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The annual conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology will take place at the Mozarteum University from 17-19 October 2024. It will focus on and discuss music-related phenomena that are related to ideas of democracy and democratic principles.

Great success for the Mozarteum University: The FWF (Austrian Science Fund) is funding the project ‘Aesthetic judgement in community’ by Iris Laner with 485,430 euros. The individual project is dedicated to the role of the community in art education theory, school practice and education policy and is being carried out in collaboration with partners from the universities in Cologne, Siegen, London and Pretoria.

The Mozarteum University congratulates its alumna Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin on receiving the Grand Art Prize of the State of Salzburg 2024! With this award, which is being presented to a female composer for the first time this year, the State of Salzburg is sending a strong signal in favour of the importance and creativity of women in music. The Grand Art Prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded annually alternately in the fields of visual arts, literature, music and performing arts.

The art and love of the viola led German Tcakulov from Vladikavkaz to St. Petersburg, on to Berlin, Munich, Karlsruhe and now to Salzburg, where he took up a professorship for viola on 1 October 2024.

With the approval of research funding totalling 2.5 million euros from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the foundation has been laid for the development of a state-of-the-art X-Reality Lab - the digital centrepiece of the new Mozarteum University site at Kurgarten.

Thesis - XYRA is a spatial design inspired by Phaedra's Love by author Sarah Kane. It explores themes of abstraction, surrealism, isolation, emotional intensity and existential reflection. Through the use of abstract spaces, the project creates dynamic and evolving atmospheres that invite viewers to question their perceptions and explore new dimensions of thought.

The symposium ‘Internalising’ serves the exchange of knowledge, findings, research results and methodological concepts around the topic of ‘Learning and practising in music’. Abstracts or short presentations of scientific lectures, workshops and poster presentations can be submitted. A publication in the form of a conference proceedings is planned.

In June, Cibrán Sierra Vázquez, Professor of Chamber Music, and his Cuarteto Quiroga were awarded the Medal of Honour of the Escuela Reina Sofia, the highest distinction of the renowned academic institution, by Queen Sofia of Spain. Juliane Banse, Professor of Solo Singing, was honoured with the Placa de la Escuela - congratulations!

With supplementary courses in Artistic Research, Inclusion & Diversity, International Expertise and Physio & Mental Coaching, the Mozarteum University will be offering students the opportunity to develop their individual profile from next semester onwards, in addition to the existing supplementary courses in Multimedia and Gender - Diversity - Arts.

The winners of the excellent Master's theses 2022/2023 are Viktoria Anna Hirschhuber, Christiaan Josef Willemse, Giorgio Musolesi and Iris Vonolfen - congratulations!

Theater-interested, -enthusiastic and -newcomers are welcome! Everyone together, citizens, people who live in Salzburg, students and life artists try out together.