INK STILL WET COMPOSER CONDUCTOR WORKSHOP’s aim is to create a platform for young composers and to promote a unique creative exchange between audiences, composers and performing musicians. Deadline for application: 16th of January 2022. Led by the Composer in Residence of the … read more »
WIEN MODERN, Austria’s largest festival for new music, now in its 34th edition, could be given sub-headers this year like: a major opera premiere at the Odeon, music theatre and dance, performances, multimedia and images, immersive projects, walk-in installations and exhibitions, major … read more »
From October 30th to November 30th, 2021, the WIEN MODERN festival, with its 34th edition, will once again open a month-long major platform for inspiring encounters between artists and listeners of new music of all forms and colors. A total of 120 … read more »
Georg Friedrich Haas – born 1953 in Graz – grew up in Tschagguns (Vorarlberg). In his early student days he took a short detour into natural sciences, before he finally turned to a musical career and started to study at the University … read more »
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) in Northern England was founded in 1978 and is one of the most important festivals for Contemporary Music in Europe. Last November, 39 concerts with 20 premieres were presented there. Again, several Austrian ensembles and composers … read more »
The new opera Morgen und Abend (libretto: Jon Fosse) by Georg Friedrich Haas will premiere on the 13th of November at the Royal Opera House in London. Starring in the main roles are among others the actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, soprano Sarah Wegener and the baritone Christoph Pohl. … read more »
Donaueschingen Music Days 2015 October 16 – 18, 2015 Donaueschingen, Germany The Donaueschingen Music Days (in German: Donaueschinger Musiktage) is a festival for contemporary music that takes place every October in the small town of Donaueschingen in Germany. Founded in 1921, it is one of … read more »
Austrian Heartbeats #2 Selected by Georg Friedrich Haas Composers: Marco Döttlinger | Peter Jakober | Hannes Kerschbaumer | Manuela Meier The new CD “Austrian Heartbeats #2 – selected by Georg Friedrich Haas”, which is dedicated to contemporary music from Austria, has just been released. The Austrian composer Georg … read more »
Digital scores by the Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas are now available for purchase, download and print in the music austria sheet music shop. Haas, whose oeuvre was a key focus of the WIEN MODERN festival in 2014, has emerged as one of … read more »
MaerzMusik Festival 2015 Berlin, DE March 20 – 29, 2015 MaerzMusik in Berlin is a festival that explores contemporary time issues in the form of concerts, sound installations, art performances, film projects and discourse sessions. With the Austrian Berno Odo Polzer as the new artistic … read more »