Anna Koch

Photo of Anna Koch by Sebastian Schmid

Anna Koch is an Austrian clarinet and bass clarinet player. As a professional musician, she specializes in contemporary and improvised music. As a member of numerous New Music ensembles, Anna Koch knows how to blend in, however she is just as confident … read more »

Anna-Maria Hefele

Anna-Maria Hefele by Thomas Radlwimmer

Anna-Maria Hefele aka AMA is a musical phenomenon. She moves between diverse vocal techniques – from classical to polyphonic overtone singing – and accompanies herself perfectly with unusual instruments such as harp and the swedish nyckelharpa trance-like as a matter of course. … read more »

BartolomeyBittmann

Bartolomey Bittmann by Stephan Doleschal

BartolomeyBittmann – progressive strings Matthias Bartolomey – Cello Klemens Bittmann – Violin & Mandola The respect for the sound of their instruments, as well as a shared passion for creating new sounds, brings two musicians together. The cellist Matthias Bartolomey and the … read more »

Baubo Collective

Baubo Collective by Andreas Hoyer

Baubo Collective is a contemporary music duo, consisting of recorder player Lorina Vallaster and cellist Anna Maria Niemiec. Already in their unusual instrumentation the ensemble goes beyond the framework of a “traditional duo”. Enriched by extended playing techniques, prepared instruments, singing, gestures, … read more »

Beat Furrer

Beat Furrer (c) David Furrer

BEAT FURRER was born in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) in 1954 and received his first musical training on piano at the Music School there. After moving to Vienna in 1975, he studied conducting with Otmar Suitner and composition with Roman Haubenstock Ramati at the Hochschule … read more »

beauchamp*geissler

Photo of beachamp-geissler (c) Andrea Fantino

beauchamp*geissler’s music doesn’t abide by the rules of musical genres: they juggle multilingual texts, shift between composed and improvised music, intersperse songs and soundscapes. Their distinctive sound makes them unique. Based in Vienna, the duo consists of Marta Beauchamp (vocals, cello, electric … read more »

Bernd Richard Deutsch

Bernd Richard Deutsch by Wolf-Dieter Grabner

Bernd Richard Deutsch (born 1977) today numbers among the most internationally successful composers of his generation. His highly virtuosic, playful music is distinguished by “a seemingly almost inexhaustible abundance of vivid musical characters, situations, and gestures” (Die Presse). Among his most important … read more »

Bernhard Lang

Bernhard Lang by Harald Hoffmann

The compositions of BERNHARD LANG, born in 1957 in Upper Austria, go beyond the acoustic sound experience, since the meaning of his creative work is just as important as the musical result. In addition to music-related studies such as piano and composition, … read more »

between feathers

photo of between feathers (c) Valerie Maltseva

In 2019, four outstanding, Austria-based musicians (Maria Mogas Gensana, accordion; Audrey G. Perreault, flutes; Hannes Schöggl, percussion; Elīna Viļuma-Helling, voice) decided to form an ensemble for new music and dedicated themselves to curiosity, exploration, collaboration and creativity. between feathers explores international new … read more »

Billy Roisz

Photo of Billy Roisz (c) Jakob Schauer

Lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Since the late 1990s, Billy Roisz has been dealing intensively with video and sound. Her work focuses on  the links and gaps between visual and auditive perception. Roisz questions the interaction between sound and image, the … read more »