+++ Study information days in December at the Departments for Music Education Innsbruck, Music Education Salzburg and at the Orff Institute - all information here! +++
The people of Salzburg can look forward to a very special concert next March, as Christian Thielemann, General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and former Artistic Director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, has been invited to guest conduct the Mozarteum Wind Philharmonic Orchestra Salzburg.
In cooperation between the Mozarteum University and the Andreas Hofer Society, the newly reconstructed collection of works by the former Salzburg court conductor Andreas Hofer ‘ver sacrum seu flores musici’ was performed on both sides of the border between Germany and Austria in 2021.
In autumn 2024, bass-baritone Lisandro Abadie, actress Hanna Binder, conductor Christiane Büttig, visual artist Annette Fauvel, guitarists Giuseppe Feola and Bozhana Pavlova, cultural and media scientist Paul Feigelfeld, composer Laure M. Hiendl, pianist Lei Meng, soprano Allison Oakes and violist German Tcakulov will take up their positions as university professors at the Mozarteum University. We are looking forward to the collaboration!
As part of the Moz-Art-Zone, we link special events for school classes to the broad spectrum of university programmes and thus want to give children and young people access to music, art and culture. The focus is on young people meeting (young) artists who offer an insight into the artistic work of the various departments at the Mozarteum University. The Moz-Art-Zone offers a colourful mix of activities, from a visit to the opera with an artist talk and theatre laboratory to special educational concerts and hands-on workshops in the graphics workshop.
Berlin composer Frank Schwemmer was "very satisfied" after the world premiere of his new piece "mein Wort mein Glück mein Weinen" on 9 March 2024 in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation.
With the first edition of the new interdisciplinary ORA Early Music Festival, the Mozarteum University is celebrating a special premiere. Over three days, early music, contemporary musical language and improvisation come together in numerous concerts and sound performances.
With the overture from Axur, re d'Ormus by Antonio Salieri, followed by Joseph Haydn's Sinfonia concertante in B flat major Hob I: 105 and the Prague Symphony in D major K. 504 by Wolfgang A. Mozart, Maestro Ion Marin and the Academy Orchestra of the Mozarteum University will also perform at the Mozart Week in 2024. The orchestra made its debut during Mozart Week 2023.
Anton Bruckner and the Mozarteum University. A review with a look ahead to the commemorative year 2024 on Bruckner's 200th birthday.
The English vocal ensemble Voces8 is one of the world's leading a cappella formations. The three ladies and five gentlemen set standards in unaccompanied solo singing in terms of intonation, legato culture, vocal homogeneity and stylistic diversity. Voces8 celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023. At the invitation of the Mozarteum University and the Salzburg Bach Society, the ensemble will be available for a workshop on November 20.
Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Polaschek was a guest at the Mozarteum University on Tuesday, August 8, 2023 and congratulated students on their various engagements at the Salzburg Festival. In a conversation lasting just under an hour, the students told how their engagements came about and why the Salzburg Festival can be an important stage for the future.
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.
The weekend around 1 May at the University was marked by an extraordinary musical bridge-building between Salzburg and Dresden: with a cappella singing and choral symphonies, "night" and "sea", word and sound, the Dresden University Choir and the choirs of the Mozarteum University combined to create a multi-layered, dazzling spectrum of sound.
The training in cooperation between the Mozarteum University and the Salzburg Wind Music Association is financially supported by the province of Salzburg until 2028.
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".
Festive music from Versailles characterizes the pre-Christmas season with Grands Motets from France. With soloists, the vocalEnsemble and the Baroque Orchestra of the Mozarteum University, truly great sounds are heard under the direction of Jörn Andresen.
With the Moz-Art-Zone, the Mozarteum University will offer an expanded music and art education program starting in the winter semester of 2022/23 with an interdisciplinary offering that aims to awaken enthusiasm and interest in students and opens the doors of the university wide for this purpose.
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.
Oscar Jockel, a master's student in orchestral conducting at the Mozarteum University, has won first prize in the competition for the assistant conducting position with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Jockel will serve as assistant conductor to the Berliner Philharmoniker and principal conductor Kyrill Petrenko for one year beginning in the fall of 2022. In addition, he will spend two years as an academician at the Karajan Academy and present his own portrait concert.
On 25 and 26 June 2021, the SZENE Salzburg will be the setting for one of the most popular choral works of the 20th century: Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana".
