+++ Study Information Days 2026 for many of our studies: all dates can be found in the event calendar! +++
The Tyrolean State Prize for Art, worth €14,000, goes to Johannes Maria Staud, a composer born in Innsbruck and professor of composition at the Mozarteum University. The jury unanimously agreed that Staud is one of Austria's most important contemporary composers. We send our warmest congratulations!
Rachel Katstaller has been studying art education at the [Bildnerische] Innsbruck since 2020 and has been nominated for the Ö1 Graphic of the Year award 2025 – vote now!
Armela Madreiter, graduate of the Mozarteum University and dramaturge for the current music theatre production by Florentine Klepper and Kai Röhrig's opera class, Medusa / Giuditta, talks about fruitful collaboration, exciting female characters and crossing boundaries.
On 8 May, the Mozarteum University Salzburg held its fourth Inclusion and Diversity Day (INDI Day). INDI Day is a biennial event organised by the Working Group for Inclusion and Diversity in cooperation with the Department of Family, Gender, Disability & Diversity at Paris Lodron University Salzburg, the Stefan Zweig University of Education Salzburg and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences on the premises of the Mozarteum University.
The Ö1 Composition Prize 2025, endowed with 10,000 euros, goes to the young composer Christiaan Willemse. He is studying composition in the postgraduate programme with Johannes Maria Staud at the Mozarteum University and impressed the jury with his personal and technically advanced works and compositional flair - congratulations!
A Year of Vibrant Musical Activity – Spotlight on the June 16 Concert in Vienna: The 2024/2025 academic year has been exceptionally dynamic for the guitar department at Mozarteum University Salzburg. Guitar students have taken part in a wide range of artistic and educational activities, reflecting the department’s vitality and high artistic standards. Among the most notable events is the upcoming concert on June 16, 2025, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna, titled: “Vienna and Italy in Dialogue: The Guitar as a Bridge Between Two Traditions.”
On 2nd June 2025, the University Council of the Mozarteum University voted on the shortlist presented by the Senate and elected Univ.-Prof. Dr. Constanze Wimmer as the new Rector of the Mozarteum University Salzburg for the term 1st April 2026 – 31st March 2030.
From 3 June to 31 July 2025, the students of the Mozarteum University will have their say: your opportunity to express your opinion on the quality of teaching, studies and the university's service facilities via an online questionnaire.
The history of women at the Mozarteum University is not linear - it tells of pioneers and structural barriers, of new beginnings and persistent change and can be experienced in an exhibition from June 2 to 18.
Julia Maria Eckes, Anastasia Fedorenko and Anna-Maria Husca are about to complete their Master's degree in Opera & Music Theatre at the Mozarteum University. In this interview, they give us an insight into their everyday life as students and let us in on the rehearsal process for the opera ‘Medusa / Giuditta’.
Dresden-born Christiane Büttig has been a university professor of choral and ensemble conducting at the Mozarteum University since fall 2024. As a conductor and choir director, Christiane Büttig brings international experience to Salzburg and aims to expand the choral scene with practice-oriented training in children's and youth choirs and to develop and establish a high-performance chamber choir. A conversation about formative experiences, choral work in all its facets and upcoming projects.
The multidisciplinary artist Maria Margarethe Drexel, Senior Artist in New Media at the Department of Fine Arts & Design at the Mozarteum University Innsbruck, is being honoured with the Paul Flora Prize 2025. The prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, is awarded annually alternately by the provinces of Tyrol and South Tyrol and honours outstanding artistic achievements and cross-border cultural cooperation.
The only voice teacher Cecilia Bartoli has ever had is her mother, the soprano Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni. We are delighted to announce that from 4 to 8 August 2025, professional singers of all voice types will have the unique opportunity to work personally with Silvana Bartoli Bazzoni on ‘fundamental principles of vocal technique - the basis of a long singing life’ in a masterclass as part of the International Summer Academy at Mozarteum University. Registration is open now.
At the 17th International Beethoven Piano Competition, organised by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), pianist Martin Nöbauer won the 2nd prize worth a total of 12,000 euros (ex aequo with Jonas Stark) as well as the Klemens Kramert special prize worth 2,000 euros. Our warmest congratulations!
Mozart's opera Don Giovanni deals with the mythologically charged subject of the womaniser and libertine Don Juan. The focus is on an unscrupulous nobleman who lives excessively, seduces women and even murders – until he is finally brought to account by a higher power. The story is deeply rooted in moral issues and raises questions of guilt, abuse of power and punishment.
Under the title "Staging Realities" Mozarteum University invites media artists and artist collectives to apply for a funded residency to create an interactive, multi-user XR performance in the newly built X-Reality-Lab. Fully operational in winter 2025, the Lab features cutting-edge projection-based XR technology and is supported by the open-source software framework mozXR developed in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
While artistic education was radically rethought in the 20th century, nude drawing as a teaching format has not been fundamentally reformed since the 19th century. As an integral part of the teaching program at contemporary art academies, it is largely continued and valued in its historical form or in close reference to it.
Urban sketching in Rijeka: Seven scenography students on a five-day artistic discovery tour through a city that is reinventing itself – raw, unfinished, dynamic, contradictory and full of cultural optimism, between the centre and the periphery, industry and harbour, historical architecture and contemporary – indoors and outdoors.
