COMPOSERS’ CLUB

Each instalment consists of a preparatory seminar for Akademie students, which is focused on a closer look at scores and aspects of the music, and a live talk with the composer that is open to the public.


On January 21, Stephan Winkler, Professor of Theory and Composition, welcomes Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, whose trumpet concerto …miramondo multiplo… will be heard as part of the concert with the Boulez Ensemble the same evening.


Olga Neuwirth was born in Graz in 1968 and studied in Vienna, San Francisco, and Paris. Her teachers included Adriana Hölszky, Tristan Murail, and Luigi Nono. One of the most successful composers of her generation, she has always explored multiple aesthetics in her work, including from film, literature, visual arts, natural science, and everyday culture. Commissions by institutions such as the Vienna State Opera, the Lucerne Festival, and the London Symphony Orchestra stand alongside projects with the experimental jazz and improv scene.

Milestones in an impressive oeuvre spanning many genres are solo concertos for piano, bassoon, trumpet, and viola, orchestral works, music for films, as well as pieces for large-scale music theater, including most recently Monster’s Paradise to a text by Elfride Jelinek, which will have its world premiere in Hamburg this February. Olga Neuwirth has been honored with many awards, among them the Grand Austrian State Prize and the Siemens Music Prize.