2023

— 23 new works

— Music theater: Metamorphosis of a Living Room– project with Toshiki Okada (director) and his compagnie chelfitsch, music by Dai Fujikura, performed at the Wiener Festwochen, the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen and the Holland Festival; Peter Eötvös' opera Der Goldene Drache and Philip Venable's opera Denis & Katya at the Wiener Kammeroper in cooperation with the PPCM Academy (students of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) and the Campus programme of the Musiktheater an der Wien

— Projects: World premiere of Bernhard Lang: A Song for Rachela (in commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising 1943) at the Wiener Konzerthaus; CD project Lucia Dlugoszewski: Abyss and Caress – first comprehensive sound portrait of the re-discovered Polish-American composer; project The Tower of Babel at the Wiener Konzerthaus with current works by composers from countries of the former Soviet Union and a panel discussion with Philipp Blom; concert installation 11.000 Saiten by Georg Friedrich Haas for ensemble and 50 pianos at Wien Modern; Orlac's Hände – music by Johannes Kalitzke for Robert Wiene's eponymous silent film; portrait at the Musikverein Wien and several concerts with works by Chaya Czernowin

— Guest performances/festivals: in Washington (Library of Congress; works by Furrer, Feldman, Xenakis, Lim) and at Harvard University (Fromm Players; works by Enno Poppe and Chaya Czernowin); opening of the Musica Nova Festival Helsinki; concert for the 50th anniversary of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in Berlin; György Ligeti portrait concerts at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival and in Budapest (conductor: Péter Eötvös); Ensemble in Residence at the Music Biennale Zagreb with concerts (premiere of Chaya Czernowin: Seltene Erde: alchimia communicationis) and workshops; Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik; music theater project Metamorphosis of a Living Room at the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen and at the Holland Festival; Prague Spring Festival (Ensemble in Residence) - guest performance with works by György Ligeti, Georg Friedrich Haas and Czech composers; participation in the first DLW Festival in Cologne with the trio Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard; four concerts at the Salzburg Festival with works by Grisey, Vivier, Gubaidulina, Sciarrino and a John Cage film concert; Impuls-Festival Graz; opening concert of the Darmstadt Summer Course with Situations by Georges Aperghis; Warsaw Autumn; music protocol of the Steirischer Herbst Graz; project The Tower of Babel at the Voices Festival Berlin; opening concert of the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik; performances by Rebecca Saunders and the Duo Nimikry at Wien Modern.

— Concert cycle Ursprung im Wiener Konzerthaus (from fall 2023)

— Education projects: workshops with composers from Musikene (Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco) and performance of their works in Donostia-San Sebastián; performances of Peter Eötvös' opera Der goldene Drache and Philip Venable's opera Denis & Katya with students from the PPCM Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz; Collaboration with the NYKY Ensemble of the Sibelius Academy Helsinki and joint performance at the Musica Nova Festival with Helmut Lachenmann's Concertini; ensemble in residence at the Prague Spring Festival with reading sessions and masterclasses; Beat Furrer portrait concert with students of the PPCM study programme in Graz; composition workshops and concert at the Impuls Festival Graz; coaching of the Gustav Mahler Academy Orchestra for the world premiere of the project 11.000 Saiten in Bolzano; performance with students of the Stella Vorarlberg Private University of Music at the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik;

— Laureate of the Erste Bank Composition Prize: Duo Nimikry (Alessandro Baticci and Rafal Zalech)

— CDs: portrait Matthias Kranebitter: Encyclopedia of Pitch and Deviation (Kairos); Javier Quislant: Sinuoso Tiempo (Kairos); Portrait Lucia Dlugoszewski: Abyss and Caress (double CD, col legno); Portrait Sara Glojnarić: Pure Bliss (Kairos)

