Johannes Wilhelm

Johannes Wilhelm studied piano, pedagogy, chamber music and organ at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. During his training, he was awarded numerous scholarships and prizes, including the Distinction Award from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research.

As a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist, he has given concerts in many countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and the USA, performing in venues such as the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, the Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, the Teatros del Canal Madrid, the Berliner Philharmonie and the Vienna Konzerthaus.

He also enjoys artistic collaboration closer to home. Within the framework of the Salzburg Festival, he has worked as a pianist, organist and accompanist with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Monteverdi Choir, the Collegium Vocale Gent and the Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus. As a repetiteur for opera productions and solo rehearsals at the Festival, he has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Franz Welser-Möst, Manfred Honeck, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Teodor Currentzis, Philippe Herreweghe, Gianluca Capuano, Enrique Mazzola, Andrew Manze, Matthew Halls and Riccardo Minasi, as well as with leading singers.

In 2018, together with soprano Christina Gansch and horn player Peter Dorfmayr, Johannes Wilhelm released the CD Wiener Melange, dedicated to chamber music for Viennese horn and piano.

Alongside his busy concert career, Johannes Wilhelm has taught piano at the Mozarteum University since 2011. He completed his habilitation as a Privatdozent in 2016, and in autumn 2022 he was appointed to lead the course for the Department of Keyboard Instruments within the Mozarteum University’s pre-college programme, which supports the development of gifted young artists.