17 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 1263rd in the world, 435th in Europe, and 11th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 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.

  1. Elfriede Jelinek

    Elfriede Jelinek
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    translatorwriterlibrettistliterary criticplaywright
    Biography

    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.

  2. Joe Zawinul

    Joe Zawinul
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1932-2007 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    jazz musiciancomposerrecording artistorganistkeyboardist
    Biography

    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.

  3. Verena Altenberger

    Verena Altenberger
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1987-.. (age 37)
    Occupations
    film actorstage actor
    Biography

    Verena Altenberger is an Austrian actress.

  4. Anna Unterberger

    Anna Unterberger
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1985-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    actorfilm actorstage actor
    Biography

    Anna Unterberger is an Italian actress from Bozen.

  5. Peter Horton

    Peter Horton
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1941-2023 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    composerwriterguitaristsingermusician
    Biography

    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".

  6. Elfriede Ott

    Elfriede Ott
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1925-2019 (aged 94)
    Occupations
    film actorstage actor
    Biography

    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.

  7. Paul Badura-Skoda

    Paul Badura-Skoda
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1927-2019 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    musicologistpianistcomposerconductormusic teacher
    Biography

    Paul Badura-Skoda was an Austrian pianist.

  8. Julian Rachlin

    Julian Rachlin
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    conductorviolistuniversity teacherviolinist
    Biography

    Julian Rachlin is a Lithuanian-born violinist, violist and conductor.

  9. Louie Austen

    Louie Austen
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    actorsingermusician
    Biography

    Louie Austen is an Austrian classically trained bar and jazz crooner who has been active in the electronic music scene.

  10. María Dueñas

    María Dueñas
    Born in
    Spain Flag Spain
    Years
    2002-.. (age 22)
    Occupations
    violinist
    Biography

    María Dueñas Fernández is a Spanish violinist and composer. In 2021 she won the first prize in the Yehudi Menuhin Competition, in the senior category. She is considered the Spanish violinist with the greatest international profile, and one of the most promising musicians of her generation. In 2022 she signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon.

  11. Marika Lichter

    Marika Lichter
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    actorsingerfilm actor
    Biography

    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.

  12. Gregor Huebner

    Gregor Huebner
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    pianistcomposer
    Biography

    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.”

  13. Doris Uhlich

    Doris Uhlich
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    performance artistchoreographer
    Biography

    Doris Uhlich' is an internationally active Austrian choreographer, performer and dance teacher.

  14. Lea Birringer

    Lea Birringer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1986-.. (age 38)
    Occupations
    musicianviolinist
    Biography

    Lea Birringer is a German classical violinist.

  15. Charlotte Eisler

    Charlotte Eisler
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1894-1970 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    singer
    Biography

    Charlotte Eisler was an Austrian singer, pianist and music teacher associated with the Second Viennese School.

  16. Saskia Hölbling

    Saskia Hölbling
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    dancerchoreographer
    Biography

    Saskia Hölbling is an Austrian choreographer and dancer (contemporary dance)

  17. Michael Radanovics

    Michael Radanovics
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    composer
    Biography

    Michael Radanovics is an Austrian violinist (jazz and classic) and composer.