51 Notable alumni of Mozarteum University Salzburg
Updated: May 26, 2026 EliteDegrees
Mozarteum University Salzburg is ranked #3,676 in the world and #28 in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from Mozarteum University Salzburg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Mozarteum University Salzburg won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Achim Holub
1966-. (aged 60)
conductor
Achim Holub is an Austrian conductor.
2. Thomas Stumpf
1950-. (aged 76)
composer
pianist
conductor
music educator
Thomas Stumpf is a classical pianist in the Boston area. He is also a conductor, composer, author, and teacher.
3. Kate Buchdahl
1964-1992 (aged 28)
musician
Kate Buchdahl was a classically trained Australian violinist.
4. Patrick Fournillier
1954-. (aged 72)
conductor
musician
Patrick Fournillier is a French conductor, particularly associated with opera and with the works of Jules Massenet.
5. Karola Obermueller
1977-. (aged 49)
composer
university teacher
Karola Obermueller is a German composer and teacher.
6. Herbert Willi
1956-. (aged 70)
composer
Herbert Willi is an Austrian composer of classical music, whose orchestral works, concertos and chamber music have been performed internationally and also recorded. Willi composed an opera, Schlafes Bruder, for the Opernhaus Zürich.
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7. Henri Arends
1921-1994 (aged 73)
violinist
conductor
Henri Arends was a Dutch conductor.
8. Irina Kulikova
1982-. (aged 44)
classical guitarist
Irina Kulikova is a Russian classical guitarist.
9. Charles Ansbacher
1942-2010 (aged 68)
conductor
Charles Ansbacher was an American conductor. After undergraduate and graduate work at Brown University ('65) and the University of Cincinnati (M.M. 1968, D.M.A. 1979), he studied conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Ansbacher was the conductor and musical director of the Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra from 1970 to 1989, and, in 2000, founded the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, which gives...
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10. Ferdi Statzer
1906-1974 (aged 68)
pianist
Ferdi Statzer was an eminent Austrian pedagogue, pianist, conductor and composer. A native Viennese, his musical career transplanted him to Turkey, where he became an influential teacher to a generation of pianists.
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11. György Fischer
1935-2020 (aged 85)
conductor
pianist
György Fischer was a Hungarian pianist and conductor.
12. Iñigo Pírfano
1973-. (aged 53)
composer
conductor
lecturer
writer
Íñigo Pírfano is a Spanish conductor, born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1973.
13. Luz Leskowitz
1943-. (aged 83)
violinist
Luz Leskowitz is an Austrian violinist, founder of the Salzburg Soloists music ensemble. He is the owner of the ex-Prihoda Stradivarius violin made in 1707.
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14. Luca Pianca
1958-. (aged 68)
lutenist
Luca Pianca is a Swiss musician-lutenist whose specialty is archlute. In 1985 he co - founded Il Giardino Armonico, a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan. He has premiered works by the contemporary lutenist-composer Roman Turovsky-Savchuk at international festivals, and received numerous international awards for his recordings.
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15. Leopold Hager
1935-. (aged 91)
conductor
university teacher
Leopold Hager is an Austrian conductor known for his interpretations of works by the Viennese Classics (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert).
16. Frédéric Chaslin
1963-. (aged 63)
pianist
conductor
composer
Frédéric Chaslin is a French conductor, composer and pianist.
17. Irena Yebuah Tiran
1974-. (aged 52)
singer
music educator
opera singer
Irena Yebuah Tiran is a Slovenian mezzo-soprano opera singer of Ghanaian descent.
18. Marjon Lambriks
1949-. (aged 77)
opera singer
Marjon Lambriks is a Dutch soprano who made an international career, especially in Austria. Her focus became operetta, whether performed on stage, for the radio, or in recordings. She recorded the role of Annina in Verdi's La traviata alongside Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti.
