18 Notable alumni of
Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna
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The Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna is 1192nd in the world, 428th in Europe, and 11th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from the 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.
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JJ
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- singersongwriter
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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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Elfriede Jelinek
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- playwrightliterary criticlibrettistwritertranslator
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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 be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.
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Verena Altenberger
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- stage actorfilm actor
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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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Joe Zawinul
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- composerjazz musicianpianistkeyboardistorganist
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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 use of electric piano and synthesizer, and was named "Best Electric Keyboardist" twenty-eight times by the readers of DownBeat magazine.
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Anna Unterberger
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Anna Unterberger is an Italian actress from Bozen.
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Elfriede Ott
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- actorfilm actortheatrical directorstage actorfilm director
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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 long career in theatre. She also occasionally played in operettes and in numerous television productions, and she had assignments as stage director. From 1985 to 2004 she gave theatre lectures at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Ott received several awards, including the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria, as well as the titles Kammerschauspielerin and Professor.
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Peter Horton
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- singerguitaristwritercomposerstring player
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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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Paul Badura-Skoda
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- music educatorconductorcomposerpianistmusicologist
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Paul Badura-Skoda was an Austrian pianist.
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Julian Rachlin
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- violistconductorviolinistuniversity teacher
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Julian Mikhaylovich Rachlin is a Lithuanian-born violinist, violist and conductor.
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Elisabeth Engstler
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- singertelevision presenter
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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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Louie Austen
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- singeractormusician
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Louie Austen is an Austrian classically trained bar and jazz crooner who has been active in the electronic music scene.
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Marika Lichter
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- singeractorfilm actor
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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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Doris Uhlich
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- dance teacherperformance artistdancertheatrical directorchoreographer
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Doris Uhlich' is an internationally active Austrian choreographer, performer and dance teacher.
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Gregor Huebner
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- composerjazz violinistjazz pianistpianist
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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 New York Philharmonic's New World Initiative Composition Challenge for his composition “New World, Nov 9. 2016.”
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Lea Birringer
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- violinist
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Lea Birringer is a German classical violinist and professor at the University of Music Würzburg.
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Ilona Eibenschütz
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- pianist
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Ilona Eibenschütz was a Hungarian pianist.
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Charlotte Eisler
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- singer
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Charlotte Eisler was an Austrian singer, pianist and music teacher associated with the Second Viennese School.
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Saskia Hölbling
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- choreographerdancer
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Saskia Hölbling is an Austrian choreographer and dancer (contemporary dance)
