Mozarteumorchester Salzburg

The Mozarteum Orchestra enjoys extraordinary successes worldwide, particularly due to its interpretations of the great Viennese classics. In 2016 it became the first orchestra after the Vienna Philharmonic to receive the Golden Mozart Medal. Since the beginning of the 2024/25 season Roberto González-Monjas has been the new chief conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra.

Over the course of more than 180 years of history, which has its roots in the ‘Dommusikverein und Mozarteum’, founded in 1841 with the support of Mozart’s widow Constanze and the composer’s two sons, the orchestra has matured into one of the leading Austrian orchestras and into one of Austria’s musical figureheads, offering an unmistakable sound culture. Leopold Hager, Hans Graf, Hubert Soudant, Ivor Bolton and most recently Riccardo Minasi have been its influential chief conductors in recent decades. Prominent artists and guest conductors such as Constantinos Carydis, Reinhard Goebel, Andrew Manze, Jörg Widmann and conductor laureate Ivor Bolton enjoy working with the versatile Orchestra’s ensemble of around ninety musicians.

In addition to its two separate concert cycles, the Mozarteum Orchestra, representing both the City and the Region of Salzburg, performs regularly at the Mozartwoche Festival and for the Salzburg Cultural Association, as well as throughout the year at the Salzburg Landestheater. The Orchestra also receives numerous invitations to make guest appearances elsewhere in Europe, in Asia and in North and South America. The Mozarteum Orchestra has played an important role at the Salzburg Festival for more than ninety years, above all through its Mozart matinees.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included a performance of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte as part of the Mozartwoche, the premiere of Vivan and Ketan Bhatti’s music theatre piece Berlin Alexanderplatz at the Landestheater, the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Vibraphone Concerto with Christoph Sietzen at the Mozarteum Foundation and guest performances in Spain and South Korea. Guest artists have included Leopold Hager, Constantinos Carydis, Trevor Pinnock, Marek Janowski, Julia Hagen, Jan Lisiecki and Sabin Tambrea.

The Orchestra’s diverse work is documented in an impressive discography, which has won awards including an ECHO Klassik. Most recently, in January 2026, it released a complete recording of all Mozart’s violin concertos with Berlin Classics, in which Roberto González-Monjas appears as both soloist and conductor.

The Orchestra is happy that its long-standing partnership with its principal sponsor Leica has continued in the 2025/26 season.