"The ghost of electricity howls through the bones of her face." (Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna, 1964) Energy flows around our omnipresent power sources and electrical apparatus, there is an electromagnetic aura, which will be traced live in Phantom Voltage. That spirit of …

It is one of the earliest and most impressive works of minimal music: In C by Terry Riley, first performed to an audience of about one hundred by an ensemble including Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Morton Subotnick at …

"As an artist, I think I have a responsibility to absorb the complexity of our time and reflect it in my work. To be able to handle ambiguities and uncertainties constructively, I find it important to recognise and to endure contradictions – this …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

According to the current forecasts by GeoSphere Austria and other weather services, it is dry enough on Tuesday afternoon, and the performance will take place without restrictions and as planned starting at 4:15 pm at Graben/Pestsäule. Olga Neuwirth revives an anarchic action of the young …

The Junge Musik Project is a collaboration between the International Society for New Music (IGNM) and the music schools of the city of Vienna. The aim of the concerts, workshops and lectures is to bring young people and their teachers closer to contemporary …

No other quartet can match this group's marriage of four parts, with its specific blend of finely wrought precision and passionate expressivity. The succession of tempi and moods, the tactile textures, the play of colours in the alternation of darkness and radiant light …

Elisabeth Harnik and Richard Barrett first appeared together on stage in 2009 at the comprovise festival in Cologne, both as improvisers and composers. Shortly thereafter, Harnik met the Serbian harpist Milana Zarić through Barrett. Zarić and Barrett have been performing regularly as a …

The young pianist Anton Gerzenberg – coming right back to the Wiener Konzerthaus after his season as a Great Talent – presents, among other things on this extraordinary piano evening, the first complete performance of Marco Stroppa's Traiettoria at Wien Modern. The Paris-based …

Full of colour, loud and with anarchic joy, musicians from the Berlin ensemble MAM and singer Anna Clare Hauf parade through the Karlsplatz opera passage. For two days, they break through the busy everyday life beneath the city and invite you to open …

Fanfare allez ensemble guides us from the outer edges of the Vienna Stadtpark into a collective ritual experience carried by a polychromy of music and light-based art. The communal walking of performers and audience leads to transformation and catharsis, which opens up unexpected …

The mumok presents the first comprehensive, European solo exhibition of the New York-based artist Adam Pendleton. Pendleton develops his painting in the form of a continuous index that registers, transposes and overwrites gestures. In the exhibition on Level 0, students from the Music …

In the piece Estos Patos Locos, the nine-member klingt.collective thinks about production spaces of contemporary experimental music by means of a video produced collectively at exactly those locations. The members of the ensemble show their individual (private) recording or rehearsal spaces. They each …

sch:cht [ʃɪçt] aims to be a platform for musical discoveries outside the mainstream, creating space for transformative encounters between classical music and club culture since spring 2022. In its first year of existence, the event series already made an impact as a low-threshold, …

"A marking listening experience certainly took place in the beautiful baroque monastery church of Mariastein in the canton of Solothurn; the Gregorian chants of the monks there are still in my ears today. Only much later did I realize that voices need spaces. …

The complete organ works of György Ligeti, a world premiere by Julia Purgina and another by Bernhard Lang – for this night of solo organ of the category "breathtaking" on the birthday of IGNM, Wolfgang Kogert gets reinforcement from the composer, organist and …

The breath of the world: Mark Andre’s spiritual magnum opus rwh 1–4 is being performed for the first time in Austria at Wien Modern – at the composer’s request at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. Almost on the threshold of hearing, in a …

We strike the bells softly and so subtly break the habit of how a peal should sound. We softly pack the clappers of the bells. No longer does iron meet alloy. A soft clapper elicits different music from the bell than a hard …

We strike the bells softly and so subtly break the habit of how a peal should sound. We softly pack the clappers of the bells. No longer does iron meet alloy. A soft clapper elicits different music from the bell than a hard …

The echoraum invites the label Inexhaustible Editions to a portrait with an exhibition including a vernissage concert (→ 01.12.2023 19:00-23:00), a 90-minute listening room with the label’s founder, curator and producer László Juhász (→ 02.12.2023 17:00) and a finissage concert (→ 19.12.2023 19:00). …

