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Angelika Möser, artistic director of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art on Tuesday, May 14th. The presentation was made by Theresia Niedermüller, head of the art and culture section at the BMKÖS, at a ceremony in the Vienna Künstlerhaus.
“Even after her work at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the groundbreaking successes at Jeunesse, Angelika Möser remained true to her line. As director of the Arnold Schönberg Center (ASC), she was not only able to open the house to new artists and audiences, but also establish music education, especially for young people. At the end of 2022, Möser took on a new, important role in Austrian musical life as artistic director of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna. In recent months she has also been able to underline the role of the RSO Vienna as a pan-Austrian orchestra and thus the federal component of the ensemble by not only staging concerts in Vienna, Styria, Salzburg, Upper Austria and Burgenland, but also participating in the ‘Salzkammergut Capital of Culture 2024’ and a multi-year partnership with the ‘Carinthian Summer’. After the Covid-19 pandemic, she was also able to get the orchestra’s touring activities going again (including in the Far East) – and thus re-establish the role of the RSO Vienna as an essential cultural ambassador for Austria. In addition to her full-time work, Angelika Möser has also served in countless voluntary positions, juries and advisory boards,” says the ministry’s statement.
Angelika Möser said on the occasion of this recognition: “I am very pleased about this award and recognition by the Republic of Austria. I accept it gratefully, but I also see it as a mandate to do everything I can to ensure the long-term security of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra.”
“Congratulations to Angelika Möser on receiving this high award for her ‘life’s work’. I am pleased that we were able to recruit such a renowned personality for the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra,” congratulated ORF radio director Ingrid Thurnher.
Angelika Möser, who studied musicology and was born in Vienna in 1965, worked in the artistic operations office of the Vienna Konzerthaus from 1992 to 2003. From 2003 to 2015 she was general secretary of Jeunesse Austria. In July 2015 she was appointed director of the Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna. Möser has also been deputy chairwoman of the University Council of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2018, and she has been its chairwoman since March 2023. Möser has been artistic director of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna since October 2022.
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