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.
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.
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.
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.
The latest volume in the publication series "klang-reden" by the Institute for the History of Musical Reception and Interpretation is a plea for empirical repertoire research - and opens up new perspectives on Mozart.
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.
Since the 2016/2017 academic year, the Mozarteum University has been awarding the "Prize for Excellent Master's Theses", which recognizes outstanding theses by graduates who address their chosen topics in an innovative, original, unusual or particularly sustainably relevant way.
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".
The rediscovery and revival of (choral) works of the Baroque are matters close to the heart of Jörn Hinnerk Andresen, who has been Professor of Choral Conducting at the Mozarteum University since fall 2019.
For 15 years, the Mozarteum University has been cooperating with the Tyrolean State Conservatory in the field of music school teacher training. In 2021/22, the offer in Innsbruck will be expanded to include the study profile "Jazz/Pop" in the Bachelor's program IGP and the Master's program "Making Music in Diversity Contexts".