The FAZ wrote that his performance of the "new Magna Charta of piano playing" was "titanic", and that Pierre-Laurent Aimard had mastered "the impossible" in György Ligeti's Etudes – that’s just one example of the brilliant reviews this perfectionist of the piano has …

After last year's successful trial run, Wien Modern's highly danceable closing party can be considered a tradition – in Vienna, it can happen that fast. Disclaimer: With press representative Kathi Wiesler a.k.a. Adriana Celentana and production assistant Clemens Rott a.k.a. DJ Armonia, there …

In a kind of 3D video game, alto Noa Frenkel makes her way through an all-encompassing audiovisual flood of data to recreate milestones in media history as perfectly as possible. What is real, what is a copy, what is documentary, and what is …

Text and music in Break Eden – the ambiguous title is intentional – deal with the creation of Eden viewed from the present, which entails both breaking and joining together. The voice, with its finest nuances of sound and expression, finds itself in …

The Arditti Quartet will perform, among other things, spatial pieces by Isabel Mundry and Robert HP Platz, as well as Mark Andre's large cycle of miniatures iv 13. "iv is a cycle of chamber music pieces that address the problem of introvertedness. Three …

For its evening with works from the Renaissance to Isabel Mundry, Rebecca Saunders and a world premiere by Gerald Resch, the vocal ensemble Cantando Admont gets reinforcement from Ensemble PHACE for the first time, at the Reaktor. …

What we see or don’t see, who is seen or isn’t is a social-cultural phenomenon: perspective influences belonging, inclusion or exclusion. Isabel Mundry traces the invisible with a composed spatial constellation that moves in itself. This large new production in the Reaktor at …

As a sort of prominent opener before London's Arditti Quartet (→ 23.11.2023 20:00), Brussels' Ictus Ensemble makes Joanna Bailie's space-sound memory of what it was like to live as a child in 1979 imaginable, with eight instruments scattered around the room and video. …

"Music with a very colourful step and mode of expression [...], free and mobile, with a sometimes completely unpredictable course," wrote South Korean composer Unsuk Chin in her Double Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Ensemble. Conlon Nancarrow's Piece No. 2 is called reminiscent …

With his movingly atmospheric buildings such as the Therme Vals, the Kolumba Art Museum in Cologne, the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Feldkapelle Bruder Klaus, Peter Zumthor, who was born in Basel in 1943, occupies a unique position in architecture. Atmosphere is also the …

Yes refers to the soliloquy of Molly Bloom, the last chapter in James Joyce's Ulysses. [...] The repetitive "Yes" is ambiguous and complex, it casts many shadows and refers to different themes: to the moment of orgasm while half asleep; to the life-affirming …

Irvine Arditti plays a solo recital for Peter Zumthor five days before his quartet recital. Primordial, strongly atmospheric, a bit rough, direct and noisy – this is how Peter Zumthor likes his violin soli. Alongside Rebecca Saunders, the architect Iannis Xenakis and the …

Composing means to think through the simultaneity of the dimensions of time. It can be compared to a multidimensional process. Every sequence of notes, every colour, sketch, pulse, rhythmic mode, every extra- and intra-musical idea has its own time. [...] In order to …

In the classical concert setting, An Evening with asks for an intimacy that is as foreign as it is familiar. Melodies and lyrics create a continuously changing mood and playful atmosphere in the space, while the ritual of song still resonates, mourns, calls …

With two trios and a double trio at the finale, the Society for Sound Art, Free Improvisation and Experimental Music Austria (SFIEMA for short) once again invites you to the smallest venue of the Wien Modern Festival – the Art Lounge in the …

Peter Conradin Zumthor titles his spectacular composition for piano player and piano tuner Things are going down. The piano player fans out well-tempered octaves by striking the keys quickly and repetitively. The piano tuner now begins to gradually tune the instrument down. The …

Spread across the room in different setups for a change, the punk band among Vienna's new music ensembles invites you back to the Musikverein's underground. With new pieces by Nava Hemyari and Christian Schröder, with highly virtuosic special effects by Michael Beil and …

