Katharina Müllner

Katharina Müllner studied conducting, music education and psychology/philosophy in her hometown of Vienna.
After three years at the Landestheater Linz, she has been working as a freelance conductor since the 2020/21 season.

At the age of five she began her musical education on the piano, violin and other instruments followed. During her school days she experienced what music can do for a community. Supported by her music teacher Heinz Knaus, she took her first steps in conducting choirs and ensembles. After graduating from high school, she decided to study music education (majoring in choral conducting with Alois Glaßner and Johannes Hiemetsberger) and psychology/philosophy. She directed choirs, and was also able to experience large choral/orchestral works with renowned conductors, soloists and orchestras as a singer in the Wiener Singverein (directed by Johannes Prinz). In addition, she studied conducting with Andreas Stoehr at the Music and Arts Private University in Vienna, as well as directing student and amateur orchestras, with which she conducted concerts in the Berio Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus and in the Kuppelsaal of the Vienna University of Technology.

While still a student, Katharina Müllner made her debut at the TAG Theater in Vienna in 2016 with Gasparone (Millöcker), and also conducted a work by B.R. German in the Glass Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. She completed her conducting studies with a concert at the Radiokulturhaus in Vienna with the Bratislava Symphoniker and works by Beethoven and Johann Strauss. At the Langenlois Castle Festival in 2017, she conducted several performances of Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.

Katharina Müllner made her debut at the Chemnitz Theater in October 2019 with Mozart's Magic Flute. In January 2019 she conducted a performance of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at the Theater Aachen.

In the 2019/20 season she took over the direction of Mozart's Entführung aus dem Seraglio, and Il matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa). She also conducted performances of Millöcker's beggar student.

Previously, Katharina Müllner was engaged to the Landestheater Linz in the 2017/18 season immediately after completing her studies. Here she made her debut with the operetta Eine Nacht in Venice by Johann Strauss. She also conducted Carl Zeller's Vogelhändler at the Linz Music Theater, as well as family and school concerts with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz.

Since the 2020/21 season she has become one of the up and coming young conductors, making her debut at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar with Elisabeth Naske's Der Wunschpunsch and the following year (inbetween lockdowns) at the Theater St. Gallen with a new production of Mozart's Magic Flute. Even before her planned debut at the Vienna Volksoper with Suppès Der Teufel auf Erden, she stepped in at short notice for a performance of Britten's death in Venice. She also stood in for the premiere of Carmen at the German National Theater in Weimar.

Katharina Müllner has also conducted at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf (Magic Flute), the Vienna Chamber Opera, the German National Theater in Weimar (Norma 2.0) and the Robert Schumann Philharmonic in Chemnitz. She also took on a concert at the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra.

The 2022/23 season takes her to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf (Ballet Krabat), the Theater St. Gallen (Magic Flute), the Theater Essen (Carmen), as well as to the Philharmonic Orchestra Landestheater Coburg, the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra and the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra.