Gunter Schneider

Born 1954 in Bludenz, Austria

Studied guitar and musicology (Dr.phil.) in Innsbruck and teaches guitar and contemporary music at the Vienna University of Music and the Performing Arts (Univ.Prof.).
He has made himself a name both as soloist and in various ensembles in the field of contemporary avantgarde and exspecially improvised music. He has worked with the RSO Wien, the Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, WDR-Sinfonieorchster Köln, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Klangforum Wien, Burkhard Stangl’s Maxixe… special and collective projects, among others the duo together with his wife Barbara Romen and Harsch (with B.Romen, Burkhard Stangl und Christof Kurzmann), Tyromanie (music for 9 Tyrolean musicians), Stimmen der Steine erspüren (Tracking stones’ voices), using stone objects by sculptor Kassian Erhart,
Klopfzeichen together with wood print artists Michael Schneider and Miida Seiichiro (Tokyo Geidai Univ.) and Barbara Romen.
Gunter Schneider and Barbara Romen have performed, both in Japan and Europe, with several Japanese musicians from the improvisational and new music scene (Sugimoto Taku, Akiyama Tetuzi, Unami Taku, Ishikawa Ko). He has composed music for the famous Japanese sho-player Miyata Mayumi together with Suzuki Tosiya, recorders, and Stefan Hussong, accordion („MU“, commissioned by and performed at Klangspuren Schwaz 2002).

He composed music for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, singers and orchestra. Pieces for guitar were published by Doblinger, UE, and Helbling. Commissions by the Austrian Federal Ministery of Cultural Affairs, the Tyrolean Government, the ORF, and Klangspuren Schwaz. Performances among others at Musikprotokoll des Steirischen Herbstes, at the festival Wien modern, Osterfestival Innsbruck, ORF Wien and Innsbruck. 1993 Emil-Berlanda-Preis of the Tyrolean Government. Several prizes for compositions.

Johannes Holik

Born 1961 in Klosterneuburg.

Studies of Economy at the University for Economy Vienna. Education in piano, harmony and counterpoint. Works in the field of music management and composed more than 200 works of all genres.

Commissions from:

NÖ Tonkünstlerorchester
Ensemble Neue Streicher
Concerto grosso
Casino AG Austria
Stadtgemeinde Klosterneuburg
Klosterneuburger Symphonie
Pfarre Dornbach
Chor Stockerau
Wiener Concertverein
Vienna Flautists
Stadt Wien (MA7)
Danubia Trio
Artemistrio
NÖ. Kulturszene
Amt der NÖ.Landesreg.
Stadt Krems
Wiener Instrumentalsolisten
Pfarre Hausleiten
Industrieviertelfestival
Theater Forum Schwechat
Land Niederösterreich
Stift Klosterneuburg

Christoph Cech

since the early 80ies active as co-founder, as pianist/composer/conductor in various ensembles with international concert activities, among those are: “Nouvelle Cuisine” Bigband and the “Janus” Ensemble.

His artistic work includes music as well for chamber music ensembles as for big symphonic conceptions.

1996: „Aus allen Blüten Bitternis“, Opera about Stefan Zweig premiered at Wiener Kammeroper;
1998 „Requiem für einen lebenden Toten“ in the frame of the Brucknerfestes Linz;
1999 „Tripelkonzert“ for the Wiener Klaviertrio and the Camerata Bregenz in the big hall of Musikverein Vienna;
2004 „IO“, Orchestra composition for the inauguration of the Brucknerfestes Linz, in this year also “artist in residence” at Brucknerhaus Linz;
2005: „Orfeo“ after the original composition by C.Monteverdi, produced by Neue Oper Wien;
2008: Hofkirche Innsbruck: premiere of „Missa“ for the Tiroler Festspiele Erl
Current Projects: cultural capital Linz 09: Cantata „Ida und Jim“, collaboration at „Holz und Blech“.
2010: artist in residence for “Musik aktuell”, Lower Austria

1998 - 2005 Christoph Cech was teaching harmony and counterpoint at the University for Music and Performin Arts Vienna, since 1999 he is teaching at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz as director of the institute for jazz and improvised music des Instituts, since 2004 also habilitation as professor in the subject of jazz composition.