The IGNM will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2022-2023. What constitutes the musical present, its current tendencies and the future to which they point, is of course less certain today than ever before. Our present, characterized by global crises, crumbling orders and the …

The Mivos Quartet, founded in New York in 2008, expands horizons – with string quartets by George Lewis, who teaches at Columbia University in New York City (book presentation → 12.11.2023 18:00), Andile Khumalo, who teaches in Johannesburg, Raven Chacon, who teaches at …

Composing While Black opens unique new perspectives on contemporary Afro-diasporic composers who were or are active between 1960 and the present, a period that has been largely ignored by research, concert programming, and journalistic accounts, especially in Europe. This interdisciplinary collection of essays …

The IGNM celebrates its 100th birthday – with Ligeti, Lang & Purgina in an extreme organ recital (→ 07.11.2023 19:30), with an international symposium (→ 08.11.2023 14:00-17:00), and with the NAMES Ensemble from Salzburg, which has just been awarded the Ensemble Prize of …

The musical marble run is an analog improvisation machine. Different types of spheres roll on an inclined plane and bump into metal objects. Unlike most other marble runs, where the marbles must complete a perfect path to reach their destination, here, it is …

An evening of flowing international exchange between Graz, Ljubljana, Vienna and Berlin (at the least): The quartet between feathers and the trio Tempestoso together present an exciting program with six pieces from the last two years. …

Two works by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, some Icelandic serenity courtesy of Anna Thorvaldsdottir, a surreal Ukrainian sound painting by Dmytro Kyryliv, and two world premieres by young composers from Austria – six percussionists and various chamber music …

Hermann Markus Preßl, born 1939 in Altaussee, died 1994 in Greece, is both one of the most idiosyncratic composers of his time and one of the great unknowns in Austrian music and culture. He taught in Bad Aussee, Kabul and Graz (Klaus Lang …

The Kandinsky Quartet was founded in Vienna in 2020 and holds a scholarship of Jeunesse Musicale Germany and Villa Musica. The four study with Johannes Meissl at the mdw and have begun their masters program with Quatuor Ébène at HMTM Munich in the …

Since 2006, the Polish ensemble Małe Instrumenty (Polish for „small instruments“) has been using a growing number of unusual musical instruments – toys, collectibles, curiosities and rarities, as well as numerous self-developed and self-built sound-making things. In recent years, Małe Instrumenty realized several …

Different Lines is a project by Paweł Romańczuk / Małe Instrumenty addressed to blind, deaf and hard-of-hearing people that invites them to become an active part of it. Scores on which participants draw graphic line structures will be created in a participatory workshop. …

The collaboration of blind and deaf people with musicians requires the development of special forms of communication for a creative exchange. Eight prototype instruments developed by a group of blind and visually impaired people together with the collective Małe Instrumenty will be exhibited …

Christof Ressi, the winner of the Erste Bank Composition Prize 2022, born in Villach in 1989, smuggles video games and Internet culture into the classical concert setting. The Black Page Orchestra plays his new pieces, he himself performs live on stage in the …

The music of Polwechsel cannot be explained, let alone "explained away." The final works possess enormous complexity, from their multidisciplinary beginnings to their final realisations. We enter them as composite constructs, as multiple environments; their subtle and complex instabilities invite and reward revisitation. …

The accordion virtuoso Bogdan Laketic, born in 1994 in Subotica (Serbia), has collaborated with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Isabel Mundry, and Wolfgang Liebhart. In his solo program at Wien Modern, in addition to two 20th century classics, he presents premieres of works …

The most danceable form of concert is the party. This year at Wien Modern, it starts on November 4th at Club U on Karlsplatz, and it's "trashy instead of très chic": Graz-born Titus Probst has landed in the after-show program, so to speak, …

Owing to the great success in 2022, Peter Jakober has decided to completely rewrite Seitenraum (Side Space), his piece for eighteen strings in three connected spaces commissioned by Wien Modern – this time as a veritable Saitenraum II (String Space) for 26 violins, …

Fifty (yes, fifty) pianos arranged all around the hall, all tuned one hundredth of a tone apart, and a chamber orchestra – Georg Friedrich Haas takes this totally utopian basic set-up to achieve astonishing levels of intensity that tap into new dimensions even …

