Clara Luzia – the beautiful sound of the name is not only wonderfully easy on the ears, but just as easily sticks in the mind. After she won the Austrian Amadeus Award in the category “FM4 Alternative Act of the Year” in … read more »

In terms of today’s most significant and important personalities of the local jazz scene, one of the top names on the list is Georg Breinschmid. Numerous extraordinary projects show that this musician strives for creative freedom and has no fear when it … read more »

After a very long winter and a modest spring, summer has finally arrived here in Austria and is here to stay for a while, which of course comes with various music festivals. Besides numerous local festivals, Austria also has a good share … read more »

From 28 October to 25 November 2011, Vienna will once again be the centre for contemporary music. This year’s festival will showcase British music under the title «UK Collection», while Austrian composers Friedrich Cerha, Wolfgang Mitterer and Gerald Resch will also be … read more »

The radio.string.quartet.vienna is an ensemble that is always full of musical surprises and is not satisfied with the reproduction of the familiar, but always tries to tread new paths, no matter how unusual they may seem. With their classical music backgrounds, the … read more »

Fortunately they still exist. Artists, who position themselves as true free spirits, who don’t feel the need to look to the left and the right, who pull through without the ifs and buts, who don’t care about the expectations and opinions of … read more »

The roaring 20s are having a comeback and the swinging 60s are suddenly retro? Responsible for this musical trip into the past is among others the Upper Austrian Marcus Füreder, who is currently successfully conquering the international club and electronic music scene … read more »

A vanishingly small percentage of the profits in the music industry end up with the artists themselves. The questions whether and how there can be fair circumstances in these economic structures were discussed at the panel on distributive justice. The example is … read more »

For 40 years now, the guitarist, composer, arranger, bandleader and vocalist Harri Stojka has fully dedicated himself to music. Today this  multifaceted artist is without a doubt one of the most internationally renowned and successful jazz musicians in Austria. There is hardly … read more »

An unrealistic issue in the glory days of the majors, but now a widespread practice: considerable successes in music are possible and achievable with the Do-It-Yourself principle. Based on this DIY-ethos, presenter Franz Hergovich, Franz Adrian Wenzl (a.k.a. Austrofred) and Texta members … read more »