Austria’s youngest university for music

With the foundation of the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music by the Province of Carinthia – the official title in full – artistically talented youngsters in Carinthia are given completely new possibilities for developing their potential. Tomorrow’s musicians require not just talent, but also a rock-solid education in the musical arts to help them unleash their full creative potential. This new alma mater is intended to help them do just that.

The Gustav Mahler Private University of Music offers four degree courses: a bachelor and master’s degree respectively in instrumental and vocal education and in musical performance studies. The bachelor degrees are eight semesters long, the master's degrees have a minimum length of four semesters.

In total, 46 women and 44 men have qualified for the opening act of the Gustav Mahler Private University of Music. 50 students have enrolled in instrumental and vocal educations; 40 in musical performance studies. Once the university is running at full capacity, it will accommodate a total of 260 students in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. The first bachelor degrees should be awarded in 2021, the first master’s degrees two years later. The student population is highly international and hails from Austria, Venezuela, China, Mexico, Chile, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, Russia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Taiwan and Korea.