2022

- 27 new works

- Music theater: Friede auf Erden I: staged Arnold Schönberg project with the Klangforum Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir in the production by Ulla von Brandenburg at the Vienna Festival; Pierrot Lunaire: staged performance of Arnold Schönberg's work with Sofia Jernberg (director: Marlene Monteiro Freitas) at the Herrenhausen Art Festival in Hanover and in Paris; Kraanerg: staged production of Iannis Xenakis' ballet Kraanerg (choreography: Emmanuelle Huynh); Ich geh unter lauter Schatten: Music theater with works by Gérard Grisey, Claude Vivier, Iannis Xenakis and Giacinto Scelsi (director: Elisabeth Stöppler) at the Ruhrtriennale in Bochum; Das Lied von der Erde: staged performance of Gustav Mahler's work directed and staged by Philippe Quesne at the Opéra de Dijon and at the Festival d'Automne in Paris; AMOPERA - a dystopic ballad: music theater production together with the Needcompany and Jan Lauwers - world premiere at the Festspielhaus Erl

- Projects: Symposion - Ein Rausch with works by Gustav Mahler, Matthias Krüger, Enno Poppe, Morton Feldman, Terry Riley, Clara Iannotta, Mirela Ivičević and Tristan Murail at the 8 Bridges Festival Cologne; Project Ives & Mahler - new versions of songs by Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler in arrangements by American composers, sung by Thomas Hampson

- Guest performances/festivals: Guest performances in Madrid and Badajoz with a Mauricio Sotelo focus; concert at the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize award ceremony at Georges Aperghis with works by the composer; opening of the MaerzMusik Berlin festival with works by Project SOLO; Amsterdam, 8 Bridges Festival Cologne(symposion), world premiere of Jennifer Walshe's staged concert piece MARS in Amsterdam; Residency with Teaching Sessions, Reading Lessons and concerts as Ensemble in Residence at the Prague Spring; portrait concerts of Wolfgang Rihm and Luigi Nono at the Salzburg Festival; music theater Ich geh unter lauter Schatten at the Ruhrtriennale; tour to Tokyo and Tongyeong (South Korea) with programs on the history and present of Klangforum and on Vienna. John Zorn concert at the Lausitz Festival Görlitz; Ljubljana New Music Forum Festival.

- Cycle Bruch.Punkt at Wiener Konzerthaus (from fall 2022) 

- Education Projects: Symposion, master classes and concerts at OutHear New Music Week in Larissa (Greece); Teaching Sessions and Reading Lessons with election as "emerging composer" at Prague Spring; Master classes and concerts at Ljubljana New Music Forum Festival; Elementary school project "Neighbors" with. Björn Wilker

- Winner of the Erste Bank Composition Award: Sara Glojnarić

- CDs: Portrait Mirela Ivičević (Kairos), Portrait John Aylward (New Focus Recordings)

2021

- 27 new works

- Music theater: Singularity. Space opera by Miroslav Srnka for the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera, world premiere at the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich (staging: Nicolas Brieger) - Pierrot Lunaire: staged performance of Arnold Schönberg's work at the Vienna Festival with Sofia Jernberg (director: Marlene Monteiro Freitas), repeated at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam - Das Lied von der Erde: staged performance of Gustav Mahler's work at the Wiener Festwochen with Christina Daletska and Michael Pflumm directed and staged by Philippe Quesne.

- Projects: Happiness-Seriousness - Counterpoint Views on Economic Well-Being (streaming of a pre-produced recording at the Festival 8 Bridges Cologne) -Project FIASKO - 100 Years Science of Fiction on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Stanislaw Lem in the context of the festival ImPuls Tanz (works by Polish composers, partly choreographed by Polish choreographers)

- Guest performances/festivals: Happiness-Seriousness at the 8 Bridges Festival Cologne (streaming); Brice Pauset's inter-media composition Vertigo after Alfred Hitchcock with visual installation by Arotin & Sergej at Manifeste Paris; Gustav Mahler Music Weeks in Toblach; Festspiele Erl; two Morton Feldman portrait concerts and works by Olivier Messiaen and Luigi Dallapiccola at the Salzburg Festival; Festival Grafenegg, impuls-Festival Graz, opening of the European Forum Alpbach, Lausitz Festival Görlitz, Festival Wratislavia Cantans in Wroclaw, Ultima Festival Oslo, Warsaw Autumn, Ruhrtriennale, cooperation with the NYKY Ensemble at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki; Donaueschingen, Festival Musik Plus Tirol, Katowice, world premiere of Klaus Lang at the International Festival "December Nights of Swiatoslaw Richter" at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

- Procession cycle at Wiener Konzerthaus (from fall 2021). Due to the limited number of visitors, the concerts will be played twice in a row. Between the concerts, new discussion format "Fermate" with personalities from various disciplines.

