About Me
Michael Wahlmüller was born in 1980 in Linz/Upper Austria and lives and works in Vienna and Linz.
He studied in his hometown Linz (Anton Bruckner Private University Linz) as well as at the University of Music and Performing Arts and at the University of Vienna.
For many years, Michael Wahlmüller has been teaching at a secondary school in Vienna. He was also a long-standing board member of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music (ÖGZM).
In addition to his pedagogical and organizational responsibilities, Michael Wahlmüller is the founder and director of the Ensemble Lentia Nova (2004–2024) and also conducts concerts with various ensembles and orchestras from Vienna, Upper Austria, and Lower Austria, to which he is invited as a guest conductor. For many years he was also active as a choir director.
Michael Wahlmüller’s works have already been performed by renowned ensembles, including the Belmonte Quartett Salzburg, the Koehne Quartett, the Max Brand Ensemble, the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the vocal ensemble Lala, the ensemble "die reihe", the Wiener Concert-Verein, the Tyrolean Chamber Orchestra "Instrumenti", Ensemble Wiener Collage and Ensemble Zeitfluss Graz.
Michael Wahlmüller’s works are published by renowned publishers such as Universal Edition and Musikverlag Doblinger.
For his compositional work, Michael Wahlmüller has received national and international awards.
Prizes and Awards:
+ Art promotion scholarship from the City of Linz for composition (2011)
+ Talent Promotion Award of the Province of Upper Austria for Composition (2012)
+ Prize winner at the Simon Publishing House International Composition Competition (Berlin 2012)
+ Theodor Körner Prize for Composition (2013)
+ Ink Still Wet Call for scores for the Grafenegg International Festival
(2013)
+ Second prize at the International Gustav Mahler Composition Competition of the City of Klagenfurt (2013)
+ Honorary Diploma of the "Third Edison Denisov Composition Competition" (Tomsk-Russland) (2013)
+ Gewinner des internationalen Kompositionswettbewerbes "kompolize" für Orchester (Berlin) (2013)
+ Award at the 13th International Carl von Ossietzky Composition Competition (Oldenburg) (2013)
+ Richard Wagner Scholarship Bayreuth (2014)
+ 4th prize in the Upper Austrian composition competition for symphonic wind orchestra (2014)
+ Scholarship holder at Villa Stonborough-Wittgenstein, Gmunden (2015)
+ Third prize at the International Composition Competition for Chamber Music at the Weimar Spring Days for Contemporary Music (2015)
+Third prize at the Paul Lowin Prize (Sydney-Vienna) in the category "Orchestral Works" (2016)
+ First prize in the Vienna Concert Association's composition competition (2016)
+ Anton Bruckner Stipendium des Landes OÖ (2016)
+ 2. Preis beim Internationalen Kompositionswettbewerb der Reinl-Stiftung (2018)
+ Stipendium für einen Atelieraufenthalt im Egon Schiele Zentrum Krumau (2019)
+ Anton Bruckner Scholarship of the Province of Upper Austria (2020)
+ First prize in the string quartet composition competition for the Beethoven Year 2020 organized by the Upper Austrian Composers' Association (2021)
+ 2nd prize in the Balduin Sulzer Composition Prize of the Province of Upper Austria (2022)
+ World Classical Music Award (Platinum Prize - Kategorie Komposition) (GB) (2023)
+ Call for Scores by the ISCM in cooperation with the Ensemble Wiener Collagee (2023)
+ Recognition award at the Balduin Sulzer Composition Prize (2024)
+ International Composition Prize "Kompolize" (Berlin, 2024)
+ Upper Austrian State Culture Prize for Music (2024)
+ Call for Scores of ACOM (2025)
+ Recognition Prize of the International Composition Competition of the Georg and Alice Eisler Foundation (2026)
+ Call for Scores of ACOM (2026)
+ Chaminade Medal of the Marianist Order (2012)
+ Honorary member of the Vienna Vocal Ensemble (2013)
+ Jakob Gapp Medal of the Marianist Order (2017)