Born in
Austria as the youngest child of a family of musicians Dorothy Khadem-Missagh grew up in
Baden bei Wien. As a pianist and conductor she continues the musical work of her family in the fourth generation. Her father
Bijan Khadem-Missagh is a violinist and conductor. He is the founder and long-time
artistic director of the international
chamber music festival and was
concertmaster of the
Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich. Her sister Martha and brother Vahid are violinists. She received her first piano lessons at the age of three. At age six she was admitted to the
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She studied there with Noel Flores, Stefan Arnold and Jan Jiracek von Arnim, among others as well as with
Pavel Gililov at
Mozarteum University Salzburg. At the
Verbier Festival and similar settings she received musical impulses from
Martha Argerich,
András Schiff,
Ferenc Rados, Arie Vardi, Robert Levin, Gábor Takács-Nagy and
Menahem Pressler. In 2011, Dorothy Khadem-Missagh made her debut in the Golden Hall of the
Vienna Musikverein as soloist in
Joseph Haydn's Piano Concerto in D Major. Furthermore, she has performed in halls such as
Konzerthaus Vienna,
Philharmonie Luxembourg,
Seoul Arts Center, and at Festivals like the
Verbier Festival, Styriarte Graz, Palermo Classica, Mosel Musikfestival, Liszt Festival Raiding, and Tiroler Festspiele Erl. She appeared as soloist with the
Tonkünstler Orchestra,
Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Soul Seongnam Philharmonic Orchestra among others and played chamber music concerts with Patrick Demenga, Christian Altenburger,
Julia Hagen, Jiyoon Lee, Matthias Bartolomey as well as members of the
Vienna Philharmonic. Dorothy Khadem-Missagh made her debut as a conductor with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and further conducted the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Beethoven Frühling Festival Orchestra, which she founded. She studied orchestral conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London. and Christoph Ehrenfellner. On the occasion of the Beethoven Year 2020, she founded the Beethoven Frühling Festival, which takes place annually under her artistic direction at Beethoven-related sites such as Baden bei Wien, Wiener Neustadt, and Gneixendorf. == Awards ==