“Knock knock / Who’s there? / It’s your grief from the past / Not possible / For all time sake / Cause / Grief is like a rock / In your head / It’s hard, it’s rough / It’s just always there / It’s salty / I can taste it on the drop / Rolling down my nose / Grief is like a rock …” As the title suggests, …

The mumok presents the first comprehensive, European solo exhibition of the New York-based artist Adam Pendleton. Pendleton develops his painting in the form of a continuous index that registers, transposes and overwrites gestures. In the exhibition on Level 0, students from the Music …

The Junge Musik Project is a collaboration between the International Society for New Music (IGNM) and the music schools of the city of Vienna. The aim of the concerts, workshops and lectures is to bring young people and their teachers closer to contemporary …

It is one of the earliest and most impressive works of minimal music: In C by Terry Riley, first performed to an audience of about one hundred by an ensemble including Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Morton Subotnick at …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

Elisabeth Harnik and Richard Barrett first appeared together on stage in 2009 at the comprovise festival in Cologne, both as improvisers and composers. Shortly thereafter, Harnik met the Serbian harpist Milana Zarić through Barrett. Zarić and Barrett have been performing regularly as a …

In a kind of 3D video game, alto Noa Frenkel makes her way through an all-encompassing audiovisual flood of data to recreate milestones in media history as perfectly as possible. What is real, what is a copy, what is documentary, and what is …

Vermehrt Schönes [multiplying beauty]! This year, the Erste Bank Composition Prize will be awarded for the 35th time, and for the first time to a collective: under the duo name Nimikry, the two Viennese locals Alessandro Baticci and Rafał Zalech can be seen …

"A marking listening experience certainly took place in the beautiful baroque monastery church of Mariastein in the canton of Solothurn; the Gregorian chants of the monks there are still in my ears today. Only much later did I realize that voices need spaces. …

"As an artist, I think I have a responsibility to absorb the complexity of our time and reflect it in my work. To be able to handle ambiguities and uncertainties constructively, I find it important to recognise and to endure contradictions – this …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

In the piece Estos Patos Locos, the nine-member klingt.collective thinks about production spaces of contemporary experimental music by means of a video produced collectively at exactly those locations. The members of the ensemble show their individual (private) recording or rehearsal spaces. They each …

Text and music in Break Eden – the ambiguous title is intentional – deal with the creation of Eden viewed from the present, which entails both breaking and joining together. The voice, with its finest nuances of sound and expression, finds itself in …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

Alice. Eine phantastische Revue (Alice. A fantastic revue) presents characteristic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There for an ensemble of twenty-four instrumentalists, seven soloists and the fabulous company of the Serapions Theater, …

As a sort of prominent opener before London's Arditti Quartet (→ 23.11.2023 20:00), Brussels' Ictus Ensemble makes Joanna Bailie's space-sound memory of what it was like to live as a child in 1979 imaginable, with eight instruments scattered around the room and video. …

We strike the bells softly and so subtly break the habit of how a peal should sound. We softly pack the clappers of the bells. No longer does iron meet alloy. A soft clapper elicits different music from the bell than a hard …

We strike the bells softly and so subtly break the habit of how a peal should sound. We softly pack the clappers of the bells. No longer does iron meet alloy. A soft clapper elicits different music from the bell than a hard …

We strike the bells softly and so subtly break the habit of how a peal should sound. We softly pack the clappers of the bells. No longer does iron meet alloy. A soft clapper elicits different music from the bell than a hard …

We strike the bells softly and so subtly break the habit of how a peal should sound. We softly pack the clappers of the bells. No longer does iron meet alloy. A soft clapper elicits different music from the bell than a hard …

What we see or don’t see, who is seen or isn’t is a social-cultural phenomenon: perspective influences belonging, inclusion or exclusion. Isabel Mundry traces the invisible with a composed spatial constellation that moves in itself. This large new production in the Reaktor at …

For its evening with works from the Renaissance to Isabel Mundry, Rebecca Saunders and a world premiere by Gerald Resch, the vocal ensemble Cantando Admont gets reinforcement from Ensemble PHACE for the first time, at the Reaktor. …

