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In addition, the Mozarteum University Salzburg welcomes two guest professors in the winter semester 2024/25: Maria Evangelina Miscardi and Andreas Scholl, who has already taught at the Mozarteum in the past as part of an endowed professorship.

The bass-baritone Lisandro Abadie, born in Buenos Aires, studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and at the Lucerne University of Music. He won the Edwin Fischer Memorial Prize in 2006 and has sung under the direction of William Christie, Laurence Cummings, Francesco Corti, Rubén Dubrovsky, Andreas Reize, Václav Luks, Tōnu Kaljuste, Skip Sempé, Paul Agnew, Paul Goodwin, Vincent Dumestre, etc. He has also made around 60 CD and DVD recordings. He made his debut at the Opéra de Paris and the Teatro Real, Madrid, in 2024 in Charpentier's Médée with William Christie. Abadie is active as a researcher, translator and lecturer in historical performance practice. 

The actress Hanna Binder was born in Transylvania and grew up in Germany. After studying at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, she performed as a guest and in permanent engagements at over 20 theatres in German-speaking countries, including Schauspiel Frankfurt, Lucerne Theatre, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Burgtheater Vienna and the Wiener Festwochen. Her constant search for diverse means of expression has led her to performance, dance and music. She has realised her own projects at the Studio Molière in Vienna and was part of the Danceweb and Atlas programme at the Impulstanzfestival Vienna. She has also received nominations and awards for various theatre prizes. 

Conductor Christiane Büttig studied music and sports science in Rostock and Greifswald and conducting in Dresden. Masterclasses with Simon Halsey, among others, round off her conducting career. She gained additional impulses as a singer in the VocalConsort Berlin, the Dresden Chamber Choir and the KlangVerwaltung Choir under Blomstedt, Chailly, Nagano and numerous others. From 2012 to 2024, Christiane Büttig conducted the Dresden University Choir and its chamber choir, and from 2017 to 2021 she was director of the international choral academy ‘In terra pax’. From 2012 to 2022, she was responsible for numerous choral rehearsals at the Semperoper Dresden and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. She has been the artistic director of the KlangVerwaltung choir since 2019. She regularly works with the Salzburg Bach Choir, most recently at the Brucknerfest Linz under the direction of Markus Poschner and at the Salzburg Easter Festival with Mozart's Requiem under the direction of Christian Thielemann. In September 2024, she was responsible for the Hamburg State Orchestra for the 1st Academy Concert in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with Brahms' “Nänie”, “Schicksalslied” and “Die Parzen” as choir director for the choir of over 270 singers under the overall direction of Kent Nagano. Christiane Büttig also taught at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna between 2022 and 2024.

After completing her studies, Annette Fauvel initially worked as a textile designer and product developer for well-known companies before devoting herself to teaching: she was an artistic assistant in product design at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, and also took on teaching assignments for textile technology and materials science at various design universities and designed international training programmes. Her teaching focusses on sustainable, circular and social design: design creates results in the form of materials and textiles, but also products, tools, concepts, systems, services and communication strategies that help us on our way to a more ecologically and socially sustainable future.  

The Italian-Swiss guitarist Giuseppe Feola studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, at the Conservatorio Alfredo Casella dell'Aquila and at the Hochschule für Musik Basel. He has won prizes at international competitions such as the Fernando Sor in Rome and the Tokyo Guitar Competition. In 2010, he recorded works by Isaac Albeniz for Brilliant Classics. In addition to his professorship at the Mozarteum University, Feola is a lecturer at the Basel University of Music. Fascinated by guitar making, he collaborates with various guitar makers to further develop the instrument.  

The Bulgarian guitarist Bozhana Pavlova successfully combines solo and chamber music concert performances in renowned concert halls around the world with her many years of teaching experience. She is a laureate of several international competitions and has received high honours for artistic achievements from the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture in Austria and the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, among others. She studied concert performance at the Private University of Music and Arts Vienna and instrumental and vocal pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She then completed her doctorate at the New Bulgarian University. She is a guest professor and jury member at various international guitar festivals such as the Forum Gitarre Wien, Pleven Guitar Festival, Sommerakademie Seckau, Albania Guitar Festival, Vihuela Guitar Festival, Kosovo, Green Graz Guitar Festival. 

