Composers

Tamara Friebel

Tamara is a composer and artist educated in composition, electroacoustic composition at the University for Music and Dramatic Arts and in architecture at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, with a background in sociology, psychoanalytic theory and theology from universities in Melbourne. She works as a composer and performer, exhibits in installation art and researches concepts, the processual evolution of form, between the disciplines of architecture and composition. Tamara is currently living and working in Vienna and Graz. Recent commissions and projects with Jeunesse, Platypus Ensemble, SNIM, Klingekunst, Elektronischer Frühling, Alte Schmiede, Brut Künstlerhaus, V’elak Gala, Moë, Szene Salzburg, ArgeKultur, Ensemble Reconsil, Kranich Museum, The Arches Glasgow.
www.tamarafriebel.com

Clemens Gadenstätter

Born 1966, studied transverse flute with Wolfgang Schulz and composition with Erich Urbanner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduated with excellence.
1992-95: finished his studies in composition with Helmut Lachenmann at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule.
Current positions: Professor for music theory and "privatdozent" for composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz and lecturer (PD) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Austrian composer of chamber, ensemble and orchestra works, intermedia artist.
Awards: Among his awards are the Publicity-Preis of the SKE-Fond (1997), the Förderungspreis from the city of Vienna (1997), the Erste Preis (2003) and the DAAD "scolarship berlin artist residence" 2006.
Since 2007 he is co-editor of "musiktheorien der gegenwart", published by Pfau/Saarbrücken. He has written essays that have appeared in numerous publications.
www.gadenstaetter.info

Elisabeth Harnik

Elisabeth Harnik, free-lance composer and pianist, was born 1970 in Graz and currently lives in Gams (County of Styria / Austria). She studied classical piano and later – with Beat Furrer – composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. She started her artistic career both as interpreter of her own works as well as pianist in various areas of improvised music.
Her compositions have been performed regularly at concerts and festivals for contemporary music and she has worked with renowned artists and ensembles such as Ensemble Zeitfluss Graz, Ensemble Reconsil Vienna, Klangforum Vienna, Ensemble Phace Vienna, Thürmchen Ensemble Cologne, Cantus Ensemble Zagreb, Ensemble mise-en New York, Haydn-Trio-Eisenstadt, Trio AMOS Vienna, Trio EIS Vienna, Fidelio Trio London and various national and international soloists.
She received a great number of rewards and prizes, most recently she was Artist in Residence at the OMI International Arts Center New York 2010.
In addition to her work as composer she appears as improviser at various national and international festivals.
www.elisabeth-harnik.at

Sonja Huber

Born 1980 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria
1998 – 2006 Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna:
Composition (M. Jarrell, D. Müller-Siemens), 2004: diploma with distinction
Music theory (D. Torkewitz), 2006: diploma with distinction
Piano (J. Vintschger, St. Möller), 2006: diploma
Doctoral thesis: since 2005, about "Piano concertos on the step to the 21st century"
May 2011: viva voce with distinction
Composition: Masterclasses e.g. with Helmut Lachenmann and Hanspeter Kyburz
Several prizes and distinctions
Performances in Europe and the USA, in Austria e.g. in the Wiener Konzerthaus and Musikverein
Since 2005: collaborator of the Universal Edition
Since 2008: teaching post at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
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Katharina Klement

Born 1963 in Graz, Austria.
Studies in piano, composition, course in experimental and electro-acoustic music at the Vienna Music University, private studies in dance improvisation and sculpture.
"Composer-performer" in the field of notated and improvised, instrumental and electronic music, crossover projects in the areas music-text-video-performance, several works for mechanical and electronically customised piano, sound installations, founder and member of ensembles for improvised music.
Concerts in Austria and abroad (including Festival Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg, Tage für Neue Musik Zürich, Festival Inventionen Berlin, Donaufestival Krems, Festival wien modern, artoteca Milano, "roulette" New York).
Founded own CD label KalK, several publications. Several scholarships, awards, prizes, recently federal scholarship for composition 2011.
Teaches electroacoustic music, composition and improvisation at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Lives in Vienna.
www.katharinaklement.com

