Making music together in an ensemble as large as an orchestra brings with it numerous challenges and requires flexibility, the ability to work in a team, and the willingness to engage with each other.

It was in 1928 that the “Acting and Directing Seminar”, founded and subsequently headed by Max Reinhardt, officially set up shop at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn.

“I’m afraid of…” isn’t necessarily something that’s easy to say. But even so, we all know it: anxiety. Anxieties—along with bouts of their more immediate cousin, fear—accompany many of us our whole lives long. Some of these we succeed in overcoming, while others we might even turn out to need a bit, and still others seem impossible to shake.

The 22-year-old pianist Maximilian Kromer is the sixth CARSA winner.

The International Fritz Kreisler Society has been holding its competition every four years since 1979.

This is Vienna’s first and only singing competition devoted exclusively to Austrian composers’ Lied (art song) output.

25 musicians from 15 countries qualified to participate in this renowned competition.

Those who believe that church music consists simply of a few songs that they once heard in church, might be quite surprised indeed to learn just how diverse musica sacra can be.