+++ Study information days in December at the Departments for Music Education Innsbruck, Music Education Salzburg and at the Orff Institute - all information here! +++
Application until 7 May: The competition was launched by the Mozarteum University in 2015 and is aimed at young musicians under the age of 23. It focuses on their virtuosity, their understanding and their interpretation of classical music. The orchestra of the competition is the Salzburg Chamber Soloists.
Six finalists competed for the coveted prizes in the vocal category at the 15th International Mozart Competition on February 16, 2023 in the Solitär of the Mozarteum University. The 1st prize goes to Santiago Valentín Sánchez Barbadora, the 2nd prize to Chelsea Marilyn Zurflüh, and the 3rd prize to Dániel Foki.
The Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival honours percussionist Vivi Vassileva with the Leonard Bernstein Award for outstanding young musicians. The award, which is endowed with 10,000 euros, will be presented at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in mid-July 2023.
Invitation for all students of the department (also with chamber music partners from other departments) to actively participate In the winter semester 2022/23, the Department of Wind & Percussion Instruments will start a pilot project and offer three public "Team Teaching Masterclasses" with two teachers of the department each during the academic year.
The first winners of the 15th International Mozart Competition have been announced. The 1st prize in the string quartet category and the traditional special prize of the Mozarteum Foundation for the best interpretation of a string quartet by W. A. Mozart go to the Arete Quartet, the 2nd prize to the Affinity Quartet and the 3rd prize to the Eden Quartet.
In addition to the successful master's programme in wind orchestra conducting, the Mozarteum University, as a competent partner of the Salzburg Wind Music Association, started the part-time university course in wind orchestra conducting for the first time in March 2019, financed by the province of Salzburg.
On January 20 and 21, the Thomas Bernhard Institute, in cooperation with the Department of Scenography of the Mozarteum University, presented Philoktet by Heiner Müller, Gaia in a version by Till Ernecke and The Bacchae by Euripides, three directorial works on the theme of classical music at the Theater im KunstQuartier.
On December 14, 2022, Elisabeth Eder, a teacher and researcher at the Department of Music Education Salzburg, was awarded the state prize "Award of Excellence" for the 40 best dissertations in Austria in the Aula der Wissenschaften in Vienna.
Attention composers: The application for ARCo - Art, Research and Creation 2023 is now open! The French-Austrian Academy for Contemporary Composition, a cooperation of the Mozarteum University and the GMEM - Centre national de création musicale Marseille will take place from July 7 to 16, 2023 in Marseille - be part of it!
Which opera houses do you know, where would you most like to visit an opera and how do you imagine a contemporary opera performance? Take part now in the survey as part of the Opera out of Opera project and, with a bit of luck, win one of three vouchers worth 100 euros for a store of your choice! The closing date for entries is January 31, 2023.
The Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize, launched at the Mozarteum University in 2019, has produced six winners! In the spirit of interdisciplinarity and inclusion, the selection process was open to all students of the Mozarteum University for the first time. The outstanding winner of the evening is the soprano Veronika Loy.
After A Midsummer Night's Dream and Owen Wingrave, the Department of Opera & Music Theater at the Mozarteum University will once again devote itself to Benjamin Britten's abysmal music-theatrical oeuvre. This winter semester, two of his masterpieces will be performed: Albert Herring in December 2022 will be followed by The Turn of the Screw in January 2023.
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.
39 singers from 15 countries competed for the International Mozart Competition of the Universtiät Mozarteum in the vocal category from February 10 to 16, 2023. A program highlight was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the IGNM, which was celebrated in 2022. The final took place on February 16, 2023 in the Solitär.
7 string quartets with musicians from a total of 14 nations, including 14 people from South Korea as the strongest represented nation, will compete for the International Mozart Competition 2023 in the string quartet division from February 3 to 9, 2023. The program highlight is a work by a living composer.
From gathering atmospheric images to analyzing characters. From conception to craft: a conversation with set designer Yea Eun Hong about the process of designing the stage for Benjamin Britten's comic opera "Albert Herring".
Against oblivion: when Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) looked back on her extremely productive life of some 400 compositions two years before her death, she seemed skeptical: "I hope not to be forgotten."
