Artist Genre Category: Contemporary Music

Performing the music of today unbound by differences in genre with passion, fire and unlimited excitement: removed from the ivory tower and embedded in the multifaceted world of contemporary music. With great enthusiasm, the eleven soloists of PHACE and their artistic director … read more »

Philipp Kienberger is one of those artistis who always tries to think outside the box. As a bass player (double bass and electric bass), as a composer as well as an organizer of different projects he is always searching for new sound … read more »

Pia Palme is a composer, musician, festival founder and interdisciplinary project designer. She once casted a 100 person choir for the premiere of an experimental composition. Since 2007 she has been doing internationally pioneering work with a completely newly developed sub-bass. In … read more »

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is an egg-laying mammal. Much about this resilient species is strange, inexplicable, impossible to classify, and it is precisely these enigmatic categories that interest the Platypus ensemble. Engaging with the spaces in between is what makes Platypus work and … read more »

PNEUMA are Jakob Gnigler, Robert Pockfuß, Christine Gnigler and Bernhard Höchtel. Each member is involved in different musical projects. In Pneuma the four musicians are focussing on contemporary composition and improvised music. Coming from baroque music, free jazz, noise, a capella and … read more »

The quartet Polwechsel, founded by Werner Dafeldecker and Michael Moser – and after some changes in the line-up now since 2004 include Burkhard Beins and Martin Brandlmayr – is said to be one of the most stringent and radical ensembles at the … read more »

Vienna based radio.string.quartet is a stylistic multi-cell, a micro-organism in which the individual cells communicate with each other without interfering, thus resulting in their own, unique living being. A newly discovered cosmos, combining the future with old roots. Flattering, demanding, searching, wild, … read more »

Ralph Mothwurf is one of the most sought-after composers of Austria’s young generation. In recent years, he has been a major driving force in the Austrian music scene and has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships: Talent Promotion Award of the Province … read more »

Reinhard Fuchs (*1974) first studied accordion at the Brucknerkonservatorium Linz (1991-1995) and then trained as a composer with Michael Jarell (1996-2002). In 1997/98 he spent a year at the University of Miami, Florida. Further valuable impulses for his compositions derived from his … read more »

Reinhold Schinwald studied electrical and audio engineering at Graz University of Technology and composition with Beat Furrer and Pierluigi Billone (graduated with distinction) as well as music theory with Christian Utz, Clemens Gadenstätter and Georg Friedrich Haas at the University of Music … read more »