Ensemble Platypus

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is an egg-laying mammal. Much about this resilient species is strange, inexplicable, impossible to classify, and it is precisely these enigmatic categories that interest the Platypus ensemble. Engaging with the spaces in between is what makes Platypus work and … read more »

Over the past two decades, contemporary music in Austrian concert halls has been subject to a partly abrupt, partly slow-moving change in the programming of large Austrian orchestras. As a consequence, medium-sized and smaller ensembles have become all the more significant in … read more »