Hannes Drobetz

Born in Neunkirchen/Lower Austria in 1976

Education
Study of voice and songwriting at the Berklee College of Music in Boston/USA, Music and Spanish for teaching certificate at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna (graduated with honors), Study of IGP (Instrumental Vocal Pedagogy) Piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Professor Johannes Kutrowatz
Study of IGP (Instrumental Vocal Pedagogy) Vocals at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Professor Georgia Michaelides
Private education in SLS (Speech-Level-Singing) with Romana Carén
Piano studies at the Vienna conservatory with Professor Karl Barth

Artistic References

Since 2004 freelance musician, Working as a singer, pianist, arranger, composer, and ensemble leader

Cooperation with Dennis Jale, Wolfgang Ambros, Christian Kolonovits,
Alfons Haider, Marika Lichter, Uwe Kröger, Zabine, Ludwig Hirsch, Gary Lux,
Michael Seida, Sweet Inspirations & TCB-Band (Original Choir and Band of Elvis Presley), the Vienna Symphony, the Ambassade Orchestra Vienna

Pedagogical References

since 2006: teaching at the Vienna Musical School, the Performing Center Austria and the Vienna, Conservatory (subjects: correpetition, voice training, vocal ensembles)
2004 – 2006: teaching at the Volkshochschule (adult education center) Vienna West
2003/2004: Music teacher at the Bundesgymnasium (high school) Wien XVI Maroltingergasse
2002/2003 Unterrichtspraktikum (PGCE equivalent) at the BG/BRG (high school) Perchtoldsdorf
1994-1998 Teaching piano at the music school Wimpassing in Lower Austria

Awards

Honorary Award of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture 2001, Grant for graduates of artistic studies of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, Financial support for studying abroad by the culture fund of the government of Lower Austria, Grants by the Siegfrid-Ludwig-Fund and the Julius-Raab-Foundation.

Adriane Muttenthaler

pianist & composer & arranger
born 1955 in Canada, living in Austria
studied at Vienna Music University and Vienna Conservatory
leader of the Jazzsextett „CRISS-CROSS“:

1986 Israel tour
1987 Jazzfestival Nickelsdorf/ Austria
1989 Woche der Begegnung Klagenfurt/ Austria
1990 BRD-DDR-tour
1991 Zeitgenössischer Herbst Niederösterreich/ Austria
1992 Donauinselfest Vienna
1993 Donauinselfest Vienna, Turkey tour
1994 International Jazzfest Vienna
1995 Turkey tour, Jordan tour
1996 International Jazzfestival, Zagreb, Croatia
1999 Turkey tour
2000 Mexiko tour
2002 Serbia-Montenegro tour
2003 Turkey tour
2003 Hungary tour, Serbia-Montenegro tour
2004 Mexiko tour
2005 Italy tour, International Jazzdays, Zagreb, Croatia, International Jazzfestival Pancevo, Serbia-Montenegro, Rumania-tour
2006 Mexiko tour
2007 Mexiko tour (Zacatecas, Mexico City)
2008 Istanbul – Turkey, International Jazzfestival Varna, Bulgaria

music-awards for composition by:
Theodor-Körner-Stiftung
Austrian Ministry of Education & Arts
Cultural Department of Vienna
Appreciation Award of Music of Lower Austria ( 2003)

activities:

scholarship for composition by the Republic of Austria (1999)
cross-over-compositions (jazz & classical music) for following ensembles (chamber-music):
“Koehne quartet” + „Spring String Quartet“ (string-quartet)
“Das Boesze Salonorchester” (chamber-orchestra)
“NÖ-Bläsersolisten” (wood-wind-quintett)
compositions for films and dance-theatre
broadcasts & telecasts of her compositions in Europe, Asia & America
played with Chet Baker, Leo Wright, Wolfgang Puschnig, etc.
workshops in Austria and abroad

discography:

