Markus Hinterhäuser

Markus Hinterhäuser ( born March 30, 1958 in La Spezia, Italy) is an Austrian pianist and cultural managers and designated director of the Vienna Festival ( 2014 ) and the Salzburg Festival (since 2017).

Hinterhäuser completed his piano studies at the Vienna Conservatory and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. There he was, among other students of her somewhat and Maisenberg. As a chamber musician, he soon worked together with the Arditti Quartet. He was also a long time companion of the singer Brigitte Fassbaender. Later he engaged especially for the music of the 20th century. He played among other things, the entire solo piano works of the Second Viennese School, as well as John Cage, Morton Feldman and Galina Ustwolskaja.

He is also a regular guest at many festivals, such as the Salzburg Festival, the Schubertiade Hohenems, the Munich Piano Summer and the Wien Modern Festival.

Hinterhäuser is the founder ( with Tomas Zierhofer - Kin) and long -term director (1993-2001 ) of the flow of time festivals ( Salzburg Festival ) and time zone ( Vienna Festival (since 2002 ) In February 2005, he was -. Instead of the originally planned Peter Schmidl - designated by the future director Jürgen Flimm as a concert director of the Salzburg Festival and in office from 2007 and 2011.

In the 2011 season Hinterhäuser was - due to the premature departure of Jürgen Flimm - Transitional Director of the Salzburg Festival. From 2014 he will chair together with Frie Leysen, the Vienna Festival.