- Education projects: PPCM at the Kunstuni Graz, participation in the mediation project "United Workers"; rehearsal of new Finnish pieces with students of the Sibelius Academy Helsinki

- Winner of the Erste Bank composition award: Christof Ressi (premiere postponed to 2022)

- CDs: CD-Box Polish Perspectives (Kairos, together with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute / 4 CDs with works by Wojciech Blazejczyk, Cezary Duchnowski, Marcin Stanczyk and Aleksandra Gryka); Portrait Clara Iannotta (Kairos)

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2020

- program restricted due to covid pandemic

- 8 new works (5 premieres, 3 via live stream)

- Projects: Happiness-Seriousness - Counterpoint Views on Economic Wellbeing (continuation of the Happiness Machine project directed by Mirella Weingarten - 2 performances in Graz) - Hofkonzerte in Graz (three days with 40 short concerts with free admission in 20 inner courtyards in Graz, contribution to the Graz Year of Culture-2020).

- Guest performances/festivals: Sciarrino portrait and Georg Friedrich Haas' in vain at the Salzburg Festival; world premiere of Georges Aperghis' Der Lauf des Lebens and a Rebecca Saunders portrait at the Musikfest Berlin; world premiere Hyperopia by Dorian Concept at the Transart Festival Bolzano, repeat at Musikrotokoll Graz with dynamic concert streaming; world premiere of Clara Iannotta at the Klangspuren Festival in Innsbruck

- Cycle Aura at Wiener Konzerthaus (from autumn 2020): Due to the limited number of visitors, the concerts will be played twice in a row.

- Education projects: PPCM at the Kunstuni Graz (performance of the opera Populus by Peter Jakober with students at the Musikprotokoll as well as live stream concert with Yalda Zamani)

- Winner of the Erste Bank Composition Award: Matthias Kranebitter (world premiere via live stream)

- Peter Paul Kainrath becomes new artistic director of Klangforum Wien.

- CDs: Project SOLO: five-part CD box with solo works (including works commissioned for Lockdown) by the composers Georges Aperghis, Toshio Hosokawa, Olga Neuwirth, Rebecca Saunders and Salvatore Sciarrino, with essays by four philosophers:innen on the term SOLO (Kairos)
CD Scelsi revisited (Kairos / works by Michael Pelzel, Michael Roth, Tristan Murail, Georg Friedrich Haas, Nicola Sani, Uli Fussenegger, Fabien Lévy and Berstad Ragnhild)
Portrait Agata Zubel (Kairos), Portrait Timothy McCormack (Kairos)

2019

- 22 new works

- Music theater: Happiness Machine (20 artists treat alternatives to the prevailing finance-capitalist economic system in 10 animated films with 10 new compositions) - world premiere at the Éclat Festival Stuttgart, repeated at Wiener Konzerthaus and at the International Music Festival Hamburg

- Projects: Symposion - An Intoxication in Eight Departments Four Times in the Museums Quartier

- Guest performances/festivals: Éclat-Festival Stuttgart, Beat Furrer portrait at the Festival Musica viva in Munich, Acht Brücken Festival Köln (UAs of Alberto Posadas, Georg Friedrich Haas, Rebecca Saunders and Ying Wang), Georg Friedrich Haas' Hyena at the Diaghilev Festival Perm, Festival Brücken_19 in Mürzzuschlag, Kraanerg by Xenakis as well as a portrait of Pascal Dusapin at the Salzburg Festival.

