INFOBOX

VIDEO

BIOGRAPHY

MATTHIAS KRANEBITTER was born 1980 in Vienna, Austria. He studied electro-acoustic composition with Dieter Kaufmann and German Toro-Perez, film and media composition with Klaus-Peter Sattler and piano with Christiane Karajeva at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He continued his studies with a postgraduate course at the Conservatory van Amsterdam as well as at the University of Graz with Alexander Stankovski.

“My music is characterized by carnevalistic aspects: a post-modern relativisation of musical aesthetics of the past, a dense accumulation and mash-up from everyday life’s trash sounds to a flittering-colourful and hyper-heterogenic sound flood, a comic-like, grotesque distortion of clichéd musical gestures with an ironic ambivalence, aiming for a realisation of a culture- liberated Art brut in music.”

Awards:
1st Prize Gustav Mahler Composition Competition 2006
2nd Prize Zurich Jazz Orchestra Competition
1st Prize Project Young Composers Gaudeamus Music Week Amsterdam 2009
Winner of the International Composition Competition Impuls Academy in Graz 2013
Publicity Prize of the SKE Austro Mechana 2013
Förderungspreis of the City of Vienna 2014

For 2015 he was awarded a scholarship from the Junge Akademie and invited to Berlin by the Akademie der Künste.

He is founder of the ensemble Black Page Orchestra as well as one of the initiators of UNSAFE+SOUNDS FESTIVAL – antidisciplinary Festival / Media Arts Music in Vienna.

RELATED ARTICLES

Matthias Kranebitter at MATA Festival in NYC

MATA Festival, The Kitchen, New York April 13-18, 2015 The MATA Festival is a New York-based annual contemporary classical music festival devoted to championing the works of young composers. MATA closes its festival with Talea … read more »

Promoting the Next Generation: Austria’s Young Composers

mica – music austria has put together a promotional package consisting of several modules for the younger representatives of contemporary music in Austria. 23 composers are represented with their compositions on 3 CDs. Furthermore, the … read more »

Austria's Young Composers: Matthias Kranebitter

The field of contemporary music in Austria is evolving. Responsible for this development is above all a new generation of composers, who expand the spectrum of contemporary music in this country with fascinating new facets. … read more »