After studying cultural studies and computer science in Berlin, cultural and media scientist Paul Feigelfeld held various positions at the Centre for Digital Cultures Lüneburg, the University of Art and Design Basel, the Strelka Institute Moscow, the University of Applied Arts and the University of Vienna. From 2021 to 2024, he held the professorship for Knowledge Cultures in the Digital Age at the Institute for Design Research at HBK Braunschweig and is a visiting professor at the Chair of Media Theories at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His work explores transcultural approaches to media and knowledge history, critical perspectives on technologies and their interfaces with art and design. He advises and works for art institutions such as the HKW Berlin, Vitra Design Museum and the MAK Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, where he was guest curator of the Vienna Biennale 2019 with ‘Uncanny Values. Artificial Intelligence & You’. 

Laure M. Hiendl works as a composer* and performer* in the intermediate areas of concert music, performance, music theatre and installation. Instruments and voices are often set in relation to electronics and digital processes in xie's works, investigating the space-time-body relationship in music as an always already theatrical, performative event. Laure's works have been shown at international festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, steirischer herbst / Musikprotokoll, Bergen Assembly / Parliament of Bodies, Ultraschall Berlin, 3hd Festival Berlin, Darmstädter Ferienkurse and Warschauer Herbst. Laure M. Hiendl completed her doctorate on ‘Queer Composing’ at Columbia University New York and has been Assistant Professor* of Composition at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2021; Laure has headed the Department of Composition and Music Theory since 2024.

Chinese pianist Lei Meng studied at the China Conservatory in Beijing, at the Austrian-Chinese Music University in Beijing, at the Mozarteum University with Klaus Kaufmann and at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris with Michel Béroff. She has been a senior lecturer for piano at the Mozarteum University since 2018. She completed her Master's degree at the Mozarteum University in 2016 and habilitated in 2022. In addition to her passion for teaching, she is constantly expanding her repertoire for both solo piano and chamber music and regularly performs concerts. Lei Meng has won numerous international competitions and is regularly invited to festivals. Her performances have taken her to many countries in Europe, the USA, China and Brazil. 

English-born Allison Oakes studied in Weimar and is now one of the most sought-after dramatic sopranos on international stages, including the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Bayreuth Festival, the Hamburg State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Leipzig Opera, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Teatro Massimo Palermo, the English National Opera, London, La Fenice Venice, the Teatro dell' Opera di Roma, the Frankfurt Opera and the Cologne Opera. Before Allison Oakes began her vocal studies, she completed a degree in medicine. As a ‘Diagnostic Radiographer’, she has extensive anatomical knowledge, which provides a useful basis for her singing lessons and masterclasses for opera studios.  

German Tcakulov's love of art and the viola took him from Vladikavkaz to St. Petersburg, then on to Berlin, Munich, Karlsruhe and Salzburg. He was a scholarship holder of the Lucia Loeser Foundation and won numerous prizes at international competitions, including Charles Hennen in Holland, Jyväskylä in Finland, Mravinsky in Russia and the ‘start-up! music’ prize of the Hanns Eisler University of Music. From 2018 to 2022 he was a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BR). As an orchestral musician, he has worked with conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, Ivan Fischer, Daniel Harding, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti and Valery Gergiev. Invitations to festivals have taken him to the AIMS Festival in Spain, Murten Classics, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Otzberg Summer Concerts, among others. From 2017 to 2022, he worked as a lecturer at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and was assistant to Tabea Zimmermann. From 2021 to 2023, he taught his own viola class at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. In summer 2022, he was appointed Professor of Viola at the University of Music in Karlsruhe. He also shares his knowledge and expertise at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole/Florence and gives masterclasses worldwide. He plays two modern French violas by Patrick Robin and Roland Belleguic.