18 Notable alumni of Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna
Updated: May 26, 2026 EliteDegrees
Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna is ranked #7,587 in the world and #47 in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Ilona Eibenschütz
1872-1967 (aged 95)
pianist
Ilona Eibenschütz was a Hungarian pianist.
2. Charlotte Eisler
1894-1970 (aged 76)
singer
Charlotte Eisler was an Austrian singer, pianist and music teacher associated with the Second Viennese School.
3. Saskia Hölbling
1971-. (aged 55)
choreographer
dancer
Saskia Hölbling is an Austrian choreographer and dancer (contemporary dance)
4. Paul Badura-Skoda
1927-2019 (aged 92)
music educator
conductor
composer
pianist
musicologist
Paul Badura-Skoda was an Austrian pianist.
5. Julian Rachlin
1974-. (aged 52)
violist
conductor
violinist
university teacher
Julian Mikhaylovich Rachlin is a Lithuanian-born violinist, violist and conductor.
6. Elisabeth Engstler
1960-. (aged 66)
singer
television presenter
Elisabeth "Lizzi" Engstler is an Austrian television presenter, music performer and singer who took part in the Eurovision Song Contest with the duo Mess in 1982.
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7. Louie Austen
1947-. (aged 79)
singer
actor
musician
Louie Austen is an Austrian classically trained bar and jazz crooner who has been active in the electronic music scene.
8. Marika Lichter
1949-. (aged 77)
singer
actor
film actor
Marika Lichter is an Austrian singer and actress who was popular as a pop singer in the early 1970s, before moving into musicals and acting. Her career experienced a revival from 2006 with Dancing Stars.
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9. Doris Uhlich
1977-. (aged 49)
dance teacher
performance artist
dancer
theatrical director
choreographer
Doris Uhlich' is an internationally active Austrian choreographer, performer and dance teacher.
10. Gregor Huebner
1967-. (aged 59)
composer
jazz violinist
jazz pianist
pianist
Gregor Huebner is a violinist, pianist and composer. He performs solo and with several ensembles including El Violin Latino, Sirius Quartet, Berta Epple and Salsafuerte. From 1985 to 2012 he was a member of Tango Five. He is a professor of composition at the University for Music and Theater in Munich, Germany. In 2017 he received the Grand Prize for...
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11. Lea Birringer
1986-. (aged 40)
violinist
Lea Birringer is a German classical violinist and professor at the University of Music Würzburg.
12. Anna Unterberger
1985-. (aged 41)
film actor
actor
stage actor
Anna Unterberger is an Italian actress from Bozen.
13. Elfriede Ott
1925-2019 (aged 94)
actor
film actor
theatrical director
stage actor
film director
Elfriede Ott was an Austrian actress, singer, stage director and instructor. She was born in Vienna, and was married twice; first to Ernst Waldbrunn, and second to Hans Weigel. She was originally educated as watchmaker, in order to take over her father's workshop. She made her stage debut at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1944, which was the start of a...
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14. Peter Horton
1953-. (aged 73)
television director
film director
director
actor
Peter Müller, better known by the stage name Peter Horton, was an Austrian guitarist, singer, composer, and writer, noted for representing Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 with the song "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt". The song scored 2 points to finish joint 14th place out of 17 entries.
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15. JJ
2001-. (aged 25)
singer
songwriter
Johannes Pietsch, also known by his stage name JJ, is an Austrian singer. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 for Austria with the song "Wasted Love".
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16. Elfriede Jelinek
1946-. (aged 80)
playwright
literary critic
librettist
writer
translator
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is considered to...
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17. Verena Altenberger
1987-. (aged 39)
stage actor
film actor
Verena Altenberger is an Austrian actress. She is known for having played the lead role in the 2017 film The Best of All Worlds (Die beste aller Welten).
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18. Joe Zawinul
1932-2007 (aged 75)
composer
jazz musician
pianist
keyboardist
organist
Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He co-founded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He pioneered the...
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