Senate

Overview

The Senate is one of the three governing bodies of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, along with the Rectorate and the University Council. The 18 members of the Senate are the elected representatives of their respective curiae or – in the case of the student members – the students’ union. The senate is composed of nine professors, four non-professorial teaching staff, one representative of the university employees and four students.

Senate of the Mozarteum University

+43 676 88122 411
rosa.hintermaier@moz.ac.at

Mirabellplatz 1
5020 Salzburg

Links (german)

Members

Christoph Lepschy

Univ.-Prof. of Dramaturgy / Chair of the Senate

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Faculty

Britta Bauer

Private Docent for Flute / Head of Pre-College / Chair of the Curriculum Committee (Performance) / Member of the Curriculum Committee (Pedagogy)

Senate

Deputy Department Head

Faculty

Curriculum Committee

William Coleman

Univ.-Prof. of Viola / Head of Viola Studies

Senate

Deputy Department Head

Faculty

Paul Feigelfeld

Professor of Digitality and Cultural Pedagogy (Media Studies) / Representative for Good Academic Practice

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Faculty

Isabel Gabbe

Univ.-Prof. of Piano and Piano Didactics

Senate

Department Head

Faculty

Anna Maria Kalcher

Univ.-Prof. of Elemental Music & Dance Education

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Department Head

Faculty

Curriculum Committee

Tünde Kurucz

A.o. Univ.-Prof. of Piano and Chamber Music

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Faculty

AKG

Iris Laner

Univ.-Prof. of Pedagogy (Art Education)

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Faculty

Andrea Lienbacher

First Vice-Chair of the Students’ Union

Senate

ÖH Mozarteum

Leo Mayrhuber

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ÖH Mozarteum

Gernot Sahler

Univ.-Prof. of Opera Studies

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Department Head

Faculty

Barbara Schwarz-Raminger

Senate

Service department management

Employee

Pauliina Tukiainen

Univ.-Prof. of Lied Interpretation

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Faculty

Maximilian Volbers

Senior Lecturer / Deputy Head of Mozart:Forum

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Faculty

Dustin Arnold Waskow

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Yvonne Wasserloos

Univ.-Prof. of Musicology

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Department Head

Faculty

Dario Zingales

Senior Lecturer for Clarinet & Chamber Music

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Faculty

Julia Vogel

Chair of the Students‘ Union / Second Vice-Chair of the Senate

ÖH Mozarteum

Senate

News

1.7.2025

Christoph Lepschy re-elected as Chairman of the Senate

On 18th June 2025, members of the various curiae of the Mozarteum University voted for their representatives in the senate for the term from 1st October 2025 – 30th September 2028. At the constitutive meeting on 27th June, Univ.-Prof. Christoph Lepschy was elected as Senate Chair for the third time.

Press release
30.6.2023

More courage to be open to the world

Since June 14, 2023, a right-wing populist party has been a legitimate part of the Salzburg state government. The Senate of the Mozarteum University Salzburg is following with concern the extremist expressions and exclusionary attitudes that are thus finding their way into key political positions in our federal state, not least with a view to the signal effect of this coalition in terms of federal policy and its international external impact.

News
14.3.2023

Protest against the closure of the RSO

The Senate of the Mozarteum University joins the protests against a closure of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra with all vehemence. The RSO Vienna forms an indispensable building block of the Austrian cultural scene and functions especially and above all in the field of new music as an important commissioner and premiere performer.

News
18.10.2022

Honorary professorship awarded to Maria Kalesnikava

Since the beginning of the year, the project "Practicing Care" has been focusing on the transnational social responsibility of a university of the arts with a variety of activities. Exemplary for these activities is the awarding of an honorary professorship by the Senate of the Mozarteum University to the Belarusian flautist, pedagogue and civil rights activist Maria Kalesnikava, who was sentenced to 11 years of penal colony in her home country. Dorothee Oberlinger and Olga Shparaga, among others, will participate in the program of the ceremony on October 30.

Press release
21.6.2022

Practicing Care: Solidarity Network of an Arts University

Press release
6.3.2021

Autonomy under threat?

With the takeover of the University of Theater and Cinematography Budapest by a foundation close to the government, a movement is beginning in Hungary that has long since become a European issue - the preservation of the autonomy of the university and education.

