OFFICE UKRAINE. SHELTER FOR UKRAINIAN ARTISTS is a service to people from Ukraine from the cultural sector, seeking help. It acts as a mediation and coordination office and also offers concrete support. The aid project has been developed in cooperation with the … read more »
popfest Vienna 2022
POPFEST WIEN returns to Karlsplatz at the end of July (28th – 31st) with fresh and timely perspectives, new locations and formats, and with over 50 acts. Opening the mainstage on Thursday will be KEROSIN95, EUROTEURO, FRIEDBERG and W1ZE. To discover more … read more »
“We show the stories of our time” – Carmen C. Kruse and Leonora Scheib (CIVIC OPERA CREATIONS)
With CIVIC OPERA CREATIONS (COCREATIONS), the two producers CARMEN C. KRUSE and LEONORA SCHEIB develop new opera works and pieces for musical theatre with long-term critical exchange processes. The project is shaped by recurrent conversation formats and an honest interest in the … read more »
NOPERAS! Open Call
Within the framework of the funding initiative NOperas! of the Fonds Experimentelles Musiktheater [feXm], several theatres join together to form an association. Together with feXm, they realise a project that is shown at the participating theatres within one season. Applications are open … read more »
CALL FOR PROPOSALS – INTERNATIONAL MUSIC JOURNALISM AWARD 2022
Reeperbahn Festival invites you to submit proposals for their 6th annual INTERNATIONAL MUSIC JOURNALISM AWARD (IMJA)! Once again they are asking the community to help identify the music journalist of the year and the year’s best works of music journalism. You can … read more »
Austrian Music Highlights #14
School’s out for summer! (Well, almost.) And with the breaking-free of 4-cornered quarters, one is hit with the warm embrace of an inevitably hot summer, and all the soundtracks – live or recorded – to take us through it. Check out some … read more »
25 ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE YOUNG TALENT PROGRAM – THE NEW AUSTRIAN SOUND OF MUSIC (NASOM) 2023/24
In cooperation with mica – music austria, Austrian Music Export and the Austrian music universities, an expert jury selected five up-and-coming ensembles or musicians in five different genres: classical, jazz, global music, contemporary music and pop/electronic for the new NASOM edition 2023/24. … read more »
“THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO KEEP IT ADVENTUROUS AND FRESH” – PRESSYES
With “Breeze In Breeze Out” (Assim Records) RENEE MÜHLBERGER aka PRESSYES presents an album as colorful as it is relaxed, defying the daily grind. An album that eloquently tells of wanderlust and for this purpose plunders everything that the music pool has … read more »
“I ALWAYS FIND IT EXCITING WHEN ELEMENTS OF POP ARE APPLIED IN A BOUNDLESS CONTEXT” – KENJI ARAKI
With “Leidenzwang” (Affine Records) digital artist KENJI ARAKI releases arguably one of the most compelling positions on the state of advanced electronic music, between dystopian post-club exploration, aural body horror, dented retro fragments and extravagant breakcore elements. The fact that there is … read more »
BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL JAZZ COMPETITION 2023 AT EUROPAFEST
Competition, concerts, jam sessions, jazz workshops and more – are all part of the BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL JAZZ COMPETITION 2023 at Europafest! Deadline to apply is March 1st, 2023. Dates of events: 7 – 15 July 2023 Open for: instrumentalists and vocalists of all nationalities. Bands … read more »