Artist Genre Category: Jazz/Improvised Music

World music that draws its influences from all regions of the world – this encompasses the musical spirit that the duo Paier/Valcic have been pursuing for many years. On their records, the Austrian accordionist Klaus Paier and Croatian cellist Asja Valcic present … read more »

Born Leap Day of 1960 in Bludenz, Austria Bassist Peter Herbert has been living in Paris since 2003 (in New York from 1989-2003) and leads a busy schedule with an average of 100 concerts annually throughout the world. Trained as a classical … read more »

Austrian-born, Brooklyn-based drummer and composer Peter Kronreif has built an international career across jazz and contemporary music. Early collaborations with Harry Sokal, Martin Reiter, Philipp Nykrin, Johannes Enders and Alegre Corrêa brought him to more than 20 countries and earned him the … read more »

Peter Rom, guitar player, composer and co-founder of JazzWerkstatt Wien has been a creative cornerstone of many projects in and around the Jazz/Electronic and Improvised Music scene, being part of Ensembles like Synesthetic4, Rom Schaerer Eberle, Die Stottern und JazzWerkstatt Wien… His … 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 »

Philipp Nykrin, born 1984 in Salzburg into a family of musicians and music educators, has made his name in Austria as well as abroad. Even though, at a very young age, Nykrin started to play the violin and was classically trained, he … read more »

Viola Falb, Christoph Pepe Auer, Florian Fennes and Arnold Zamarin are four highly experimental musicians who are always searching for new musical challenges and like to look beyond the obvious boundaries. They all come from the environment of the Jazz Werkstatt Vienna. … 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 »

“In spite of all the wild things that are in a flow here, this music always has that calming clarity that otherwise only happens when listening to Bach’s cello suites, but which is also immensely warm.” – Victoriah Szirmai, JAZZTHETIK (DE) It … read more »

Jazz music of a tremendously elegant quality, the kind that does not linger in the classical realm, but rather unfolds many interesting interconnections to other styles. Purple is the Color sets sail to special musical shores, to shores on which the dignified … read more »