Interview

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Term of Office 1.10.2025–30.9.2028

(alphabetical order)

University professors

COLEMAN William
FEIGELFELD Paul
GABBE Isabel
KALCHER Anna Maria
LANER Iris
LEPSCHY Christoph
SAHLER Gernot
TUKIAINEN Pauliina
WASSERLOOS Yvonne

University lecturers, academic and artistic staff in research, art and teaching

BAUER Britta
KURUCZ Tünde
VOLBERS Maximilian
ZINGALES Dario

Students

LIENBACHER Andrea
MAYRHUBER Leonard Paul
VOGEL Julia
WASKOW Dustin Arnold

General university staff

SCHWARZ-RAMINGER Barbara

University professors

Liste Zehn. Professor*innen aus zehn Departments. Fachübergreifende Kompetenz aus Musik, Theater, Bildende Kunst, Pädagogik und Wissenschaft

LOSERT Martin
HIENDL Laure
STREHL Christoph
OBERLINGER Dorothee
STAUD Johannes Maria
FORTHUBER Corina
HOFMEIR Andreas
BINDER Hanna
BARTOLOMEY Matthias

MOZ next

LEHMANN Claudia
WALLNER Franziska
SCHMIRL Elisabeth
RAZAVI Muriel
LINDINGER Christopher
GRÜNWALD Jan Guido
ANDRESEN Jörn Hinnerk
ENGL Beate
GIOTI Artemi-Maria

University lecturers and academic and artistic staff in research, art and teaching

Zukunft Mozarteum

WAHL Volker
ANGELOVA Božena
FUCHSBERGER Martin August
PODGOREANU Florian Sebastian
KIM Wonji
MORENO Patricia

DIE MITTE

HARTINGER Yvonne
KLEINER Gereon
GAHL Anneliese-Clara
BLAUL Irina
URTHALER-JANSA Agnes

General university staff

MOZ – Mehr offene Zusammenarbeit

PRUCHER Susanne
PANKOW Henning

senate - Konferenz der Senatsvorsitzenden der österreichischen Universitäten

Term of office until 30/09/2025

Curriculum Committee for Stage Design
Chair
Univ.-Prof. DI(FH) Henrik Ahr
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Prof. Susanne Steinmaßl Dipl. BAMA
Curriculum Committee for Performing Arts, Acting, Directing, Applied Theatre
Chair
Professor Kai Ohrem
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Prof. Ulrike Hatzer
Curriculum Committee for Conducting, Composition and Music Theory
Chair
David Paulig
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Juliane Brandes MAS
Curriculum Committee for Vocal Studies, Opera, Lied and Oratorio
Chair
Professor Christoph Strehl
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Prof. Kai Röhrig
Curriculum Committee for Instrumental & Vocal Pedagogy
Chair
Univ.-Prof. Dr Martin Losert
Deputy Chair
Regina Prasser MA
Curriculum Committee for Elemental Music and Dance Pedagogy
Chair
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Maria Kalcher
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Prof. MMag. Anna Töller BA
Curriculum Committee for Instrumental Studies
Chair
Priv.-Doz. Britta Bauer BA MA
Deputy Chair
Professor Matthias Bartolomey
Curriculum Committee for Teacher Training in Music Education/Instrumental Music Education Salzburg
Chair
Professor Andreas Bernhofer (PhD)
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Ass. Mag. Elisabeth Wieland MA
Curriculum Committee for Teacher Training in Music Education/Instrumental Music Education Innsbruck
Chair
Mag. Reinhard Blum
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mag. Julia Wienecke
Curriculum Committee for Teacher Training in Visual Arts Education, Design: Technology.Textiles
Chair
Associate Professor MMag. Bernhard Gwiggner
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Freiss
Curriculum Committee for the PhD Programme
Chair
Associate Professor Dr. Wolfgang Gratzer
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mag. Julia Wienecke
Curriculum Committee for the PhD in the Arts Programme
Chair
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Artemi-Maria Gioti BAMA
Curriculum Committee for the Interuniversity PhD Programme
Chair
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Peter Deutschmann (Universität Salzburg)
Deputy Chair
Ass.-Prof. Mag. Katharina Anzengruber PhD MA
Curriculum Committee for Transdisciplinary Arts
Chair
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Lehmann
Deputy Chair
Univ.-Prof. Gregor Neuerer