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 »
He stands as one of the organizers behind the specialist ensemble for new music PLATYPUS, which gives him the opportunity to be in the background as a composer with reserve and humility. However, with his mere 31 years of age, HANNES DUFEK … read more »
Spreading the music of young composers, to love and appreciate it with all its (frequent) imperfections – this has been the resolution of the Platypus Association for contemporary music from the very beginning. Although most people were at first sceptical about the … read more »