- Cycle weight room at Wiener Konzerthaus (from fall 2019)

- Education projects: PPCM at the Kunstuni Graz (project Scan with Gerd Kühr), impuls Academy in Graz, Delian Academy for New Music in Mykonos

- Winner of the Erste Bank composition award: Mirela Ivičević

- CDs: Clemens Gadenstätter, Hannes Kerschbaumer, Klaus Lang, ParZeFool (Kairos), Stefan Prins - Augmented (CD&DVD Kairos)

2018

- 30 new works

- Music theater: world premiere XXX_Live_Nude_Girls!!! (Jennifer Walshe, new adaptation by Kabinetttheater Vienna) and Call me:0666/666 666 (Bernhard Gander, UA) in Grenoble, Third Space (Stefan Prins, Daniel Linehan, UA Munich Biennale, repeat Rainy Days Luxembourg), mono-opera Carlotas Zimmer (Arturo Fuentes, UA Klangspuren Festival Schwaz).

- Projects: Festive Days of Early Music, Das Tuch - Ein Zweifelsfall (dialogues by Martin Mosebach, with Dörte Lyssewski and Hermann Schmid), Schönberg and the Schrammel Brothers in Hamburg, Agata Zubel's Bildbeschreibung (premiere Transart Festival in Bolzano, repeats at Warsaw Autumn and in Vienna), Symposion - Ein Rausch in acht Abteilungen in Brussels and Greatest Hits Festival Hamburg.

- Guest performances/festivals: Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (premieres of Liza Lim, Franck Bedrossian, Ashley Fure), Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung prize winner concert in Munich (Clara Iannotta, Timothy McCormack, Oriol Saladrigues), Festival für Neue Musik Forum Wallis, Prague Spring Festival, Hyena at Holland Festival Amsterdam, six concerts at the Salzburg Festival (time with Ustwolskaja, time with Furrer), musikprotokoll Graz, International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival in Cyprus, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wien Modern, Slowind Festival Ljubljana, further concerts in Barcelona, Paris, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam and s'Hertogenbosch, Beat Furrer portrait in the Wiener Konzerthaus

- Cycle AugenSchein in the Wiener Konzerthaus

- Education Projects: Fremde Ohren oder: Wie Musiker das hören before the cycle concerts, PPCM at the Kunstuni Graz (project SCAN with Georg Friedrich Haas), elementary school project Nachbarn - Die Kunst der Nachbarschaft( Neighbors - The Art of Neighborhood), Young Performers Repertoire Projects, seminar and master classes in Larissa (Greece), participation in mukato workshops (children make films to music).

- Winner of the Erste Bank composition award: Agata Zubel

- CD: Portrait Eva Reiter

2017

- 16 new works

- Music theater: opera based on Richard Wagner by Bernhard Lang and Jonathan Messe (director, stage and costumes) ParZeFool - Mondparsifal Alpha 1-8 (world premiere at the Wiener Festwochen) as well as part 2 Mondparsifal Beta 9-23by one who went out to teach the Wagnerians of horror the Geilstgruseln... (premiere Berliner Festspiele), world premiere of Philippe Boesmans' opera Pinocchio at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (repeat in Dijon).

- Projects: Festive Days of Early Music

- Guest performances/festivals: "Time with Grisey" at the Salzburg Festival, Festival Traiettore in Parma, Transart in Bruneck, Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico, Portrait Peter Eötvös at Greatest Hits in Hamburg, Rainy Days in Luxembourg, Wien Modern, further concerts at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Athens, Graz

- Cycle: transboundary value in Wiener Konzerthaus

- Education: Strange Ears or: How Musicians Hear Before the Cycle Concerts, PPCM at the Kunstuni Graz (project SCAN with Beat Furrer), Neighbors with the Volksschule Am Hundsturm, KlangforumPassage (concert and workshops with refugees)

- Honorary membership in the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft

- Winner of the Erste Bank composition award: Hannes Kerschbaumer

- CDs: Portrait Peter Jakober, Alberto Posadas

- New member: Mikael Rudolfsson (trombone)

