Head of Operations and Arts Management.

Karin Hofer is a classically trained pianist, piano pedagogue and opera chorus singer with German as her mother tongue and Italian as a second language. At the Wiener Festspiele she holds the leading position in Head of Operations and Arts Management. She has performed at the Salzburger Festspiele, Easter and Whitsun Festival in the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden (D), Oper im Steinbruch St. Margarethen, Bregenzer Festspiele, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Grand Theater de Luxembourg, Theater an der Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein Wien, Berliner Philharmonie, deSingel Antwerpen, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Styriarte and in the Gustav Mahler Choir of the Vienna State Opera. She acquired her third bilingual Master’s degree in Performing Arts Management at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala di Milano in June 2020 and in autumn 2021 she completed the academical specialization for Music Theater Mediation at the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin with honors.