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19. Piero Bellugi
1924-2012 (aged 88)
conductor
Piero Bellugi was an Italian orchestral conductor.
20. Gerhard Wimberger
1923-2016 (aged 93)
university teacher
conductor
composer
Gerhard Wimberger was an Austrian composer and conductor.
21. Valentina Babor
1989-. (aged 37)
pianist
Valentina Babor is a German classical pianist. She began performing before audiences and winning youth competitions as a child. At 12, she was accepted by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum, where she became part of the university's "Initiative Hochbegabten-Förderung", a program for highly gifted students. In 2009, barely an adult, she played Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto in C minor in concert....
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22. Lana Trotovšek
1983-. (aged 43)
violinist
Lana Trotovšek is a London-based Slovenian violinist. She is a soloist and chamber musician who has performed around the world. She plays on a violin made by Pietro Antonio dalla Costa from Treviso in 1750.
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23. Sergey Malov
1983-. (aged 43)
violinist
violist
Sergey Olegovich Malov is a Russian/Hungarian violinist and violist.
24. Giorgi Latsabidze
1978-. (aged 48)
musician
pianist
film score composer
composer
music educator
Giorgi Latso is a Georgian-American concert pianist, film composer, arranger, adjudicator, improviser and Doctor of Musical Arts. Latso has won several international piano competitions and awards. He is best known for his interpretations of Chopin and Debussy. He is a founder & CEO of Amadeus International Foundation. His concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in Europe, Asia, and...
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25. Wilma Lipp
1925-2019 (aged 94)
opera singer
Wilma Lipp was an Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. A long-time member of the Vienna State Opera, she was particularly associated with the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, a role she performed internationally more than 400 times. She was awarded the title Kammersängerin at age 28, and was an honorary member of...
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26. Antonio Janigro
1918-1989 (aged 71)
music educator
conductor
cellist
Antonio Janigro was an Italian cellist and conductor.
27. Otmar Suitner
1922-2010 (aged 88)
pianist
conductor
music director
Otmar Suitner was an Austrian conductor who spent most of his professional career in East Germany. He was born in Innsbruck and died in Berlin. He was principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden from 1960 to 1964, and then music director at the Berlin State Opera in East Berlin from 1964 to 1990. He was concurrently chief conductor of the...
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28. Christiane Karg
1980-. (aged 46)
opera singer
performing artist
Christiane Karg is a German operatic soprano. The award-winning singer became known for performing Mozart roles at the Salzburg Festival, and made an international career.
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29. Jean-François Paillard
1928-2013 (aged 85)
composer
conductor
Jean-François Paillard was a French conductor.
30. Kerstin Meyer
1928-2020 (aged 92)
opera singer
illustrator
Kerstin Margareta Meyer, CBE was a Swedish mezzo-soprano who enjoyed an international career in opera and concert. A long-time member of the Royal Swedish Opera and Hamburg State Opera, she appeared regularly at the Royal Opera House in London and international opera houses and festivals, including in world premieres such as Alexander Goehr's Arden Must Die and György Ligeti's Le...
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31. Teresa Präauer
1979-. (aged 47)
painter
illustrator
writer
Teresa Präauer is an Austrian writer and visual artist.
32. Markus Hinterhäuser
1958-. (aged 68)
pianist
performing artist
musician
Markus Hinterhäuser is an Austrian pianist and the current artistic director of the Salzburg Festival. He studied music at the Vienna Conservatory under Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg under Oleg Maisenberg. As a chamber musician, he has performed with several notable performers, including the Arditti Quartet and singer Brigitte Fassbaender. As a piano soloist he is particularly...
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33. Camilla Nylund
1968-. (aged 58)
opera singer
Camilla Nylund is a Finnish operatic soprano. She appears internationally in lyric-dramatic roles such as Beethoven's Leonore, Verdi's Elisabetta, and Wagner's Elisabeth and Sieglinde. She is especially known for portraying leading female characters in operas by Richard Strauss, (e.g. Marschallin, Arabella, Ariadne and Countess Madeleine). She has appeared at international festivals and the openings of the Dresdner Frauenkirche and the...