Peter Lackner

Born 1966 in Graz, Austria.
Piano lessons with Margarete Klivinyi at Landeskonservatorium Graz.
1988 – 1994 Studying composition with Hermann Markus Preßl
1991 Music Promotion Award of the City of Graz
1994 Music Promotion Award of the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts
Since 1994 teaching music theory and aural traing at University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

Performances:
Mürztaler Werkstatt/steirischer herbst • Internationale Neuberger Kulturtage •
„Wagner høst“ Tønsberg/N • International Week Graz • Osterfestival Innsbruck •
Exchange 97/Radio Bremen/D • European Flute Festival Frankfurt a. M./D •
Austrian Contemporary Music Festival Iowa/USA • 11th International Festival Riga/LV • musikprotokoll/steirischer herbst • Jeunesse Wien •
dissonart Thessaloniki/GR • Wien Modern • Lisinski Zagreb/HR •
Alpenglow-London/GB a.o.

mica database: Peter Lackner

Clemens Nachtmann

Clemens Nachtmann was born 1965 in Neustadt/Waldnaab (Germany). He studied political science in Munich and Berlin with Johannes Agnoli, composition and musical theory in Munich and Berlin with Wilhelm Killmayer, Friedrich Goldmann, Gösta Neuwirth and Hartmut Fladt. In 2004 he moved to Graz, where he made additional studies in composition with Prof. Beat Furrer. In 2005 he became a teacher for auditive education and musical theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
For his compositions Nachtmann was awarded several prices, for example the "Boris-Blacher-Preis" for composition 2004, the Gustav-Mahler-Kompositionspreis of the city of Klagenfurt 2008, a scholarship for the Artist's residence at Eckernförde in 2010. Nachtmann is working on the musical theatre "Das Buch von allen Dingen" after a novel by Guus Kuijer (Libretto: Manfred Weiß), for which he gets a scholarship from the Ernst-von-Siemens-Foundation.
Amongst other places his music has been performed at the Berlin festivals "Unerhörte Musik", "Ultraschall" and "MaerzMusik", WDR Köln, IMPULS ensemble academy Graz, "música viva" Portugal 2008 and "Wien Modern".
www.clemensnachtmann.mur.at

Dimitri Papageorgiou

Dimitri Papageorgiou studied composition and music theory with H.M. Pressl and A. Dobrowoslki at the University of Music and Drama at Graz. In 1998, he received the Presidential Fellowship of the University of Iowa and moved to the US for doctoral studies in composition with D.M. Jenni, J.D. Roberts, and D. Gompper. Since 2007, he is appointed as assistant professor of composition at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotles University of Thessaloniki. Papageorgiou is one of the founding members of the dissonArt ensemble, a new music ensemble based in Thessaloniki.
http://www.reverbnation.com/dimitripapageorgiou

Eva Reiter

Born in Vienna, Eva Reiter studied recorder and viola da gamba at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Diploma with Honors. Continuation of both studies at the Sweelinck-Conservatory in Amsterdam. Both master's degrees "cum laude".
Currently very active giving concerts as a soloist as well as performing with different baroque orchestras (De Nederlandse Bachvereeniging, amongst others), with Unidas, Ensemble Mikado, Le Badinage, and with Ensembles for contemporary music (Ictus, Klangforum Wien, Trio Elastic3, Duo Band and others). She was awarded the "Publicity Preis" of the SKE and the Förderungspreis of the City of Vienna in 2008, the "Queen Marie José International Composition Prize" 2008, as well as other prizes. Eva Reiter's compositions were performed at international festivals such as Transit/Leuven, Ars Musica/Brussels, ISCM World New Music Festival 2006/Stuttgart, Musikprotokoll Graz, Generator and Wien Modern at the Wiener Konzerthaus. She regulary performs at renowned festivals for early and contemporary music.
www.evareiter.com

