Awards for excellent master theses 2020/2021 Since the academic year 2016/2017, the Mozarteum University has been awarding the "Prize for excellent master theses". This award recognizes outstanding theses of graduates who dedicate themselves to their chosen topics in an innovative, original, unusual or particularly sustainable way. The winners of the excellent master theses 2020/2021 are: Caroline Fritz (MA IGP Guitar - Classical): "Slavko Avsenik und seine Original Oberkrainer: Untersuchung von Herkunft und Einflüsse mit der Analyse ausgewählter Beispiele" (scientific work, supervisor: Franz Zaunschirm) Pavle Krstic (MA Piano Soloist Training - Concert): "Analyse als Mittel der Interpretation der Préludes op.28 von Chopin" (scientific work, supervisor: Barbara Dobretsberger) We congratulate you!
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1.9.2022
Award for Excellent Master Theses 2020/21 Awards & Successes -
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11.7.2022
Outlook for the International Days Under the theme "Sharing", this new event format will enable encounters and networking between all pedagogical fields of study at the Mozarteum University.
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8.7.2022
Prize of the Ruhr Piano Festival 2022 for Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen Every year, the Ruhr Piano Festival honours artists whose life's work is closely connected to the festival with its prize. The duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen played their 17th concert at the Ruhr Piano Festival on 8 July 2023. The "desire for shared sound" characterises each of their performances, for which they often put together special programmes for the Piano Festival.
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22.6.2022
Monteverdi's amoral material Personal ambition, egomania and sexuality as an instrument of power: Claudio Monteverdi's (1567-1643) "L'incoronazione di Poppea" is as topical as ever, even 380 years after it was written. A conversation with Gernot Sahler, the musical director of the opera production.
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11.6.2022
Workshop of artistic exchange The International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum University starts anew and expands with ARCO - Art, Research and Creation Opus and the Summer Academy Baroque (in Siena). The program connects teachers, students and musicians from all over the world in Salzburg and establishes cultural connections across Europe.
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17.5.2022
Raimonda Žiūkaitė's Opera "Salt is My Heritage" is Stage Work of the Year Raimonda Žiūkaitė's opera composition "Salt is My Heritage" was chosen as the Work of the Year in the category of stage works by the Composers' Union of Lithuania. The work was performed by Lidia Luciano (soprano), students of the Mozarteum University and the œnm under the direction of Félix Marest. The premiere took place on October 28, 2021, as part of the Crossroads Festival. It was directed by Giulia Giammona and the libretto was written by Franz Jäger.
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15.4.2022
Pianist Robert Bily wins The Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize 2022 Five finalists competed for the coveted 20,000 euro The Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize 2022 (made up from 2021) at the Solitaire of the Mozarteum University yesterday (14 April). The evening's double winner was pianist Robert Bily, who enchanted both the high-calibre jury and the audience with a breathtaking interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata (Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major op. 53), Claude Debussy's Images I and Siegfried Thiele's Perpetuum Mobile.
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4.3.2022
The pleasure of doing: 30 years of studying folk music 30 years of folk music studies and study programs at the University Mozarteum: Together with the Lucerne School of Music, teachers and students of the University Mozarteum go on a search for traces between yodel and yodel, tradition and new trends.
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4.3.2022
Bazaar of New Music: 100 Years IGNM In the anniversary year "100 Years of the International Society for New Music (IGNM)", a diverse program reflects on its role as a major peace project after World War 1, on Salzburg's role as an international city in the interwar period, and on New Music's timeless claim to (re)learn how to listen.
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11.12.2021
Vivi Vassileva and Richard Putz win Prix Iannis Xenakis Our students Vivi Vassileva and Richard Putz are the winners of this year's Prix Iannis Xenakis. The prize, established by the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in cooperation with the percussion class on the initiative of Martin Grubinger, promotes young percussion soloists and is intended to pave the way to the major concert halls and international music festivals. The participants had to conceive an extensive solo recital concert and present it in front of a 6-person jury.
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11.12.2021
The Helmut Lachenmann moment A portrait of the legendary composer Helmut Lachenmann and a conversation with Johannes Maria Staud about the planned Helmut Lachenmann Days at the Mozarteum University.
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11.12.2021
42 minutes. portrait of Laure M. Hiendl Laure M. Hiendl has been an assistant professor* of composition at the Mozarteum University since 2021, and her new piece is a harbinger of a festival to be held in Nuremberg in July 2022.
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