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34. Angelika Kirchschlager
1965-. (aged 61)
opera singer
university teacher
Angelika Kirchschlager is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer.
35. Helena Adler
1983-2024 (aged 41)
painter
pedagogue
writer
novelist
art educator
Helena Este Adler was an Austrian writer and visual artist.
36. Erich Leinsdorf
1912-1993 (aged 81)
conductor
Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. He also published books and essays on musical matters.
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37. Ingrid Haebler
1929-2023 (aged 94)
pianist
music educator
university teacher
Ingrid Haebler was an Austrian classical pianist.
38. Alice Harnoncourt
1930-2022 (aged 92)
violinist
viola d'amore player
concertmaster
Alice Harnoncourt was an Austrian classical violinist. She was a pioneer in the movement of historically informed performance, founding with her husband Nikolaus Harnoncourt the Concentus Musicus Wien ensemble playing on period instruments, of which she was principal violinist.
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39. Tabea Zimmermann
1966-. (aged 60)
university teacher
music educator
violist
Tabea Zimmermann is a German violist who has performed internationally, both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She has been artist in residence of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Zimmermann founded the Arcanto Quartet, a string quartet that performed until 2016. Several composers have written music for her, including György...
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40. Karl Merkatz
1930-2022 (aged 92)
stage actor
actor
writer
editor
joiner
Karl Merkatz was an Austrian actor.
41. Erwin Wurm
1954-. (aged 72)
draftsperson
university teacher
photojournalist
installation artist
sculptor
Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist. He lives and works in Vienna and Limberg in Austria; Hydra, Greece; and in New York City.
42. Irmin Schmidt
1937-. (aged 89)
film score composer
conductor
composer
university teacher
pianist
Irmin Schmidt is a German keyboardist and composer, best known as a founding member of the Krautrock band Can and composer of numerous film scores. Following the death of Can's second lead vocalist Damo Suzuki in February 2024, Schmidt is one of two surviving former members of the band, alongside original vocalist Malcolm Mooney.
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43. Tatjana Kästel
1982-. (aged 44)
actor
film actor
Tatjana Kästel is a German actress who currently plays Rebecca von Lahnstein on the hit German show Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love).
44. Carl Orff
1895-1982 (aged 87)
librettist
composer
university teacher
musicologist
music theorist
Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was a German composer and music educator, who composed the cantata Carmina Burana (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education.
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45. Thomas Bernhard
1931-1989 (aged 58)
linguist
poet
screenwriter
writer
novelist
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often...
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46. Alice Sara Ott
1988-. (aged 38)
classical pianist
Alice Sara Ott is a German-Japanese pianist.
47. Igor Levit
1987-. (aged 39)
pianist
music educator
musician
Igor Levit is a Russian-German pianist who focuses on the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt. He is also a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover. He lives in Berlin.
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48. Herbert Feuerstein
1937-2020 (aged 83)
television presenter
film actor
comedian
stage actor
journalist
Herbert Feuerstein was a German journalist, comedian and entertainer of Austrian descent. He was known as a publisher of the pardon satire magazine, as the editor of the German version of Mad, and for comedy work on television, especially as partner to Harald Schmidt in shows such as Schmidteinander.
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49. Herbert von Karajan
1908-1989 (aged 81)
theatrical director
film director
conductor
music director
Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during World War II he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he...
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50. Daniel Barenboim
1942-. (aged 84)
conductor
pianist
music director
musician
Daniel Moses Barenboim is an Argentinian-born classical pianist and conductor with Spanish, Israeli and Palestinian citizenship. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin.
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51. Lea Birringer
1986-. (aged 40)
violinist
Lea Birringer is a German classical violinist and professor at the University of Music Würzburg.