Mattias Sköld

Mattias Sköld is a Swedish composer and a composition lecturer at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He studied at the Gotland’s School of Composition and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he also awarded a postgraduate Diploma in Music Composition. He writes everything from choral and orchestral music to solo pieces and electroacoustic music. He is also an avid performer of live electronic music and is affiliated with various contemporary art societies in Sweden, such as Fylkingen and ISCM.
www.mattiasskold.com

Alexander Stankovski

Alexander Stankovski was born 1968 in Munich and has been living in Vienna since 1974. He studied composition at the Vienna Music Academy with Francis Burt and in Frankfurt with Hans Zender.
He has received commissions from renowned Austrian institutions and ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, the ensemble „die Reihe“, Austrian Radio and the Vienna Konzerthausgesellschaft. His works have been performed at international festivals including Wien Modern, Frankfurt Feste, Musikbiennale Berlin, Schönberg Festival Duisburg, Moscow Autumn Festival or Musica Nova Sofia.
From 1996 bis 2004 Stankovski taught as an assistent in the composition class of Michael Jarrell at the University of Music in Vienna. Since 1998 he has been working as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.
Ensemble Wiener Collage / Alexander Stankowski

Orestis Toufektsis

Born in Tashkent in 1966. Between 1985 and 1993 he studied music theory (Harmony, Counterpoint, and Instrumentation) and piano at the Contemporary Conservatory of Thessaloniki. At the same time, he completed his studies in Surveying Ingineering, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki. In 1993 he began his composition studies with H.M.Pressl and later G. Kuehr at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts of Graz (Austria), from which he graduated with honors in 1999. In 1995 he was granted the Composition award of the City of Klagenfurt (Austria), in 1997 the 3rd and 1999 the 1st and 2nd Composition award of the Austrian Music Academy. He is member of the Composer Society "die andere saite" since 1995 and founding member of the contemporary and experimental music ensemble ART-resonanz. His works (including works for large orchestra, choir, chamber music and electronic music) have been performed in many European cities (Wien, Graz, Bremen, Zagreb, Thessaloniki, Athen and elsewhere) and broadcast by the Austrian and German radio.
Since October 1999, he has taught Harmony and Music Theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
The Living Composers Project / Orestis Toufektsis

Bart Vanhecke

Bart Vanhecke (1964) studied composition with André Laporte at the Royal Music Conservatory in Brussels and with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy). Since 2009 he is researching the systematisation of atonality and dissonance in amotivic serial composition at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent (Belgium) and the University of Leuven (Belgium). In 2010 he received a doctoral research grant from the University of Leuven and he became a doctoral researcher at the ORCiM (Ghent, Belgium). Works by Bart Vanhecke have been performed at festivals including Ars Musica, the ISCM World Music Days and the Transit Festival, by ensembles and soloists such as the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Phœnix Basel, the Belgian National Orchestra, Het Collectief, Walpurgis, the Spectra Ensemble, Ictus, Jan Michiels, the Danel Quartet and many others.
MUSMA / Bart Vanhecke

Djuro Zivkovic

Djuro Zivkovic (1975) comes from a non-musical family, however his parents inspired in him a love for art. His early interest in folklore and Byzantine music has led him to develop a variety of compositional techniques such as polyrhythmic, improvisation, special harmony-based scales, microtones, layer-polyphony (multiphony) and heterophony. His interest in the harmonic organization (after the year 2002) has resulted in a new approach to his composition process. Živković finds importance in the so-called harmonic field, the way that chords exist in coherence or in symbiosis with themselves, thus creating the harmonic path. His music is commissioned, performed, recorded and broadcast across Europe, Japan and North America, by leading soloists and ensembles. His music holds the Swedish Grammy Award 2010 with Sonanza for the piece Le Cimetière Marin. He is also active as a teacher in composition and performance.
www.zivkovic.eu