Fernando Araujo is a Senior Lecturer and Collaborative Pianist at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. An internationally sought-after collaborative pianist and vocal coach, he has worked with artists including Barbara Bonney, Diana Damrau, Grace Bumbry, and Elīna Garanča. As a baritone, he has performed leading roles such as Escamillo, Papageno, Rigoletto, and Marcello at opera houses and festivals across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. His work unites teaching, coaching, and performance at the highest international level.
Fernando Araujo was born in São Paulo, and studied piano, voice, and chamber music at Indiana University Bloomington and the Mozarteum, where his teachers included Menahem Pressler, György Sebők, James King, and Wolfgang Holzmair.
As a collaborative pianist and vocal coach, Araujo has worked with artists such as Barbara Bonney, Diana Damrau, Grace Bumbry, Elīna Garanča, and Ruggero Raimondi. He has served as vocal coach and répétiteur for the Salzburg Festival Young Singers Project, the Verbier Festival, EPCASO in Italy, and numerous international competitions and training programs. In 2010, he was appointed by the Austrian Ministry of Culture as chief répétiteur for Mongolia’s premiere of Don Giovanni at the State Opera in Ulaanbaatar.
Alongside his teaching and coaching career, Araujo maintains an active international career as a baritone. His operatic roles include Escamillo in Carmen, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Rigoletto, Marcello in La Bohème, Germont in La Traviata, and the title role in The Barber of Seville. He has appeared with conductors including Fabio Luisi and Dennis Russell Davies, and as a soloist with the Salzburg Philharmonic and other orchestras in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Araujo is Artistic Director of the Mozart Dinner Concert and co-founder of the Amadeus International Culture Committee. He has also curated cultural projects with social impact, including the 2022 Brazil bicentennial soirée “Leopoldina, aus Liebe zu Brasilien” in cooperation with the Brazilian Embassy in Vienna, and the 2025 production of “Itzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination” with the Salzburg Global Seminar.