2016

- 20 new works

- Music theater: Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera at the Theater an der Wien (staged by Keith Warner), children's opera Das kleine Ich bin ich by Georg Friedrich Haas in Salzburg

- Projects: Festive Days of Early Music (5 evenings of music from the beginning of the 20th century at Wiener Konzerthaus), Das T uch at the Imago Dei Festival Krems (dialogues by Martin Mosebach, music by Joseph Haydn, Messiaen, Sciarrino and Bernhard Lang, with Dörte Lyssewski and Hans-Michael Rehberg), Echotecture with the class Stage Design Anna Viebrock (Academy of Fine Arts), Hyena by and with Georg Friedrich Haas and Mollena Lee Williams-Haas in Vienna (premiere) and Huddersfield

- Guest performances/festivals: Eclat Festival Stuttgart, Cairo Contemporary Music Days, International Music Festival Shanghai (Furrer's FAMA), Wiener Festwochen, ManiFeste Paris, Klang Festival Copenhagen, world premieres of Bernhard Gander and Michael Wertmüller together with Steamboat Switzerland in Donaueschingen, portraits of Peter Eötvös and Friedrich Cerha at the Salzburg Festival, video concert Fallen Falls in Florence (video: Erwin Wurm), KlangSpuren Schwaz, Musikprotokoll Graz, Affekt-Festival Tallinn

- Cycle science?fiction! in Wiener Konzerthaus

- Education projects: for the first time, musicians of the Klangforum design before the cycle concerts Fremde Ohren oder: Wie Musiker das hören, PPCM at the Kunstuni Graz (project SCAN with Klaus Lang), benefit concert for and workshop with refugees (in cooperation with the Brunnenpassage)

- Winner of the Erste Bank composition award: Eva Reiter

- CDs: Reinhard Fuchs, Portrait Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

2015

- 15 new works

Music theater performances: World premiere of El Publico by Mauricio Sotelo at the Madrid Opera, Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino in Achim Freyer's production at the Wiener Festwochen.

- Projects: SCAN with the composer Bernhard Lang and PPCM-students of the Kunstuniversität Graz, continuation of the project one day and one hour in URBO KUNE with 25-hour concerts in experimental form at Wiener Konzerthaus, in Cologne (Acht Brücken-Festival) and Amsterdam (Holland Festival), symposion at the Transart Festival in Brixen, Echotecture with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, world premiere of Sciarrino's complete work Carnaval 1-12 at Pollini Perspectives as well as in Stuttgart, Zurich and at Wien Modern.

- Guest performances: first guest performance in China at the International Composition Competition Bai Chuan Award of the Shanghai Music Conservatory, portrait concerts Aureliano Cattaneo at the Venice Biennale, Michael Pelzel at the Ultraschall Festival Berlin, Ondrej Adámek at Ars Nova Donaueschingen and Alberto Posadas in Vienna, memorial concert for Gerard Mortier at the Ruhrtriennale

- Festivals: March Music in Berlin, Biennale Zagreb, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Rainy Days Luxembourg, Parma, Porto and Gent, Wien Modern, Salzburg Festival, impuls-Festival Graz, Europäisches Forum Alpbach

- Cycle: Generations in the Wiener Konzerthaus

- Education projects: PPCM (Performance Practice in Contemporary Music) at the University of Arts Graz, project Neighbors with the elementary school Am Hundsturm

- Winner of the Erste Bank composition award: Peter Jakober

- CD New Releases: Portrait Christian Mason, Portrait Mark Barden, Bernd Richard Deutsch

