New Director in July 2015

Mag. Angelika Möser will become the new director of the Arnold Schönberg Center on July 1, 2015.

City Counsellor Dr. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny welcomed her appointment in May 2014, saying, “In Angelika Möser, the Arnold Schönberg Center has gained a proven expert who will continue its successful work on a high level and who will open it up with her focus on outreach to new sectors of the public.”

In Möser’s own words: “After many years in Vienna’s concert activities, I am excited about deeper involvement extending beyond music with Arnold Schönberg’s universal artistic persona and the century he experienced and influenced, combined with the challenge of placing his art and that of the Viennese School in the context of the present. Building on the Schönberg Center’s many successful endeavors in Vienna, Austria and abroad, I am looking forward to a focal point for lively cultural encounters which, while preserving the memorial aspect, simultaneously maintains its orientation to the present and the future. I am approaching this task deeply aware of the responsibility the City of Vienna has assumed for Arnold Schönberg and I am very pleased to be able to make a further important contribution to Viennese cultural life.”

Angelika Möser was born in Vienna; after graduating from secondary school she completed her studies at the Business College at the Commercial Academy, before moving on to musicology at Vienna University, combined with economics and history. She worked freelance for Jeunesses Musicales from 1986 to 1992, while at the same time employed at the Salzburg Festivals in their Artistic Administration and the Salzburg Easter Festival. She was appointed to the board of Austria’s Musikalische Jugend in 1988, where she also held the post of the society’s chairperson for some years. Moreover, she was vice president of Jeunesses Musicales from 2007 to 2010; before that, she had worked from 1992 to 2003 in the artistic manager’s office at the Vienna Konzerthaus and she was appointed General Secretary of Jeunesses Musicales in 2003. Since then, for the past 11 years now, she has been artistically and commercially responsible for a program of 600 concerts throughout Austria of the most various kinds, as well as two orchestra camps and many other activities.