Compassion, Memory, Commitment: Ingrid Schmoliner’s “MNEEM”
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
2d ago
At the Wien Modern festival in 2019, the Vienna Konzerthaus was treated to a one-hour tour de force from pianist Ingrid Schmoliner. Now, the performance is available as a meticulously designed physical release on Ventil Records. Christoph Benkeser recently spoke to Schmoliner via Zoom in her Vienna apartment: fresh tulips on the table, a pair of cats stalking past the camera from time to time. “A hell of a week,” she says. Perhaps that’s what made for such an unusually open, honest conversation – about aggression and depression, the memory of stones, and the right piano for a marathon. And mus ..read more
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Composition Competition: ART Ensemble NRW
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
2d ago
The northwest German ART Ensemble NRW, specializing in contemporary music, has announced a Kafka-themed composition competition for the 2024 edition of the festival Klangräume Düsseldorf. 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka, that unique chronicler of a world stumbling into modernity and the psychological effects on the individual. The ART Ensemble NRW has announced a commemorative composition competition for pieces referencing Kafka’s work. Just the facts Submissions should be no longer than 8 minutes long and should make reference to Kafka’s writings, including poems ..read more
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NASOM at 20: Die Strottern
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
6d ago
The world has changed a lot in the last twenty years, and so has Austrian music. In this series, we’re checking in with artists chosen over the past two decades to take part in NASOM – The New Austrian Sound of Music – an initiative of the Austrian Foreign Ministry (BMEIA) to foster the international careers of young Austria-based musicians and groups. This time, we’re especially excited to feature an act from the very beginnings of the NASOM project: Vienna musical legends Die Strottern. They’re a little like those guys in school who were super-cool and popular but were al ..read more
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5 Million Pesos Special: HALS, Niklouds 4tet, & ECHOBoomer Live
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
6d ago
5 Million Pesos is a monthly concert series featuring young jazz in and from Austria, presented by Radiokulturhaus Vienna and the Radio Ö1 jazz department. The April edition is a 5 Million Pesos special: a triple bill and live broadcast from Vienna’s RadioKulturhaus. For the sixth time, the RadioKulturhaus and the Ö1 jazz department present a special edition of the 5 Million Pesos series of young Austrian jazz: the Radiokulturhaus’s Grosse Sendesaal will host a supersized edition of the Ö1 radio show “On Stage”, which will simulcast the concert live from the broadcasting hall. As usual, th ..read more
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NASOM at 20: Alicia Edelweiss
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
1w ago
The world has changed a lot in the last twenty years, and so has Austrian music. In this series, we’re checking in with artists chosen over the past two decades to take part in NASOM – The New Austrian Sound of Music – an initiative of the Austrian Foreign Ministry (BMEIA) to foster the international careers of young Austria-based musicians and groups. This time, we’ve asked an artist still in the middle of her two-year NASOM period: the unique singer-songwriter Alicia Edelweiss. Alicia Edelweiss is an Austro-British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Vienna, known for her id ..read more
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Austrian Music Export at jazzahead! 2024
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
2w ago
Every year in April, jazzahead! turns Bremen into an international jazz metropolis, and Austria has traditionally been very well represented. That’s true this year as well, but with a twist: Austrian Music Export will be there, live and in person! jazzahead! is one of the world’s largest jazz business events, and the Austria stand has been a fixture at it for years. This year, we’re excited to report that we’ll be taking it over this year! Our goal is – as always – to provide an attractive and comfortable setting, where Austrian musicians and music professionals can connect with thei ..read more
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Extra! Apply Now for SHAPE+ 2024-25
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
2w ago
SHAPE+ is an platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the EU. Now in its third year, the program has announced a new open call for artists to apply for the working period July 15, 2024 – July 14, 2025. The goal of SHAPE+ is to help further the careers of European artists through group residencies, commissions, and performances. If accepted as one of 51 SHAPE+ artists, the program will promote you and your activities through social media and weekly interviews with their media partners, which include NTS Radio, Resonance FM, and Wire Magazine. Additionally, 17 forward-thin ..read more
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5 Million Pesos: Cili Marsall Solo
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
2w ago
5 Million Pesos is a monthly concert series featuring young jazz in and from Austria, presented by Radiokulturhaus Vienna and the Radio Ö1 jazz department. Cili Marsall – solo piano The March edition of the 5 Million Pesos concerts is something of an exception. The Vienna pianist Cili Marsall is the fresh, young face of a venerable tradition: boogie-woogie piano. Born in Hungary in 2000, Marsall was performing with her father, clarinettist and saxophonist David Laszlo Marsall, by the time she was a teenager. At 16 she settled on the piano, studying boogie-woogie with Andrea ..read more
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FM4 Soundpark Act of the Month: Jon Gravy
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
2w ago
Vienna producer Jon Gravy has just released his third album, 21 Dreams. The songs on the record are equally well suited to headphones and to the dance floor, and have made him the FM4 Soundpark Act for March. A visit to his family in South Africa changed Jon Gravy’s life, musically speaking. He brought back a CD – “kwaito and house from Johannesburg. That was the first time I realized, as a teenager, that there was house music besides David Guetta. That’s when I started loving it; that’s where the journey started.” Kwaito is a house music variant born in the Johannesburg area. Its 4/4 beat is ..read more
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20 Years of the JazzWerkstatt Wien
Austrian Music Export
by Philip Yaeger
3w ago
These days, it’s impossible to imagine jazz in Austria without the JazzWerkstatt Wien. In point of fact, however, the artistic collective was founded twenty years ago, in 2004, by Daniel Riegler, Peter Rom, Clemens Salesny, Bernd Satzinger, Wolfgang Schiftner und Clemens Wenger, to counteract the lack of performance opportunities for young musicians. For their 20th anniversary, the JazzWerkstatt has put together a year-long program of events, the next of which – “10 Acts In 10 Minutes” – will take place on March 10th at Porgy & Bess. The first JazzWerkstatt festival in 2005 was a wake-up c ..read more
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