List of University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni

The following is a list of notable University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni.

Notable alumni

Conductors

• Alexander Alexeev
• Philippe Auguin
• Claudio Abbado
• Alan Buribayev
• James Erb
• James Allen Gähres
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt
• Jascha Horenstein
• Mariss Jansons
• Herbert von Karajan
• Clemens Krauss
• Uroš Lajovic
• Jesús López Cobos
• Gustav Mahler
• Zubin Mehta
• Felix Mottl
• Arthur Nikisch
• Andrés Orozco-Estrada
• Erwin Ortner
• Kirill Petrenko
• Johannes Wildner
• Hans Richter
• Georg Tintner
• Josep Caballé Domenech
• Donald Covert
• Mario Venzago
• Oliver von Dohnányi
• Karel Mark Chichon
• Manfred Honeck
• Walter Weller
• Alexander Rahbari
• Shardad Rohani

Composers

• Miguel del Águila
• Nicolae Bretan
• Friedrich Cerha
• George Enescu
• Marios Joannou Elia
• Iván Erőd
• Beat Furrer
• Karl Goldmark
• Róbert Gulya
• Georg Friedrich Haas
• Paul Haslinger
• Géza Horváth (composer)
• Leoš Janáček
• Gustav Mahler
• Alireza Mashayekhi
• Ahmad Pejman
• Ezio Bosso
• Thomas Larcher
• Hans Rott
• Heinrich Schalit
• Kurt Schwertsik
• Jean Sibelius
• Mauricio Sotelo
• Ferdi Statzer
• Johannes Maria Staud
• Mimi Wagensonner
• Norma Wendelburg
• Johannes Winkler
• Hugo Wolf
• Alexander von Zemlinsky

Pianists and organists

• Miguel del Águila
• Khatia Buniatishvili
• Rudolf Buchbinder
• Helmut Deutsch
• Matthias Fletzberger
• Friedrich Gulda
• Mitsuko Uchida
• Maciej Łukaszczyk
• Christiana Lin
• Wayne Marshall
• Peter Planyavsky
• Wolfgang Sauseng
• Paul Weingarten
• Erik Werba

String players

• Christoph Koncz
• Joseph Joachim
• Oskar Back
• Johanna Beisteiner
• Carl Flesch
• Gareth Koch
• Leon Koudelak
• Fritz Kreisler
• Johannes Wildner
• Heinrich Schiff
• Günter Pichler
• Dragomir Krančević
• Joji Hattori
• Manfred Honeck
• Ludwig Streicher
• Walter Weller
• Friedrich Buxbaum
• Georg Hellmesberger Sr.
• Ricardo Odnoposoff
• Arnold Rosé
• Rainer Küchl
• Shkelzen Doli

David grunschlag

Wind, brass, and percussion

• Thomas Gansch
• Johann Hindler
• Ernst Ottensamer
• Carole Dawn Reinhart

Singers

• Walter Berry
• Mimi Coertse
• Kieth Engen
• Antonia Fahberg
• Anny Felbermayer
• Marie Fillunger ^[1]
• Aida Garifullina
• Agnieszka Gertner-Polak
• Ernst Gutstein
• Liviu Holender
• Wolfgang Holzmair
• Angelika Kirchschlager
• Gabrielle Krauss
• Genia Kühmeier
• Elisabeth Kulman
• Kari Løvaas
• Aga Mikolaj
• Lula Mysz-Gmeiner
• Anna Nekhames
• Cristina Pasaroiu
• Kurt Rydl
• Andreas Schager
• Michael Spyres
• Linda Watson (soprano)

Film and theatre

• Barbara Albert
• Achim Benning
• Emily Cox
• Katharina Mückstein ^{[2] [3]}
• Max Steiner
• Robert O. Ragland
• Sophie Rois
• Ulrich Seidl
• Christoph Waltz

Other

• Stephanie Goldner
• Susana Naidich
• Leopold Nowak
• Heinrich Schenker
• Elisabeth Wärnfeldt
• Josef Venantius von Wöss

References

1. Manchester Faces and Places. Vol. XVI No. 2. Manchester: Geo. Woodhead and Co. February 1905. pp. 44–45.
2. "L'ANIMALE | Luxembourg City Film Festival". Luxembourg City Film Festival. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
3. Hausbichler, Beate (12 September 2013). "Katharina Mückstein: "Die Discoszene mit Nina Proll ist natürlich ein Zitat"". Der Standard (in German).