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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.

The winners of the excellent master theses 2021/2022 are Patric Pletzenauer, Franziska Schneider, Tamara Obermayr and Friederike Klek - congratulations!

W. A. Mozart's composition Adagio in F minor (KV 594) for an organ work in a clock becomes a synesthetic experience in the project Shift, materially visible, audible and tangible. The result was presented in a textile-acoustic concert on July 18.

On July 16, this year's edition of the top-class French-Austrian Academy of Composition came to a successful close in Marseille with four concerts. For the first time, the prize winners of the International Mozart Competition were invited to Marseille and performed in the concerts.

How does one actually become an actor? How does an acting class work? The participants were able to try this out for themselves for a week at the #summercamp23 of the Thomas Bernhard Institute, when the university opened its doors wide and it was time for very different youngsters to get on stage, get into character, #act!

In a cross-generational project, the students of the Orff Institute developed a lively network of shared experiences together with students and teachers of the elementary school Aigen, the association Orchesterprojekt, the percussionist Gerhard Laber, the composer Angelà Tröndle, and the dancers Martha Prosser and Alexandra Eibner.

On June 29, the Department of Scenography invited to the annual tour, work show and summer party. Diverse insights into the studies, the studios and the created and ongoing projects were complemented with open studios, installations, exhibitions, films and live music.

Intensive one-week master classes with 53 renowned, top-class artists and teachers from the Mozarteum University and the international music industry, numerous public concerts and a colorful supporting program: from July 17 to August 12, the International Summer Academy will once again open its doors. It has evolved visually, but above all in terms of content.

Independent scientific publications, peer-reviewed conference papers and teaching assignments at renowned institutions: Our students contribute significantly to representing the Mozarteum University in artistic-scientific research and pedagogy in music theory nationally and internationally. Congratulations to our students in the ZKF Music Theory.

The Institute for Gender Equality & Gender Studies oversees the announcement and awarding of prizes for theses and qualification projects as well as funding for artistic/scholarly projects in the fields of Gender & Queer Studies and Diversity Studies.

Oscar Jockel is currently Kirill Petrenko's conducting assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic and a conducting fellow of the Karajan Academy for two years. He has been appointed the first Composer in Residence of the Brucknerhaus Linz for the 2020/21 season. Previous commissions range from works for solo instruments to sound installations and orchestral works, the latter for the Bruckner Orchestra Linz or the Camerata Salzburg, for example.

More than 330 years after the premiere of the only complete opera by Henry Purcell, the French composer Henry Fourès composes a setting for Dido and Aeneas and calls it "Elissa". A second name for the queen that allows the character to exist on its own, without direct ties to Aeneas.