The coming season brings an exciting concert mix: Mozart can be experienced in exciting constellations across all eras. The season starts in October with the festival LatinoMozart!
An opening weekend with Latino flair, ten selected concert highlights spread throughout the year, and the contemporary Dialoge Festival in early summer as a crowning finale: the 2023/24 concert season of the International Mozarteum Foundation presents itself artistically first-class and diverse in its programming. Klassik pur, Sofa Concerts, Museum Concerts, Musik & Wort, after work as well as the Dialoge Festival - the various successful musical formats can be found again in the new concert season. "We are delighted that all these formats have been so well received," explains Rolando Villazón, Artistic Director of the Mozarteum Foundation, and announces, "We will once again offer our esteemed audience a multifaceted concert program with a lot of heart and soul, featuring stars of classical music and selected newcomers in exciting constellations."
In the Great Hall with its new fresh coat of paint, the Vienna Hall, the historic Tanzmeistersaal and its modern counterpart in the Villa Vicina, Alondra de la Parra, Pablo Heras-Casado, Emily Pogorelc, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Xavier de Maistre, Daniel Ottensamer, Benjamin Herzl, Klemens Bittmann, Matthias Bartolomey, Paul Montag, Ariane Haering and the exceptional young talent Elias Keller, among others, can be heard.
The concert season starts with a fiery opening weekend: From October 13 to 15, LatinoMozart will be celebrated; this spirited combination was already cheered by the audience at the Mozart+Fest for the opening of the new foyer building in October 2022. Our partner orchestras from Latin America, the Orquesta Iberacademy Medellín and the Havana Lyceum Orchestra, will travel to Salzburg for this event. This weekend, the stars of classical music will be in attendance, including conductor Alondra de la Parra, clarinettist Daniel Ottensamer and harpist Xavier de Maistre, who will perform a moving selection of Latin American canciones (songs) together with Rolando Villazón. A talk, a Latino clubbing, a flash mob as well as Mittendrin and Lausch concerts for children complete the program.
Classical music at its purest is on the program four times: this format offers a stage not only to already successfully established performers, but also to young up-and-coming artists who have already caused a stir among critics and audiences. The violinist Benjamin Herzl recently made a name for himself in Salzburg with his Concerti Corti festival, and he is always a welcome guest on the stages of the Mozarteum Foundation. On November 23, he and his duo partner Ingmar Lazar on piano will weave Mozart with Debussy, Kreisler, Franck and Bizet, among others, into a coherent concert program. The Salzburg-based Trio Callas is considered one of the most promising chamber music ensembles. On March 7, they will combine piano trios from different eras, Mozart corresponding here with Ravel and Brahms. "Mozart à la française" is presented by pianist Paul Montag and clarinetist Raphaël Sévère on April 9; here Mozart meets, among others, his French composer colleague François Devienne. And we look forward to the young prize winners of the renowned ARD Music Competition on May 16. The winners in the categories piano trio, viola and double bass will present themselves to the Salzburg audience in a joint concert.
Two sofa concerts promise excellent musical entertainment, combined with moderation by artistic director Rolando Villazón himself, among others. The artists chat between the pieces from the sewing box, music merges with anecdotes and conversations to an entertaining concert event. The sofa concert "1 plus 4" on March 18 brings together astonishing young exceptional talents: The only 16-year-old pianist Elias Keller has already won several national and international competitions. He will perform Mozart and Liszt. The Leonkoro Quartet will play Schubert's String Quartet in G minor. This young, award-winning formation is now one of the most sought-after ensembles of its generation. The Sofa Concert on June 8 is part of the Dialoge Festival and invites you on a musical journey from Mexico to the Baltic States.
