Following the audition which took place on May 11, 2011, at The National University of Music in Bucharest, in the presence of Mrs. Elisabeth Cornelius Lund, soprano Iulia Dan, student of NUMB, won the scholarship awarded by the Salzburg Vokal Akdemie. The scholarship gives the young soprano the opportunity to participate in 2011 to a masterclass within Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Salzburg.