Arts Manager Thomas Wolfram has Died, Aged 75

Wolfram was director of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and founder of the Primusic agency 

Born in Bremen in 1949 and raised in Brazil and Mexico, Thomas Wolfram first trained as a shipping clerk. He later completed a cultural management course and studied psychology and Roman languages at the University of Vienna. 

Before entering arts management, he was a teacher and tour director for the Vienna Boys’ Choir, and was the manager of various ensembles and worked as a record producer for several labels.  

Additionally, Wolfram worked for five years as an artist agent and head of the concert department at Vienna’s Austroconcert International Music Management agency, where the Mozarteum Orchestra was a client. 

His business relationship with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg lasted over 30 years, initially as an organizer of concert tours. On one such tour, the orchestra’s director Sigune Neureiter asked if he would like to be her successor as she was going into politics. 

Wolfram had been with Austroconcert for eight years from 1979 to 1987 before he joined the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg as director. He settled in Vienna with his family in the 1980s and split his time between Vienna and London.

In 1988, he founded PRIMUSIC - MUSIDAT Ltd, an international classical music agency in Vienna specializing in European, Latin American, and Asian classical music. There, he served as managing director and as a classical music agent. 

Eventually, Wolfram would hold a two-time directorship at the Mozarteum Orchestra, once from 1987 to 1992 and then again from 2014 to 2020. In 2020, he was succeeded by Siegwald Bütow as director. 

Our condolences to Mr. Wolfram’s family, friends, students, and colleagues.