The after work concerts have meanwhile gained a fan base. With their relaxed atmosphere, they look beyond the "classical" horizon and score points with unusual lineups and exciting crossover programs. Three after-work concerts are on the concert calendar for the new season. With "Seasons & Sensations" on December 12, the Quartetto Chagall and Igor Zobin on accordion interweave Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" with Piazzolla's Latin American counterpart "Las cuatro estaciones porteñas" to create an exciting symbiosis. Georg Gratzer (Woodwinds) and Klemens Bittmann (violin & mandola) will give us a fast-paced musical vitamin injection on April 18 with their program "Air, Love & Vitamins". They serve up a lively mix of Telemann, Piazzolla, Radiohead and Morricone, among others. On June 14, five cellists under the direction of Matthias Bartolomey will take the audience into the "Celloversum"; the six cellos will embark on a tour through the epochs, from the Renaissance to the present, with works by Bach, Bizet and Bernstein, among others. Afterwards, the Mozarteum Foundation invites you to a public viewing on the occasion of the opening of the European Football Championship 2024.
The format Music & Word weaves both into a coherent, enlightening concert event. Here, the language of sound and language interact in a theme-related manner, refer to each other and artfully pass the ball to each other. Here ball is already the correct keyword for the music & word concert on 9 November, which tunes to the "Faschings-Lustbarkeiten". Not only Wolfgang Amadé and his wife Constanze, but also their sister and even their father and mother danced all night long at carnival time, as their correspondence vividly reveals. At the start of the new carnival and ball season, the Oberton String Octet gives musical samples from old and new times with Mozart and Piazzolla, and actor Stefan Wilkening reads from family letters that illuminate the different carnival customs of the time in Salzburg and Vienna, but also in Paris and Venice.
The museum concerts invite you to the salon of the Mozart family, to the beautiful ambience of the Tanzmeistersaal in the Mozart residence. The focus is on early music with historical instruments, which are not experienced in concerts every day. At the museum concert on May 7, Rodney Prada will play the viola da gamba and Josep Maria Martí Duran the theorbo.
A special moment for the Mozarteum Foundation is always the performance of Mozart's "Requiem" KV 626, which traditionally cannot be missing from the concert program around the anniversary of his death. Mozart's last, unfinished composition will be performed in the Great Hall on December 5. On the 232nd anniversary of Mozart's death, the massive work will enter into a dialogue with the "Musique funèbre" by Polish composer Witold Lutosławski, a touching piece of funeral music in memory of his Hungarian colleague Béla Bartók. The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg performs together with the Bach Choir Salzburg under the direction of Pablo Heras-Casado. He is assisted on stage by soprano Emily Pogorelc, mezzo-soprano Corinna Scheurle, tenor Sunnyboy Dladla and bass Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, an excellent ensemble of singers.
The Dialoge Festival then celebrates contemporary music for an entire weekend (June 7-9): The three-day festival takes aim at "Intercultural Influences on (New) Music." What influence did Mozart have on later composers? How and when did the spiritual music of the Sufists from Turkey and Syria find its way to Europe? And how did texts by the pre-Columbian poet, philosopher and ruler Nezahualcóyotl find their way into a contemporary song cycle? Andrei Gologan & Friends combine works by Mozart with Enescu and Kurtág. Peter Martens on violoncello and Ariane Haering on piano bring music from South Africa's metropolis Cape Town. The ensemble Baltic Essential Strings, soprano Rebeca Olvera, Rolando Villazón (tenor & moderator) and Sarah Tysman on piano take a musical journey from Mexico to the Baltic States. At this sofa concert, the festival motto couldn't be more apt in appearance: French composer Inès Halimi sets poems by a Mexican nun to music, British recording artist Iain Bell puts Nahuatl poetry to music, and Austrian violinist Sebastian Gürtler transforms old Baltic folk songs into new works for string quartet. And the closing concert "From the moon to the fish" with the Hathor Consort explores the spiritual music of the Sufists from Turkey and Syria, which also found its way to Europe in the Middle Ages.
Ticket information:
The 2023/24 concert program is available at www.mozarteum.at. Tickets are available now. Individual tickets for the concerts/events range from € 10 to € 80.
NEW: The International Mozarteum Foundation and all performing artists are keen to offer young people up to the age of 29 the opportunity to experience exciting live concerts in a wide variety of formats and settings. For this reason, young concertgoers under the age of 30 can purchase one-way tickets for € 10, while all other concertgoers under the age of 30 are entitled to a 50% discount, subject to category availability.