburg in March 2025, Christian Thielemann will take up a position as Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Mozarteum University in October 2026. Violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianist Claudio Martínez Mehner will also begin teaching in the 2026/27 academic year.
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17.10.2025Noh 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!
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15.10.2025International Summer Course at the Orff Institute Save the date: The International Summer Course is in preparation and will take place in Salzburg from July 5-11, 2026.
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14.10.2025Alek 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!
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10.10.2025Grand opening of the new Mozarteum University building "UMAK" We are proud to announce that, after two and a half years of construction work, the Mozarteum University’s newest building, located in Schwarzstraße 36, is now complete and officially open! This exciting new space, with a surface area of 1,895m2, is dedicated to teaching, rehearsing, research, advancement and appreciation of the arts, and digital arts.
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6.10.2025Early music as a sounding board for the future Cycles, Seasons, Sounds of the Future: November sees the second staging on the interdisciplinary ORA – Original Sound Festival at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
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6.10.2025Resilience is more than just coping with stress Franziska Wallner, Head of the Institute for Coaching & Career at the Mozarteum University, on resilience, careers and change in musicians' education.
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1.10.2025House of NiceIn the summer semester of 2024, students studying design: technology.textiles developed the ‘House of Nice’ – a conceptual pop-up store that uses handmade products to open up individual perspectives on the theme of time. The bachelor's students developed, designed and produced products and presented them in the form of a perspective shop.
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