Out now! fixe Idee (Carbon/Feeding Tube),  Rubenis / Tikas / Manner / Arn - An Anthology of Contemporary Solo Guitar (Creative Class War/Hillotehdas),  In Trialogue with Luisa Muhr & Maria Grand, Jandek Vienna Wednesday (Corwood), Alle Formen Trio (Small Forms), Kost Nix w/ Eyal Maoz (Feeding Tube), Misuse (Ramble Recs), Primordial Undermind An Imaginal Abydos (SOB/DWA)

Violinist, teacher and festival director
www.sofiethorsbrodan.com
www.blackpageorchestra.org
www.curiouschamberplayers.com
www.danishnewmusicacademy.org

Márcio Steuernagel (1982) is a Brazilian composer, conductor and artistic researcher. 

Holding a Master in Music and a Bachelor degree by the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR, Brazil), and a double-major in conducting and composition by the School of Music and Fine Arts of the State University of Paraná (EMBAP/UNESPAR, Brazil), Steuernagel is main conductor of the Orquestra Filarmônica da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Professor for conducting and composition at the School of Music and Fine Artes of the State University of Paraná, conductor of the Ensemble Móbile, and founding member of the Ensemble entreCompositores, with whom he directed the Music Today Biennale (2011 – 2017). Recipient of prizes such as the Michel Debost National Prize (2005), Funarte Prize (2007) and the Funarte Classical Composition Prize (2010), his compositions have been performed by groups such as the Platypus Ensemble (Vienna) and orchestras such as Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná, Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba, Orquestra Filarmônica da Universidade Federal do Paraná and Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná. He has conducted orchestras such as Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná (where he was assistant conductor from 2011 to 2013), Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais, Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro, Çukurova Devlet Senfoni Orkestrasi (Turkey), and Orquestra de Câmara da Cidade de Curitiba. Ahead of orchestras as well as ensembles in Brazil and Europe, Steuernagel has directed many premières, including the Brazilian première of György Ligeti's "Ramifications" (2015), and the American première of Salvatore Sciarrino’s "L’ideale lucente e le pagine rebate" (2017). He currently lives in Graz, Austria, as a Doctoral Candidate at the Doctoral School for Artistic Research of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, researching "Imperfection in music as a fundamental compositional and performative dimension", under the orientation of Dr. Andreas Dorschel and Germán Toro-Pérez.

www.hannesdufek.com // hannes_dufek@gmx.net

I am a Vienna-based composer, improviser and musician. Mostly contemporary / new music, with an emphasis on socials space(s) and agencies emerging from artistic practice. Maybe consequently, I am also very interested in making music and sound for theatre and/or theatrical pieces, or other ways of working with music and sound beyond the finite space of concert practice.  

www.hannesdufek.com

Freelance composer, sound artist, improviser and musician * Dad of two (2020, 2023) * Co-founder and long-time chairman of Ensemble Platypus (2006-2019) * Member of makemake produktionen (2011-2017) * As of 2019 holder of a doctoral degree (Dr.artium)* Educator at MDW / Vienna (2023)

Some scores are available at Verlag Neue Musik and via babelscores
http://www.verlag-neue-musik.de 
https://www.babelscores.com/HannesDufek

Other links you might be interested in:
www.platypus.or.at
www.makemake.at

VIERHALBIERT is an Austrian based ensemble exploring and pushing the boarders between baroque and contemporary music. 
                                    
Members: 
Claudia Norz, baroque violin                                    
Anna Tausch, baroque cello                     
Sofie Thorsbro Dan, violin          
Barbara Riccabona, cello

WATCH our TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnwqYgCE-E8
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www.vimeo.com/vierhalbiert
www.twitter.com/vierhalbiert
www.facebook.com/vierhalbiert

link to spotify below (for better recordings)

MULTICELLIST 
Exceptional. Cello. Sounds

"Outstanding cantabile...new dimensions of intensity. Marvellous!" 
WIENER ZEITUNG

"Exceptional and beautiful"
SOUND WORD SIGHT MAGAZINE, NY

Ana Topalovic is a special artist: Through her expanded, synaesthetic sensory perception, music opens up to her not only in the dimension of sound but also in visual impressions and thus literally gains color and shape. This rare gift enables Ana Topalovic to discover hidden relationships in music - within the composition itself but also between ostensibly very different works. In this way, highly interesting concert programs with surprising combinations of old and new are created.
For Ana Topalovic it is also a matter of course not to understand music in isolation, but to relate it to other art movements: Whether dance, drama or the visual arts - Ana Topalovic builds bridges between genres. Her particular preference for extraordinary performance techniques comes into play here.

MULTICELLO
When one cello sounds as a whole orchestra.
Using extended techniques on cello and latest audio equipment, Ana layers her live performance to an immersive sound world. Her groundbreaking explorations on cello are at once modern and timeless. She creates landscapes of sounds which are ethereally gorgeous, sometimes weird and serene, but always honest and direct.

Highly awarded for her solo performances, Ana premiered her works in Carnegie Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Gasteig in Munich. With this latest project, by creating a suite of multi-dimensional, otherworldly pieces, Ana has refreshed the language of cello music.

Composer, Computer Musician, Sound Artist

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