No other quartet can match this group's marriage of four parts, with its specific blend of finely wrought precision and passionate expressivity. The succession of tempi and moods, the tactile textures, the play of colours in the alternation of darkness and radiant light …

Irvine Arditti plays a solo recital for Peter Zumthor five days before his quartet recital. Primordial, strongly atmospheric, a bit rough, direct and noisy – this is how Peter Zumthor likes his violin soli. Alongside Rebecca Saunders, the architect Iannis Xenakis and the …

The mumok presents the first comprehensive, European solo exhibition of the New York-based artist Adam Pendleton. Pendleton develops his painting in the form of a continuous index that registers, transposes and overwrites gestures. In the exhibition on Level 0, students from the Music …

According to the current forecasts by GeoSphere Austria and other weather services, it is dry enough on Tuesday afternoon, and the performance will take place without restrictions and as planned starting at 4:15 pm at Graben/Pestsäule. Olga Neuwirth revives an anarchic action of the young …

Composing means to think through the simultaneity of the dimensions of time. It can be compared to a multidimensional process. Every sequence of notes, every colour, sketch, pulse, rhythmic mode, every extra- and intra-musical idea has its own time. [...] In order to …

On stage there are four "islands" of percussion. [...] There is an idea of multiple spaces, of geographically distant sound sources. This idea is reinforced by the use of electronics. [...] In this way, the audience is literally "in the sound" at certain …

Yes refers to the soliloquy of Molly Bloom, the last chapter in James Joyce's Ulysses. [...] The repetitive "Yes" is ambiguous and complex, it casts many shadows and refers to different themes: to the moment of orgasm while half asleep; to the life-affirming …

In the classical concert setting, An Evening with asks for an intimacy that is as foreign as it is familiar. Melodies and lyrics create a continuously changing mood and playful atmosphere in the space, while the ritual of song still resonates, mourns, calls …

In the classical concert setting, An Evening with asks for an intimacy that is as foreign as it is familiar. Melodies and lyrics create a continuously changing mood and playful atmosphere in the space, while the ritual of song still resonates, mourns, calls …

Peter Conradin Zumthor titles his spectacular composition for piano player and piano tuner Things are going down. The piano player fans out well-tempered octaves by striking the keys quickly and repetitively. The piano tuner now begins to gradually tune the instrument down. The …

They’re small, they’re colorful, they look funny and they go ping, tooot, squeak, frrrrt, ratatat or hoooey! Small musical instruments are the great passion of musician, instrument collector and instrument inventor Paweł Romańczuk. For many years and in many countries, he has gathered …

They’re small, they’re colorful, they look funny and they go ping, tooot, squeak, frrrrt, ratatat or hoooey! Small musical instruments are the great passion of musician, instrument collector and instrument inventor Paweł Romańczuk. For many years and in many countries, he has gathered …

The FAZ wrote that his performance of the "new Magna Charta of piano playing" was "titanic", and that Pierre-Laurent Aimard had mastered "the impossible" in György Ligeti's Etudes – that’s just one example of the brilliant reviews this perfectionist of the piano has …

With his movingly atmospheric buildings such as the Therme Vals, the Kolumba Art Museum in Cologne, the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Feldkapelle Bruder Klaus, Peter Zumthor, who was born in Basel in 1943, occupies a unique position in architecture. Atmosphere is also the …

They’re small, they’re colorful, they look funny and they go ping, tooot, squeak, frrrrt, ratatat or hoooey! Small musical instruments are the great passion of musician, instrument collector and instrument inventor Paweł Romańczuk. For many years and in many countries, he has gathered …

In the classical concert setting, An Evening with asks for an intimacy that is as foreign as it is familiar. Melodies and lyrics create a continuously changing mood and playful atmosphere in the space, while the ritual of song still resonates, mourns, calls …

In the classical concert setting, An Evening with asks for an intimacy that is as foreign as it is familiar. Melodies and lyrics create a continuously changing mood and playful atmosphere in the space, while the ritual of song still resonates, mourns, calls …

In the – complicated – search for music between the genres, Studio Dan has really found something. The two commissioned composers are basically prototypes for a generation of music makers who are able to survey, penetrate and connect the rich heritage of the …