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2014

18 new works - music theater performances: Bluthaus by Georg Friedrich Haas at the Wiener Festwochen and in Hamburg, Enno Poppe's Testbatterie in acht Akten IQ directed by Anna Viebrock in Berlin (MaerzMusik) - Kick-off of the project ein tag und eine stunde in URBO KUNE, a utopian city of the arts, with performances at various venues in Vienna, and the art collective Mikulovice - continuation of the project Scelsi REVISITED with concerts at the Aldeburgh Festival, in Darmstadt (Ferienkurse), Oslo (Ultima Festival), Bolzano (Transart) and in the context of an eight-hour symposium in Hellerau/Dresden - world premieres by Beat Furrer and Aurelio Cattaneo in Munich (musica viva), as well as Salvatore Sciarrino's Carnaval 1-10 in Donaueschingen (Musiktage), 8 world premieres at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik - participation in Pollini Perspectives at La Scala in Milan - further concerts in Brussels (Ars musica), Paris, Sion, Pannonhalma, Frankfurt and Wroclaw - cycle Immigrants at Wiener Konzerthaus - concerts and KlubNACHT at Wien Modern, including a Georg Friedrich Haas portrait - Galina Ustvolskaya portrait concert at the Wiener Festwochen, concerts at the Salzburg Festival and together with the RSO at the Grazer musikprotokoll - continuation of the education projects as well as cooperation with the Viennese music schools - Reinhard Fuchs is winner of the Erste Bank composition award - new CD release: Erin Gee

2013

23 new works - Scelsi REVISITED with four commissioned works (premiere in Cologne, Acht Brücken) - Enno Poppes Speicher as well as Georges Aperghis' Situations in Donaueschingen and Vienna - Parole die Settembre by Aureliano Cattaneo with the visual installation of AROTIN & SERGHEI - Unirsi al cielo with six new works by young compos:innen (Premio San Fedele) in Milan and Graz - Written on Skin by George Benjamin conducted by Kent Nagano in Vienna (Festwochen) and Munich (Opernfestspiele) - cycle Langstrecke at Wiener Konzerthaus - opening concert impuls 2013 in Graz with four new works - concert performance of Bruno Maderna's Satyricon at Theater an der Wien - two performances at the Salzburg Festival and concerts in: Paris, Toulouse, Berlin, Pannonhalma, Brugge, Brixen and others - Wien Modern KlubNÄCHTE - Education projects: PPCM - Jugend gibt junge Musik with the Vienna Music Schools - Pure Percussion at the KinderuniKunst - Der Kaiser von Atlantis - Bernd Richard Deutsch is winner of the Erste Bank Composition Award - New CD releases: VORWÄRTS I RÜCKWÄRTS CD/DVD Box - Bernhard Lang - Monadologie XII CD/LP - Stefan Prins - Portrait: Gerald Resch

2012

17 new works - music theater premieres: Andrea Molino: Three Mile Island in Karlsruhe and Rome - Enno Poppe IQ (staged by Anna Viebrock) in Schwetzingen - Claudio Monteverdi/ Philippe Boesman's Poppea e Nerone at Teatro Real, Madrid - Concerts in: Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Oslo, Hamburg, Cologne, Lucerne, Krakow, Milan, Madrid - cycle europa, GLOBAL at Wiener Konzerthaus - Wien Modern, opening concert with Olga Neuwirth's Hommage à Klaus Nomi - two performances at the Salzburg Festival and concerts in: Alpbach, Graz, Bludenz, Linz (Brucknerfest), Graz (musikprotokoll), Schwaz (Klangspuren) - Education projects: Professorship at the Kunstuniversität Graz (Studium PPCM) - Two school projects Kinder komponieren, - Percussion-Workshop für Jugendliche - Beat Furrer is laureate of the Erste Bank Kompositionspreis - New CD releases: Aperghis, Kalitzke, Rihm, Resch, Sciarrino

2011

18 new works - Project Oskar Serti goes to concert! Why? directed by Markus Kupferblum in Vienna, Luxembourg and Cologne - 3 performances of Giorgio Battistelli's The Taxidermist at the Festival Out of Control in Vienna - Benjamin Britten The Rape of Lucretia with Angelika Kirchschlager at the Theater an der Wien - Desert Book by Beat Furrer at the Wiener Festwochen - Concertante performance of Salvatore Sciarrino's Macbeth at the Salzburg Festival - 3 concerts at Festliche Tage alter Musik at the Theater an der Wien - cycle IKONEN with 7 concerts at Wiener Konzerthaus - 3 concerts at Wien Modern - impuls Graz - musikprotokoll at steirischer herbst - Klangspuren Schwaz - Salzburg Biennale - Bregenz Festival - tribute Friedrich Cerha on his 80th birthday in Vienna and Salzburg. Birthday in Vienna and Salzburg - further concerts in: Amsterdam, Athens, Belgrade, Berlin, Cologne, Krakow, Linz, Mürzzuschlag, Trieste, Vill and Weimar - teaching activity at the University of Arts Graz (study PPCM) and at the Summer Academy Mürzzuschlag - Gerald Resch is laureate of the Erste Bank Composition Award 2011 - CDs: Joanna Wozny, Friedrich Cerha, both with KAIROS
- pianist Joonas Ahonen becomes new member of the ensemble