CD „Asphalt & Neon“ CRISS-CROSS (gramola)
CD „Black Cherries“ Adriane Muttenthaler & Ali Gaggl (gramola)
CD „visions & realities“ CRISS-CROSS ( extraplatte)
CD „kaleidoscope“ CRISS-CROSS (extraplatte)
CD „places & faces“ CRISS-CROSS & stringquartet (PG records)
CD “crazy moon” CRISS-CROSS (extraplatte)

1977
Born on May 15 in Mödling, Lower Austria

1993-1995
Studied composition at the Josef Matthias Hauer Conservatory in Wiener Neustadt

1995-2001
Studied composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (harmony and counterpoint
with Dietmar Schermann)
Studies in composition with Erich Urbanner, electro-acoustical composition with Dieter Kaufmann

1996
Participation in the Prague-Vienna-Budapest International Summer Academy (composition with Ivana Loudova)

1999
Participation in the 7th International Academy for New Composition and Audio Art (scholarship from ”Avantgarde Schwaz 1999”); (composition with Boguslaw Schaeffer, computer music with Marek Cholonieweski)

2000
Participation in the International Bartók Seminar Szombathely (Manuel Hidalgo)

Prizes (selection):
Province of Lower Austria Recognition Prize (1994);
Ernst-Vogel-Preis (1995)
2nd Prize in the “Hannover Biennale of New Music” competition for composition (1997)
Theodor Körner Prize (1997)
Ernst Krenek Prize of the City of Vienna (2002)
Supportive Award for Music of the Republic of Austria (2003)

Maxim Seloujanov was born in 1967 in Moscow. He began to learn the piano at the age of five and also started to compose. Some years later he wrote his first poems and painted his first pictures. He studied music theory at a music conservatory in Moscow and during this period also composed several works.

Due to his political and ideological views he came up against the regulatory practices of power. He was illegally excluded from the conservatory but managed to be re-admitted again.

In Moscow Seloujanov was one of the organisers of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the State Radio of the USSR and became its honorary director. He founded the Klebnikov Elektronique Studio for Electronic Music and attempted to cooperate with the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz) in organising the first festival for electronic art in Moscow. The break-up of the Soviet Union thwarted this plan.

In 1990 Seloujanov contacted the composer Boguslav Schaeffer, a teacher at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and moved to Austria. In Salzburg Seloujanov wrote many musical and theatrical works as well as poems. In 1993 Seloujanov staged his play “Hampelmann”. When he completed his studies in 1998 he was a prize-winner at the “Ensemblia” competition for composition in Mönchengladbach. Seloujanov also held lecturing appointments in Salzburg. At first he held a course in the audio-visual studio of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Paris-Lodron University and later he taught at the Mozarteum University from 1999 to 2004.

In 1999 Seloujanov was awarded Austrian citizenship because of special achievements. One year later he moved to Munich.

In Munich he wrote several works for chamber ensemble, works for orchestra, and pieces for music-theatre including the opera Fräulein Lenin: ja-ja, which in 2004 received the music grant of the regional capital; the opera “Veruka”, a work commissioned by the 7th “A•Devantgarde” Festival; the “Survarianten eines Themas B-A-G-D-A-D” for large orchestra (dedicated to the commemoration of the last Iraq war), the “2ndSinn-Phonie”, which showed an “iridescent colour effect of the music and of the orchestra on the public” (R. Bonelli), and the chamber music piece “Badinage”, which was commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera and described in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as “humour in sound”.

In 2002 Seloujanov was awarded the Theodor Körner Encouragement Prize in Vienna and in Berlin he received a prize from the Neuköllner Opera.

