Jazzon is composition award contest and special network of EU jazz institutions. The competition will be carried out by cooperating EU institutions, national coordinators. Young musicians are called to enter the competition by sending a composition to the national coordinators. LokalPatriot (Slovenia), … read more »
Maja Osojnik
There are a few musicians and artists who do not want to commit to any kind of categorizations, who vehemently defend themselves against having to meet expectations in their work, who defy conventions and take the time to look at the bigger … read more »
Austria’s Young Composers: Veronika Mayer
There’s a lot going on in Austria’s contemporary music scene. Mainly responsible for this development is a new generation of composers, who expand the spectrum of contemporary music with many never-before-heard facets. This time in the series “Austria’s Young Composers”, mica – … read more »
Wolfgang Seierl – The Other and Time & Clouds
Wolfgang Seierl is one of those rare artists who seem too good to be true. His ability to combine multiple disciplines, such as the visual arts, compositions, and paintings, makes him stand out as an artist. The exhibition will be inaugurated by … read more »
Austria’s Young Composers: Šimon Voseček
There’s a lot going on in Austria’s contemporary music scene. Mainly responsible for this development is a new generation of composers, who expand the spectrum of contemporary music with many never-before-heard facets. This time in the series “Austria’s Young Composers”, mica – … read more »
Searching for Traces – Lukas Ligeti
“Every kind of music is danceable, if you understand what the music is about,” proclaims the New York-based composer and percussionist Lukas Ligeti, who was born in Vienna. Really any music? Even a piano sonata by Boulez? “Yes!” The conviction with which … read more »
Austria’s Young Composers: Eva Reiter
Eva Reiter is without doubt one of the most active and diverse interpreters in the country. Born in 1976 in Vienna, the recorder and viol player is also very active as a composer, focusing especially on the field of contemporary music. Fast … read more »
Portrait: Friedrich Cerha
In recent decades hardly anyone has influenced Austrian music as intensely as Friedrich Cerha. He may be best known as a composer, who works with a variety of styles and repetitively inspires with new ways of composing and yet claims to have … read more »
Sound Park Austria 5: Jazz – 23 February 2011
Sound Park Austria (SPA) aims to stimulate the creative exchange between Austrian and British musicians whose repertoire encompasses music outside the classical tradition. As part of this concert the ACF London proudly presents The Flow from Austria. Andi Tausch, guitar and Hans-Koller … read more »
Liverpool Sound City
Liverpool Sound City (19th – 22nd May 2010) is the largest music festival and industry conference in the North of the UK. Every May, Liverpool Sound City presents over 300 artists from over 20 different countries, in 30 city centre venues to … read more »