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Genre(s): Contemporary Music, Jazz/Improvised MusicFrom: Carinthia, Vienna, Austria
Contact: Ingrid.schmoliner@klingt.org
Website: ingridschmoliner.klingt.org/
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BIOGRAPHY
Ingrid Schmoliner lives and works as a freelance musician, composer, curator, teacher and activist in Vienna. Through her precise sound research and sophisticated, nuanced work on the piano and voice, she has made herself a name as a musician, composer and innovative creator. Schmoliner works on internationally renowned stages as a performer, improviser and composer. Artistically she moves in the genres of new music, experimental and improvised music, avant-garde, jazz, ambient music, free jazz, folk music, minimal music, techno. As a lecturer she is active in the areas of yodeling, overtone singing, improvisation, instant composing and extended playing techniques on the piano.
Besides her solo program, which she constantly develops further, and new collaborations with film (ARAF_Berlinale, etc.) and theater (DER DIBBUK_Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom, JACKIE_Lac-Theater/ Lugano/ Switzerland, etc.) she continuously works with her ensembles like NABELÓSE with Elena Kakaliagou, GRIFF (Emilio Gordoa, Adam Pultz Melbye), DRANK with Alexander Kranabetter, and ELLEGGUA with Elektro Guzzi and WATUSSI (Pascal Niggenkemper, Joachim Badenhorst).
Schmoliner cofounded the annual Festival NEW ADITS for all styles of contemporary – present music and interdisciplinary performances ,which is based in Carinthia and happening for more than 10 years now.