Ulrike Anton

Ulrike Anton has been the director of the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna since the spring of 2023 and, in this role, has initiated activities for the Schönberg150 anniversary year in Austria and internationally. As a flutist and musicologist, she received her musical and academic training in Austria, France, and England. She is considered one of the leading interpreters in the field of music composed in exile, as her international concert career and her highly acclaimed CD recordings impressively demonstrate. She performs regularly in Europe, the U.S., Canada, and Asia: performances include the Musikverein in Vienna, the Bregenz Festival, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Philharmonie Brno, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and the Ishibashi Memorial Hall in Tokyo. Renowned composers such as Gabriele Proy, Viktor Fortin, Karl Haidmayer, Can Aksel Akin, and Michael Graubart have dedicated compositions to the flutist. As a musicologist and expert on 20th-century music, she is regularly invited to international conferences and has given lectures at the International Musicological Society (IMS) World Congresses in Tokyo (IMS 2015) and Athens (IMS 2022), among other venues. For many years, she served as a lecturer at the Institute for the International Education of Students in Vienna (IES Abroad Vienna) and at Wake Forest University (Vienna Campus), and until 2023 she served as deputy director of the Exilarte Center at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.