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Another piece of normality returned and the Mozarteum University hosted another alumni and emeriti gathering on June 30. We met amidst the exhibition "Achtung International - Salzburg and 100 Years of the International Society for New Music" in the foyer of the Mozarteum University for a drink. Matthew Werley gave a guided tour of the exhibition afterwards and the evening ended with a visit to Claudio Monteverdi's opera "L'incoronazione di Poppea".

At the Federal Competition of German-Speaking Acting Students 2022, held in Ludwigsburg from June 19 to 25, 2022, the 4th year acting class was able to bring an ensemble prize back to Salzburg for the production ¡Los Bernarrrdá's!.

Starting in the winter semester 2022/23, the one-year university course "Music and Dance in Social Work and Integrative Pedagogy" will be offered again and is aimed at pedagogues of all disciplines as well as musicians who are interested in the use of music and dance in social work and integrative, inclusive pedagogy. Part-time, it offers participants an expansion of their professional qualifications.

The Applied Theatre project digs for stories hidden in the Rainberg. By overlaying the different uses in different periods of time, contrasts but also commonalities become visible: "Dance until we die" examines how temporary communities function, according to which criteria they are created, which rules they are subject to.

In the course of the project Spot On MozART, various authors have dealt with the person W. A. Mozart, with lines of conflict and social relations. Who was Mozart? In a speculative synopsis, the project Constructing Mozart is specifically dedicated to the upheavals in the life of the composer and musician along his family conflicts.

At the end of the 1970s, a group of so-called "school musicians" of the subjects A1, A2 and IGP left the Mozarteum University (at that time still a university) as graduates and have nevertheless always remained in contact - with each other but also with their alma mater. After the general "forced break" of the last two years, this year thirteen alumni and alumnae from different regions and professional fields met again in Innsbruck. May many more meetings follow!

With the project "With Dylan On The Road" the Mozarteum University together with The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg offers students the unique opportunity to go on a journey with a scholarship in their luggage to develop art projects inspired by Bob Dylan.

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.