Univ.-Prof. MMag.
Anna Barbara Töller
BA
Anna Töller is a freelance choral conductor, vocal and instrumental pedagogue, and lecturer for seminars and workshops. Since 2019, she has been Professor of Music in Elemental Music and Dance Education at the Orff Institute of the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Anna Töller studied choral conducting with Karl Kamper and vocal pedagogy with Maria Anna Schartner at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, alongside studies in music and dance pedagogy at the Orff Institute. She completed all degree programmes with distinction. From 2009 to 2011, while still a student, she conducted the ensemble now known as the Salzburg Mozart Choir. She received both an Austrian state scholarship and a scholarship from the Carl Orff Foundation, and in 2011 was awarded the Bernhard Paumgartner Medal by the International Mozarteum Foundation.
After graduating in 2011, Töller was appointed chorus director at Theater Vorpommern before moving in 2014 to the same position at Theater Heidelberg. During this period, she collaborated with prominent conductors and directors including Peter Konwitschny, Nanine Linning, Lydia Steier and Mario Venzago. Alongside the core operatic repertoire, she prepared choruses for several world and German premieres, including works by Johannes Harneit and Christian Jost. In 2014, the magazine Opernwelt nominated her production of Lohengrin at Theater Vorpommern in the category “Best Choir of the Year.”