In 2003 the composer and his œuvre were presented by Bavarian Radio in a live broadcast in the series Klassik Plus.

In 2005 Seloujanov was commissioned by the Bavarian State Theatre to write a music-theatre piece for the festival Festspiel+. The work “tele-machia oder eine Ulyssee: Porträt eines jungen Kunstunternehmens” – described by La Tribune as “an inter-active spectacle”, and by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a “pleasurable happening” – was presented in the summer of the same year.

In 2006 Seloujanov was awarded the renowned Rome Prize and he spent a year in the German Academy Villa Massimo, the most important federal institution for sponsoring highly talented artists.

Alfred Gradinger a performer, composer and author of Viennese tunes started to play the accordion at the age of 6 and has been working as a professional musician since 1978. Together with Rudi Koschelu (contra guitar), he founded the duo “Weaner Spatz’n” (”The Vienna Sparrows”). At that time they were the youngest professional duo in the Austrian music scene and won 1983 and 1984 several prizes for entertaining music.
Since then the duo is focussing on the old Viennese tunes as well as on ambitious instrumental music.

Alfred Gradinger’s activities range from writing song texts and film scripts to composing in various musical styles.

He plays in several classical “Schrammel music” ensembles (”Vindobona-Schrammeln”, “Berg&Tal-Schrammeln”) and initiated the publishing of several CDs of contemporary folk music. He accompanies singers at live performance as well as in the sound studio, one of his long term musical partners is the famous Austrian actor Karl Merkatz. Concert tours led Alfred Gradinger around the world, he published numerous records and CDs and appeared in radio broadcasts as well as TV productions (”Kaisermühlen-Blues”, “Musikantenstadl”).

Gerd Kühr

Born in 1952. He studied composition with Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer at the Salzburg “Mozarteum” and with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne, as well as conducting with Gerhard Wimberger (“Mozarteum”) and with Sergiu Celibidache. He worked as a coach at the Cologne Opera and at the Graz Opera. As orchestral and opera conductor he appears in Austria and abroad. 1992-1994 he was teaching composition as a guest professor at the Salzburg “Mozarteum”, since 1994 he is full professor of composition and theory of music at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz (Austria).

He has received numerous prizes, among others “Förderpreis” of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Rolf-Liebermann-Stipendium für Opernkomponisten, Österreichischer Förderungspreis, Ernst-Krenek-Prize of the City Vienna.

As composer he has received many commissions (orchestra, ensemble, chamber music, choir), and his works are played at the renowned international festivals, f. i. Wien Modern, Almeida Festival, Huddersfield Festival, styrian autumn, Musica Viva, World Music Days, Bregenz Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.Artistic co-operation among others with Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Broadcasting, Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Choir of the Bavarian Broadcasting, with Ulf Schirmer, Emilio Pomárico, Friedrich Cerha, Lothar Zagrosek, Oliver Knussen, Arturo Tamayo as well as Paul Meyer, Heinrich Schiff, Stefan Vladar, Florian Kitt and Markus Hinterhäuser etc.

1985 International Rostrum of Composers (UNESCO, Paris), recommended work: Lamento e Conforto. In 1988 world premiere of his opera Stallerhof (libretto by Franz Xaver Kroetz) at the First Munich Biennale (new productions in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria), in 1999 world premiere of his opera Tod und Teufel (libretto by Peter Turrini) in the Graz Opera. Two portrait concerts (“next generation”) at the Salzburg Festival in 2000, in 2001/2002 composer in residence at the Wiener Concert-Verein (Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna Symphonic), in 2003 portrait concerts at the Styriarte Festival (Graz). 2005 Gerd Kühr Project (opening concert musikprotokoll, festival styrian autumn). 2006 International Rostrum of Composers (UNESCO, Paris), recommended work: Revue instrumentale et électronique.

