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9 unusual facts about Mozarteum University of Salzburg


Boštjan Lipovšek

He improved with Radovan Vlatković at the Salzburg Mozarteum.

DuoArtus

His postgraduate studies were with Irena Grafenauer at the Mozarteum Salzburg University and with Wolfgang Schulz at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Florin Cezar Ouatu

Son of the late flautist and former teacher at Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Florin Ouatu, he was born into a family of musicians in Ploieşti.

Géza Anda

In the mid-1950s, Anda gave masterclasses at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and in 1960 he took the position of director of the Lucerne masterclasses, succeeding Edwin Fischer.

Irma Kliauzaitė

Kliauzaite graduated in the Salzburg's Mozarteum in 1996, and was decorated the Mozarteum Foundation's Bernhard Paumgartner-Medal.

Klaus Kaufmann

Since 2000, Kaufmann is titled the Professor of Piano at the Mozarteum University for Music and the Performing Arts of Salzburg.

Mary Bothwell

In 1937 she went to Austria to study singing at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.

Norman Shetler

He is in constant demand for masterclasses in America, Asia and Europe, and particularly at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.

Tanja Becker-Bender

She received her instrumental education by Helmut Zehetmair at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg, Wilhelm Melcher in Stuttgart, by David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Günter Pichler at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.


Gerhard Wimberger

After World War II, in which he served in the army, he worked as vocal coach at the Vienna Volksoper, then as conductor at the Salzburg Theatre, before becoming a teacher for conducting and composition at the Mozarteum.

Markus Hinterhäuser

He studied music at the Vienna Conservatory under Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg under Oleg Maisenberg.


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