An evening of flowing international exchange between Graz, Ljubljana, Vienna and Berlin (at the least): The quartet between feathers and the trio Tempestoso together present an exciting program with six pieces from the last two years. …

The Kandinsky Quartet was founded in Vienna in 2020 and holds a scholarship of Jeunesse Musicale Germany and Villa Musica. The four study with Johannes Meissl at the mdw and have begun their masters program with Quatuor Ébène at HMTM Munich in the …

They’re small, they’re colorful, they look funny and they go ping, tooot, squeak, frrrrt, ratatat or hoooey! Small musical instruments are the great passion of musician, instrument collector and instrument inventor Paweł Romańczuk. For many years and in many countries, he has gathered …

“Knock knock / Who’s there? / It’s your grief from the past / Not possible / For all time sake / Cause / Grief is like a rock / In your head / It’s hard, it’s rough / It’s just always there / It’s salty / I can taste it on the drop / Rolling down my nose / Grief is like a rock …” As the title suggests, …

“Knock knock / Who’s there? / It’s your grief from the past / Not possible / For all time sake / Cause / Grief is like a rock / In your head / It’s hard, it’s rough / It’s just always there / It’s salty / I can taste it on the drop / Rolling down my nose / Grief is like a rock …” As the title suggests, …

Spread across the room in different setups for a change, the punk band among Vienna's new music ensembles invites you back to the Musikverein's underground. With new pieces by Nava Hemyari and Christian Schröder, with highly virtuosic special effects by Michael Beil and …

The complete organ works of György Ligeti, a world premiere by Julia Purgina and another by Bernhard Lang – for this night of solo organ of the category "breathtaking" on the birthday of IGNM, Wolfgang Kogert gets reinforcement from the composer, organist and …

"The ghost of electricity howls through the bones of her face." (Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna, 1964) Energy flows around our omnipresent power sources and electrical apparatus, there is an electromagnetic aura, which will be traced live in Phantom Voltage. That spirit of …

They’re small, they’re colorful, they look funny and they go ping, tooot, squeak, frrrrt, ratatat or hoooey! Small musical instruments are the great passion of musician, instrument collector and instrument inventor Paweł Romańczuk. For many years and in many countries, he has gathered …

They’re small, they’re colorful, they look funny and they go ping, tooot, squeak, frrrrt, ratatat or hoooey! Small musical instruments are the great passion of musician, instrument collector and instrument inventor Paweł Romańczuk. For many years and in many countries, he has gathered …

"The ghost of electricity howls through the bones of her face." (Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna, 1964) Energy flows around our omnipresent power sources and electrical apparatus, there is an electromagnetic aura, which will be traced live in Phantom Voltage. That spirit of …

The IGNM celebrates its 100th birthday – with Ligeti, Lang & Purgina in an extreme organ recital (→ 07.11.2023 19:30), with an international symposium (→ 08.11.2023 14:00-17:00), and with the NAMES Ensemble from Salzburg, which has just been awarded the Ensemble Prize of …

The IGNM celebrates its 100th birthday – with Ligeti, Lang & Purgina in an extreme organ recital (→ 07.11.2023 19:30), with an international symposium (→ 08.11.2023 14:00-17:00), and with the NAMES Ensemble from Salzburg, which has just been awarded the Ensemble Prize of …

Christof Ressi, the winner of the Erste Bank Composition Prize 2022, born in Villach in 1989, smuggles video games and Internet culture into the classical concert setting. The Black Page Orchestra plays his new pieces, he himself performs live on stage in the …

They’re small, they’re colorful, they look funny and they go ping, tooot, squeak, frrrrt, ratatat or hoooey! Small musical instruments are the great passion of musician, instrument collector and instrument inventor Paweł Romańczuk. For many years and in many countries, he has gathered …

Owing to the great success in 2022, Peter Jakober has decided to completely rewrite Seitenraum (Side Space), his piece for eighteen strings in three connected spaces commissioned by Wien Modern – this time as a veritable Saitenraum II (String Space) for 26 violins, …

