Anton Bruckner University

The Anton Bruckner University is one of five Austrian Universities for Music, Drama and Dance, and one of four universities in Linz, the European Capital of Culture 2009. 850 students from all parts of the world study here. They are taught by 200 Professors and teaching staff, who are internationally recognised artists, academics and teachers.The ABPU is a university for music, drama and dance. The artistic work of the university is focussed on performing, pedagogy and research in each of these fields, with an equal emphasis on artistic communication, development and outreach.The ABPU is committed to the promotion of innovation, but also to the nurture of tradition. The university thus sees itself both as a flexible, future-oriented experimental laboratory of the arts and as a place where the cultural heritage of the past is maintained, examined and communicated through performance. The cross-fertilization of the historical and the contemporary produces a remarkable creative potential in the fields of performance, pedagogy and research.As an institute for artistic education the ABPU is committed to the idea of lifelong learning. This concept embraces not only the acquisition of professional competence, but also the development of social skills. Alongside the range of classical study courses on offer the ABPU also has a vigorous framework for the promotion of the younger generation (the academy for gifted young performers) as well as offering many possibilities for further training in the form of master courses and work study opportunities.