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Johannes Wilhelm

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The Austrian pianist Johannes Wilhelm performs as a lied accompanist, chamber musician and soloist throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the USA. He has worked with world-class conductors and singers at the Salzburg Festival, and since 2011 he has been a member of the teaching faculty at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where he now leads the pre-college programme in the Department of Keyboard Instruments.

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.

  • 2010 Appreciation Award of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research
  • 2010 CD Franz Xaver Frenzel - works for string orchestra, piano, flute, horn, trumpet and trombone
  • 2011 Working scholarship of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research
  • 2012 CD Symphonic Organ Music at the Propter Homines Organ in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg
  • 2016 Artistic Habilitation at the University Mozartum Salzburg
  • 2018 CD "Wiener Melange" with Christina Gansch (soprano) and Peter Dorfmayr (Viennese horn)
  • Piano concert subject Master with distinction
  • Organ Concert Master with distinction
  • Piano Pedagogy Master with distinction