Most of his works are published by Éditions Durand, Paris.

Wladmir Pantchev

Education
1956 - 1963 Children’s music-school
1963 - 1967 Grammar school (music conservatory)
1967 - 1972 Music academy Sofia

Further Studies
1986 - 1987 with Edisson Denisov in Moscow
1989 with Friedrich Goldmann in Berlin


Activities
1970 - 1978 Conductor at National-Operatheater Sofia

1974 - 1978 Editor at a music publisher

1987 - 1991 Music academy Sofia: Professor (chamber music for singers/piano-singing)

since 1992 Editor at the Universal Edition

1992/1993 Conservatory of the City of Vienna: Piano
accompaniment

since 1995 “Lilienfelder” summer academy: directing a composition class
St. Gallen: directing a piano/singing class


since 1998: Vicepresident of the ”Ensemble Wiener
Collage” – Vienna

Awards
1979 Second Prize at the competition of Langolen
(Wales) for choir music

1983 Third Prize at the competition in Triest for new symphonic music
2001 Composition prize at the “Wiener Saxophon Tage” (Viennese Saxophone Days) Vienna

 
Performances (Cities)
 Vienna, Sofia, Graz, Lissabon, Moscow, Halle, Cologne, Oslo, Budapest, Michaelstein, Paris, Odessa, Salzburg, Linz, Wels, Pilsen

 
Commissions
Ensemble Wiener Collage, Ensemble Music On Line, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble “Die Reihe”, Koene-Quartett, Duo Canto-Viola d’amore

Paul Hertel was born in 1953 in Vienna. Since 1982, he has lived in Vienna and Zürich as a freelance composer. The major points of his work include his work for numerous theatres in German-speaking countries, as well as his work for international film and TV companies. One of his film scores enabled him to become a member of the ‚Freie Akademie der Künste Rhein-Neckar’. Alongside his theatre, film and TV scores, Paul Hertel dedicates himself to ‘free’ composition – his works in the realm of contemporary “E-Musik” are frequently found in concert programs throughout the world, as well as during important international festivals.
Hartmut Krones(Translation by Dan Albertson)

The work “Elster und Parzival” is published at Sikorski International Publishers, Hamburg

His mentors in Choral conducting were Ferdinand Grossmann, the leading choral specialist in Austria, Hans Gillesberger and Reinhold Schmid.

Activities:
* 1953 - 1958 Vienna Boys Choir, Vienna: band leader
* 1958 - 1969 St. John’s Symphonic Orchestra, Minnesota: musical director
* 1958 - 1969 St. John’s University Male Choir, Minnesota: director
* 1958 - 1969 St. John’s University (University of music theory, voice, choir directing), Minnesota: professor
* 1965 - 1969 Metropolitan Youth Symphonie Orchestra, Minnesota: musical director
* 1969 - 1989 Pueblo Symphonic Orchestra, Symphonic Choir, Symphonic Youth Orchestra, Pueblo/Colorado: musical director, conductor
* 1970 - 1986 Mozart-Festival, Pueblo/Colorado: founder, artistic director
* 1986 - 1996 Chorvereinigung “Jung-Wien”, Vienna: artistic director
* 1989 - 1999 Konservatorium Wien Private University, Vienna: director
* 1990 - 2003 Wiener Männergesang-Verein, Vienna: artistic director
* since 2001 World Choral Festival, Vienna: artistic director
* University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vienna: teacher
* Konservatorium Wien Private University, Vienna: teacher
* Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra: guest performances (conductor)
* Vienna Chamber Orchestra: guest performances (conductor)
* Europe, Asia, America, Australia: guest performances
* Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra RSO, Vienna: guest performances (conductor)
* University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo/Colorado: “Thatcher” professor
Awards:
* 2002 City of Vienna: Decoration of Honour in Gold
* since 2005 Wiener Männergesang-Verein: honorary choir director