The young pianist Anton Gerzenberg – coming right back to the Wiener Konzerthaus after his season as a Great Talent – presents, among other things on this extraordinary piano evening, the first complete performance of Marco Stroppa's Traiettoria at Wien Modern. The Paris-based …

Fifty (yes, fifty) pianos arranged all around the hall, all tuned one hundredth of a tone apart, and a chamber orchestra – Georg Friedrich Haas takes this totally utopian basic set-up to achieve astonishing levels of intensity that tap into new dimensions even …

The breath of the world: Mark Andre’s spiritual magnum opus rwh 1–4 is being performed for the first time in Austria at Wien Modern – at the composer’s request at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. Almost on the threshold of hearing, in a …

The music of Polwechsel cannot be explained, let alone "explained away." The final works possess enormous complexity, from their multidisciplinary beginnings to their final realisations. We enter them as composite constructs, as multiple environments; their subtle and complex instabilities invite and reward revisitation. …

The IGNM will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2022-2023. What constitutes the musical present, its current tendencies and the future to which they point, is of course less certain today than ever before. Our present, characterized by global crises, crumbling orders and the …

Fanfare allez ensemble guides us from the outer edges of the Vienna Stadtpark into a collective ritual experience carried by a polychromy of music and light-based art. The communal walking of performers and audience leads to transformation and catharsis, which opens up unexpected …

The Mivos Quartet, founded in New York in 2008, expands horizons – with string quartets by George Lewis, who teaches at Columbia University in New York City (book presentation → 12.11.2023 18:00), Andile Khumalo, who teaches in Johannesburg, Raven Chacon, who teaches at …

Composing While Black opens unique new perspectives on contemporary Afro-diasporic composers who were or are active between 1960 and the present, a period that has been largely ignored by research, concert programming, and journalistic accounts, especially in Europe. This interdisciplinary collection of essays …

Vermehrt Schönes [multiplying beauty]! This year, the Erste Bank Composition Prize will be awarded for the 35th time, and for the first time to a collective: under the duo name Nimikry, the two Viennese locals Alessandro Baticci and Rafał Zalech can be seen …

After last year's successful trial run, Wien Modern's highly danceable closing party can be considered a tradition – in Vienna, it can happen that fast. Disclaimer: With press representative Kathi Wiesler a.k.a. Adriana Celentana and production assistant Clemens Rott a.k.a. DJ Armonia, there …

The echoraum invites the label Inexhaustible Editions to a portrait with an exhibition including a vernissage concert (→ 01.12.2023 19:00-23:00), a 90-minute listening room with the label’s founder, curator and producer László Juhász (→ 02.12.2023 17:00) and a finissage concert (→ 19.12.2023 19:00). …

Different Lines is a project by Paweł Romańczuk / Małe Instrumenty addressed to blind, deaf and hard-of-hearing people that invites them to become an active part of it. Scores on which participants draw graphic line structures will be created in a participatory workshop. …

They’re small, they’re colorful, they look funny and they go ping, tooot, squeak, frrrrt, ratatat or hoooey! Small musical instruments are the great passion of musician, instrument collector and instrument inventor Paweł Romańczuk. For many years and in many countries, he has gathered …

"Music with a very colourful step and mode of expression [...], free and mobile, with a sometimes completely unpredictable course," wrote South Korean composer Unsuk Chin in her Double Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Ensemble. Conlon Nancarrow's Piece No. 2 is called reminiscent …

"The ghost of electricity howls through the bones of her face." (Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna, 1964) Energy flows around our omnipresent power sources and electrical apparatus, there is an electromagnetic aura, which will be traced live in Phantom Voltage. That spirit of …

With two trios and a double trio at the finale, the Society for Sound Art, Free Improvisation and Experimental Music Austria (SFIEMA for short) once again invites you to the smallest venue of the Wien Modern Festival – the Art Lounge in the …

The IGNM will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2022-2023. What constitutes the musical present, its current tendencies and the future to which they point, is of course less certain today than ever before. Our present, characterized by global crises, crumbling orders and the …

The accordion virtuoso Bogdan Laketic, born in 1994 in Subotica (Serbia), has collaborated with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Isabel Mundry, and Wolfgang Liebhart. In his solo program at Wien Modern, in addition to two 20th century classics, he presents premieres of works …