Soundings, the ACF’s platform for contemporary music, presents a special tribute to Mahler on the 150th anniversary of his birth. This year’s composers have been invited to compose new works ‘inspired’ by Mahler. From Tuesday 11 – Friday 14 May 2010 composers … read more »

  A weekend full of debut performances and world premieres: For one weekend in the year, one of the most important festivals for comtemporary music in the German city Witten gathers musicians and music lovers from around the world to a three-day … read more »

Johannes Maria Staud draws from incredibly rich sources to weave mystery and query into his compositions.  It is a form of musing which often draws from a concrete source of inspiration in order to provide a new constitution, in an abstract form … read more »

Olga Neuwirth remains a consistently fascinating, albeit a serious young voice in contemporary music today.  Her varied output, collaborative productions in the form of radio plays, theatre music, film and film music, installations and instrumental works are among the finest contributions to … read more »

For the longest time, the music of Sofa Surfers had been synonymous with the laid-back groove that seemed to come out of every orifice of Vienna’s music scene in the mid- to late nineties. Among all the DJs and remixers, they stood … read more »

Whatever perception you might have had of Austria, there is a province in the far East of the country called Burgenland that is guaranteed be its polar opposite: It is almost completely flat,  mostly rural, but deeply multicultural with very strong Croatian, … read more »

With Dorian Concept, we are talking about one of the most promising acts of the Austrian music scene. Hardly any other Austrian musician has made the jump from his own four walls into the international music world at such a breathtaking pace. … read more »

Looking at the numerous projects in which Max Nagl is involved, one thing instantly becomes quite clear. This is a musician who wants to create his own freedom and for whom the words “fear of contact” are a foreign term. There is … read more »

Individuality, versatility, an open mind and the will to experiment in addition to technical skill, of course, are the qualities one ideally hopes to find in a jazz musician. But even with someone like Wolfgang Puschnig, who is always looking for new … read more »