Priv.-Doz.
Martin A. Fuchsberger
MA
Martin August Fuchsberger has taught at Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2011, where he specialises in wind band conducting. From autumn 2026, he will join the Conducting Department as University Assistant to Christian Thielemann in orchestral conducting, working alongside Jobst Schneiderat. As a conductor, he has performed with orchestras including the Vienna and Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bucheon Symphony Orchestra.
Fuchsberger received broad musical training in Salzburg, studying violin and voice as well as piano, horn, organ and music theory at the Musisches Gymnasium, the Salzburg Music School and Mozarteum University. He subsequently studied orchestral and choral conducting, voice and church music at the music universities in Vienna. He completed his bachelor's degree in conducting in 2005 and a master's degree at Konservatorium Wien University in 2008. He has also participated in masterclasses with conductors including Jakov Kreizberg, Jerome Preysinger and Daniel Barenboim.
Fuchsberger completed his habilitation in Wind Band Conducting at Mozarteum University in 2018 and subsequently took responsibility for the MA programme in the field and the corresponding elective specialisation within the Instrumental Pedagogy curriculum. From 2019 to 2025, he directed the part-time university course in wind band conducting offered in cooperation with the federal state of Salzburg. From 2020 to 2025, he was Senior Artist for Conducting at the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music in Klagenfurt, where he also directed the university's symphony orchestra and founded the GMPU Academy Orchestra in 2023.
From 2009 to 2018, Fuchsberger was Kurkapellmeister in Bad Reichenhall, where he remains closely associated with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra. His conducting work has also included the Salzburg University Orchestra and Sinfonietta St Johann, alongside guest engagements in Europe and internationally. Since 2009, he has worked in collaboration with the artist Lea Anders and is a regular adjudicator at orchestral competitions.
Vita
- Collaboration with Christian Thielemann and the Mozarteum Salzburg Wind Philharmonic, as well as serving as an assistant at the Bayreuth Festival, among other engagements.
- Production of “Leben eben” at NEST/Vienna State Opera in April 26, in collaboration with artist Lea Anders, including play development and arrangements. Premiere on April 19, 2026.
- Preparation of the new conducting class and the Mozarteum University Symphony Orchestra together with Christian Thielemann and Jobst Schneiderat.
- Rehearsal and conducting of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 at the Mozarteum in October 2026.
- Guest conductor with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra (Night of Cultures)
- Conductor of the Young Wind Philharmonic of Lower Austria since 2024
- Concerts with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic
- Guest conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Concepción (UdeC) in Chile
- Collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic on a music education project in China in the fall of 2025, as well as with the Staatskapelle Berlin in Shanghai (Fall 2026)
- Artistic Director of the Salzburg Folk Song Choir, rehearsal director for the Salzburg Advent Singing
- Conducting at the Vienna Volksoper: 9 performances in April/May 2027
(Revival of *Das weiße Rössl*)
Singer & Choir Director
After gaining early experience in home and family music, he went on to conduct various amateur choirs. He was a choir member and soloist with the Salzburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir, as well as a singer with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir Vienna (both of which performed at the Salzburg Festival, among other venues). The winner of the Erwin Ortner Prize and a special prize winner at the 3rd International Competition for Young Choral Conductors in Vienna, he became artistic director of the “Bayerischer Wald” (Germany) choir and orchestra festival and a lecturer on choral conducting in Innsbruck and Erlangen. Fuchsberger took over the Salzburg Chamber Choir and served as choir director and assistant conductor at the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl.
Piano Accompanist and Conductor of Opera and Operetta
In 2004, he served as musical director for opera performances at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Subsequently, he was musical assistant and piano accompanist to Reinhard Schwarz at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg (Germany). This was followed by an engagement from 2005 to 2007 as a conductor at the Schauspielhaus Wien and the Musiktheater Schönbrunn in Vienna. Fuchsberger served as a répétiteur and conductor for the “Johann Strauss Operetta” in Vienna and worked as a conductor for oratorios, operetta, and opera festivals in Upper and Lower Austria, at Altenburg Abbey, as the founder of the Michael Haydn Consort, and as the director of various world premieres in Salzburg and Linz.
Orchestral Conductor/Concerts
First concerts with the Vienna and Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestras; first radio recordings. From 2009 to 2018, Fuchsberger served as resident conductor in Bad Reichenhall and remains closely associated with the Reichenhall Philharmonic to this day as a guest conductor, presenting numerous special programs and his own orchestral arrangements. From 2009 to 2016, Fuchsberger was conductor and artistic director of the Salzburg University Orchestra, and from 2017 to 2023, he was conductor of the Sinfonietta St. Johann. Fuchsberger has served as a guest conductor of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra in South Africa, the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra in Beirut, Lebanon, and the Bucheon Symphony Orchestra in South Korea. Since 2019, he has served as artistic director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Gustav Mahler Private University in Klagenfurt, from which he founded the GMPU Academy Orchestra in 2023. In 2025, Fuchsberger was invited to serve as a guest conductor of the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra in Germany and the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Concepción (UdeC) in Chile.
Teaching Position in Orchestral Conducting
Since 2011, Fuchsberger has been a lecturer in wind orchestra conducting at the Mozarteum University, where he earned his habilitation as a Priv.-Dozent in 2018. From 2019 to 2025, he also held a teaching position at the Gustav Mahler Private University of Music in Klagenfurt, where he led the conducting class, the academy orchestra, and the symphony orchestra of the GMPU, and established a course and the so-called “Orchestra Workshop.” He has also served as a visiting lecturer at the Geneva Conservatory of Music (Switzerland) and in collaboration with Frost Music University in Florida, USA. As a specialist in wind orchestra conducting, Fuchsberger has been invited to work with numerous wind ensembles, including the Salzburg State Wind Orchestra, the Mozarteum Salzburg Wind Philharmonic, and the Vienna Philharmonic Brass Ensemble. Fuchsberger is currently on a sabbatical from the university and is preparing for his new role and the new structure at the Mozarteum in Salzburg: Starting in the fall of 2027, he will establish a new conducting class as a university assistant to Christian Thielemann and in collaboration with Jobst Schneiderath.
Other Artistic Collaborations
Since 2009, Fuchsberger has been collaborating with the artist Lea Anders. This collaboration has resulted in numerous new compositions, arrangements, and performances, such as the projects “Emotions in Business,” “Human Love, Joy, and Sorrow,” “Five Quartets for Walpurgis Night,” “Fragments,” “Soundscapes of Nature,” and “The Star Within Me”—the founding of the male choir Neue Männerstimmen. In April 2026, “Leben eben – Sing dich in das nächste Level,” the latest work by Lea Anders and Martin Fuchsberger, will premiere at NEST, the Neue Staatsoper at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna.
Assistantships
Martin August Fuchsberger served as an assistant to Erwin Ortner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martin Haselböck, Kurt Dlouhy, Herbert Mogg, Alois Glaßner, Reinhard Schwarz, and currently Christian Thielemann.
Link to selected works
Video links
Familienmusik Fuchsberger
UA Der Stern in mir (Querschnitt)
Joh. Strauß, Fledermaus-Ouvertüre (Bucheon)
F. Lehar, Meine Lippen die küssen so heiß (Bucheon)
Trailer GMPU Winds Project (Klagenfurt)
Trailer Musical Gala: Gesang und Dirigat (Reichenhall)
Alpenl. Weihnachts-Orchester-Arrangement
Dvorak Karneval Ouvertüre (1.8.24, Reichenhall)
Ausschnitt Beethoven Klavierkonzert (1.8.24, Reichenhall)