Academy Summer at Mozarteum University

This year's Academy Summer will kick off with the French-Austrian Academy for Contemporary Composition ARCO - Art, Research & Creation Opus, which will take place in Salzburg for the second time this year in cooperation with GMEM - Centre national de création musicale Marseille.

The 5th edition will bring twelve young composers from all over the world as well as two student string quartets, six singers and an assistant conductor to Salzburg from 3 to 13 July 2024 to work together with the French ensembles Les Métaboles and Multilatérale. Throughout the week, public lectures and concerts will take place at Mozarteum University and in Salzburg (including at the Museum der Moderne). The students' own compositions will be rehearsed, performed and professionally recorded in two final concerts.

One highlight of ARCO 2024 is the Short Operetta Festival, which will take place as part of the Salzkammergut 2024 Capital of Culture: Three 20-minute short operettas by contemporary composers and librettists were selected in a competition and will be premiered as part of the Short Operetta Festival: contemporary operettas by up-and-coming teams of artists, staged by Mozarteum University students from the fields of acting, directing, scenography, singing and orchestra as well as the Ensemble Multilatérale.

Immediately following ARCO, 60 master classes, 13 additional courses and much more will be offered in four course periods from 15 July to 10 August as part of the International Summer Academy. 61 lecturers and over 500 participants from all over the world will be guests in Salzburg. In addition to tried and tested concert formats such as the lecturers' concerts, the study concerts and the guest performances at Schloss Höch, the week will conclude with a matinee on the Saturday of each course period, at which nominated students will present their skills to a jury. At the end, the best three musicians will emerge as the winners of the week.

From August, the Department of Early Music's Baroque Summer Academy will take place for the 4th time at the renowned Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. From 28 August to 2 September, a team of lecturers from the Mozarteum University will once again offer a week of intensive masterclasses for interested students from all over the world. In addition to the lessons, there will be concerts by students and lecturers, orchestral projects and other activities. Highlights in 2024 include the concert "The Pleasure Garden of Enlightenment" in cooperation with the Royal College of Music and, for the second time, a contemporary composition lab for early instruments. 

In addition, the opera "The Turn of the Screw" (musical director: Kai Röhrig, stage director: Florentine Klepper) will be performed again on 9 & 10 August as part of "La Chigiana Operalab" with students from the "La Chigiana" Vocal Academy and Mozarteum University Chamber Orchestra.