… nothing has to be said about Track’s international reputation at the conductor’s rostrum. His many years in the USA as “Austria’s musical ambassador”, his numerous albums are proof enough - of his both effective and subtle way of conducting when performing the great compositions of all musical eras, as well as his acclaimed composing activities.
Fidelio (Gerhard Rosenthaler)

Joseph Horovitz was born in Vienna in 1926 and emigrated to England in 1938. He studied music at New College, Oxford, while acting as an official lecturer in music appreciation to the Forces and giving piano recitals in army camps. After taking his BMus and MA degrees, he studied composition with Gordon Jacob at the Royal College of Music, where he won the Farrar Prize, and for a further year with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

His first post was as music director of the Bristol Old Vic, where he composed, arranged and conducted the incidental music for two seasons. The Festival of Britain in 1951 brought him to London as conductor of ballet and concerts at the Festival Amphitheatre. He then held positions as conductor to the Ballet Russes, associate director of the Intimate Opera Company, on the music staff at Glyndebourne, and as guest composer at the Tanglewood Festival, USA. He toured extensively in Great Britain and abroad, conducting major London orchestras as well as on the BBC.

In 1959 he won the Commonwealth Medal for Composition and in 1961 a Leverhulme Research Award to work with Philomusica. He has also won two Ivor Novello Awards. Since 1961 he has taught composition and analysis at the Royal College of Music, where he is now a Fellow.From 1969-96 he was an Executive Council Member of the Performing Right Society, and President of CISAC’s International Council of Composers and Authors of Music from 1981-89. In 1996 he was awarded the Gold Order of Merit of the City of Vienna, and in 2002 the Nino Rota Prize, Italy. In 2007 he received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art First Class.

His compositions number sixteen ballets, nine concertos, two one-act operas inlcuding ‘Gentlemen’s Island’, orchestral works - including Fantasia on a Theme of Couperin (1962) and Sinfonietta for Light Orchestra (1971). He has also written several works for brass band - including the Euphonium Concerto (1972) and Concertino Classico (1985) - and also for wind band.

His chamber music includes five string quartets and the often performed Sonatina (1981) for clarinet and piano and the Music Hall Suite (1964). His best-known choral compositions are Horrortorio (1959), a Hoffnung commission, the award-winning Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo (1970), and Summer Sunday (1975), an ecological cantata and an oratoria ‘Samson’.

His activities have extended over a wide range of music, from Son et Lumière productions in England and overseas to scores for theatre, radio, and over seventy TV plays and series.

Francis Burt, born in London, 28 April 1926; resident in Vienna (Austria) since 1956 Education
1943 St. Edward’s School Oxford: Higher School Certificate (physics, chemistry, mathematics)
1944-1948 army service, including short army course in engineering at the University of Cambridge (1944-1945)
1946/1947 16 months as first lieutenant in Nigeria (Aba, Kaduna, Lagos)
1948-1951 Royal Academy of Music London: composition (Howard Ferguson)
1949-1951 annual Summer School of Music Bryanston resp. Dartington
1951-1954 Hochschule für Musik Berlin: composition (Boris Blacher)
1953 International summer courses for new music Darmstadt
Professional Activity
1973 appointed professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Vienna; 1992 emeritus
1987 as vice-president of the ISCM (Austrian section) organised the first “Lange Nacht der neuen Klänge” in the Konzerthaus, Vienna
1989-1991 Director of the Institute for Electroacoustic Music at the Hochschule für Musik, Vienna
Awards
1954 Mendelssohn Scholarship (Royal Academy / Royal College of Music)
1956 Fellowship of the Fondation Européenne de la Culture
1957 Associate of the Royal Academy of Music
1973 Theodor Körner Prize
1978 Würdigungspreis für Musik Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and Art
1981 City of Vienna Prize for Music
1992 Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich
1994 Honorary membership of the Society for Electroacoustic Music (GEM)

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