NADJA KAYALI’S second round as Artistic Director of the IMAGO DEI festival (3/17-4/10/2023) celebrates HK GRUBER and ERNST KOVACIC, while continuing the focal points “Zwischentöne Polen” and “Imago Deae” (among others with five commissioned texts to Austrian authors), and embarks on literary-musical-legal … read more »
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“I even hear the piano electronically” – WOLFGANG SUPPAN
Contemporary composer of instrumental and electronic music, WOLFGANG SUPPAN talked to Sylvia Wendrock about his methods, practice and motivation, while accessing his intuition by avoiding repetition and risking connections. How does one approach such a task, if one, as you say on … read more »
IMAGO DEI FESTIVAL 2022: “IN-BETWEEN WORLDS”
The Krems festival IMAGO DEI 2022 “IN-BETWEEN WORLDS” will take place from March 11 to April 18, with 16 concert evenings at the Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche and three collaborative events in Vienna and St. Pölten. It is the first edition under the … read more »
IMAGO DEI FESTIVAL KICKING OFF IN LATE SPRING 2021
The annual IMAGO DEI festival for contemporary music has been postponed from its traditional time around Easter to June 2021. The edition which had been planned for 2020, now adapted for 2021, is dedicated to the ambivalence of light and darkness under … read more »
Contemporary Music Festivals in Austria
This article is part of the brochure “Contemporary Music in Austria”. The full brochure is available as a free PDF download at the end of this page. “Only what you really love, can be really communicated,” said Markus Hinterhäuser in a mica-interview about the … read more »