Niccolò Morello, born in Soave, studied piano in Vicenza as well as orchestral conducting and choral conducting in Trieste. In 2021/22, he was an Erasmus scholar at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He attended masterclasses with conductors such as Jorma Panula, Marin Alsop, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Mark Stringer, Nicolás Pasquet, Vladimir Kiradjiev, and Giancarlo Andretta. As a member of the Wiener Singverein, Morello took part in numerous concerts with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre national de France, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Symphony Orchestra, and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Semën Byčkov, Lorenzo Viotti, Lahav Shani, Marie Jacquot, Thomas Guggeis, and Herbert Blomstedt.

As a concert pianist, Niccolò Morello has been active in Italy, performing among others at the Teatro Ristori in Verona. As a conductor, he made his debut in 2019 with the Venetian Youth String Orchestra, which he founded. During his studies, he conducted numerous academic concerts and participated in international competitions across Europe. He has conducted the Pro Arte Orchestra of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Danubia Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, the orchestra of the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Antonio Vivaldi Orchestra, as well as various chamber ensembles such as the Ensemble Contemporanea Tartini in Trieste. In 2023, he conducted Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Teatro Verdi in Muggia, as well as the world premiere of Orfeo nell’Underground by contemporary composer Fabio Cuccu at the Teatro Miela in Trieste.

He is the musical director and founder of the vocal ensemble "VoxAlacer". In March 2025, he was appointed Kapellmeister (Choir Master) of the Schubert Choir of the Vienna Boys Choir. His first tour with the choir will take the young musician to Switzerland and Italy.

The Vienna Boys Choir is one of the most famous choirs in the world, and one of its oldest: Boys have been singing at Vienna's Imperial Chapel at least since 1296. Two hundred years later, on 7 July 1498, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. established a Court Chapel in Vienna. He gave specific instructions that there were to be boys among the singers, thus laying the foundation for the Vienna Boys Choir. Like their modern successors, the Early modern boys spent much time on the road, following their imperial employer to sing at the Holy Roman Empire’s parliamentary meetings, imperial coronations, weddings, state processions, and feasts.

Over the centuries, the Viennese court attracted musical geniuses like Heinrich Isaac, Johann Joseph Fux, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Composers Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn, and Franz Schubert sang as boys with the choir; Anton Bruckner gave them singing and piano lessons.

Today, the former imperial ensemble has grown into an entire campus; the modern Vienna Boys Choir is a private, non-profit charity which funds itself chiefly through income generated from concerts and touring, as well as donations and sponsorship deals. The Vienna Boys Choir maintains a primary school and a grammar school whose syllabuses focus on choral music and singing. 330 boys and girls between the ages of six and nineteen attend the schools on campus. All students have individual voice lessons, and all sing in one of the choirs. In addition to the four famous boys’ choirs, there is their female counterpart, i.e. the Vienna Girls Choir (Wiener Chormädchen) for girls aged 10 to 14, the Chorus Primus, a mixed children’s chorus comprised of all boys and girls enrolled in the 4^th grade of the choir’s primary school, and finally Chorus Juventus, the mixed youth choir of the Senior High School. The Vienna Boys Choir’s education, listed by UNESCO as cultural heritage, is open to all, regardless of origin, gender, nationality, or religion.

There are currently 90 active boy choristers, divided into four boys’ choirs, which all perform as “Vienna Boys Choir”: Brucknerchor (Choirmaster Manolo Cagnin), Haydnchor (Choirmaster Jimmy Chiang), Mozartchor (Choirmaster Manuel Huber), and Schubertchor (Choirmaster Niccolò Morello). The four choirs share concerts, tours, sound recordings and filming equally. Between them, they perform almost 300 concerts per year, with almost half a million people attending. Since 1924, the choirs have completed more than 1000 tours in 100 different countries, clocking up a staggering 29,000 concerts.

On Sundays, the choirs take turns singing mass in Vienna’s Imperial Chapel, joining forces with members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the men’s chorus of the Vienna State Opera. They frequently participate in large-scale symphonic concerts, performing under conductors like Joana Mallwitz, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Franz Welser-Möst. Among the highlights in the choirs’ calendar are appearances at the Salzburg Festival and at the New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic.

The Vienna Boys Choir cooperates with several other charities, such as UNICEF, “Licht ins Dunkel” (Light into Darkness, an Austrian charity), or die moewe Child protection agency. Together with Caritas and the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Choir founded “superar", an outreach programme offering children access to free music education. In addition, the Vienna Boys Choir runs Chorus amabilis, a choir for adult singing enthusiasts, aimed particularly at pensioners.

In 2023, the Choir celebrated its 525^th anniversary; to mark the occasion, Deutsche Grammophon released a live album of the anniversary concert in Vienna’s Musikverein, Decca Classics released a box set of 21 CDs featuring the Choir’s landmark recordings, and academic publishing house Böhlau released a book on the Choir’s rich history. In 2024, the Vienna Boys Choir and the Vienna Girls Choir jointly received the European Culture Award.

Erasmus Baumgartner has been serving as Artistic Director of the Vienna Boys Choir and the entire Campus Augarten since the fall of 2023. The Choir’s President is Erich Arthold.