2010

19 new works - World premiere of the opera Die Besessenen by Johannes Kalitzke at the Theater an der Wien - World premiere of the opera Wüstenbuch by Beat Furrer directed by Christoph Marthaler in Basel and Berlin at MärzMusik - World premiere of the opera Les Boulingrin by Georges Aperghis directed by Jérome Deschamps at the Opéra Comique in Paris - performances in Amsterdam - Kiel - Witten - Parma - Krakow - Alicante - Darmstadt - Strasbourg - Eppan - Prague - Porto - Salzburg - Arcana Festival St. Gallen/Gesäuse - Trieste - Salzburg Festival - Festival Pannonhalma - Wien Modern - Summer Academy isa Mürzzuschlag - participation in the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt - concert cycle Schluss mit traurig at Wiener Konzerthaus - first edition of a spontaneous cycle Schluss mit traurig 2 with 7 concerts for 2011 - professorship at the University of Arts Graz - Joanna Wozny is a laureate of the Erste Bank Composition Award. CD recordings: Portrait Bernhard Lang - Philippe Boesmans

2009

25-Years Klangforum Wien - 25 New Works to 25 Composers - 27 Hours Festival - World Premiere of the Opera Yvonne by Philippe Boesmans, staged by Luc Bondy in Paris, follow-up performance at the Wiener Festwochen - Die Dreigroschenoper by Kurt Weill in Hamburg, London, Paris and WienKammeroper; The Great Bakery Attack at Out of Control 2009 in Vienna - Progetto Pollini in Cologne, Milan and Paris - trip to New York with three performances including free radicals at Lincoln Center - Spain tour - Brussels - Hamburg - Venice - Berlin - Krakow - Bressanone - Parma - Belgrade - Amsterdam - Symposion Tonlagen in Dresden - Cycle VORWÄRTS | RÜCKWÄRTS at Wiener Konzerthaus - Salzburg Festival - Wien Modern - Impuls and Musikprotokoll Graz - Festival 4020 Linz - Feldkirch - the Klangforum Wien receives a professorship at the University of Arts Graz - Bernhard Lang is the laureate of the Erste Bank Composition Award.
CDs: Portrait Helmut Lachenmann - Portrait Olga Neuwirth

2008

World premiere of Melancholia, music theater by Georg Friedrich Haas, Opéra National de Paris, then at steierischer herbst - ensemblia with the Ensemble Modern and the Ensemble Intercontemporain as well as Müll by Dror Feiler at the Donaueschinger Musiktage -Jakob Lenz, music theater by Wolfgang Rihm in Frank Castorf's production at the Wiener Festwochen - Luci mie Traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino in Rebecca Horn's production at the Salzburg Festival and Theater an der Wien - The rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten, Philharmonie Cologne and Wiener Konzerthaus - Witten - Stockholm - Basel - Munich - Huddersfield - cycle The 7 Deadly Sins of New Music at Wiener Konzerthaus - Salzburg Festival - Wien Modern - Interdisciplinary School Project on Jakob Lenz (13 school classes) - Elementary School Project Children Compose - CDs: Bernhard Lang (2CDS + DVD) - Portrait Klaus Lang - Schönberg and the Schrammel Brothers

2007

World premiere of Sauser from Italy with works by Giacinto Scelsi directed by Christoph Marthaler at the Salzburg Festival and the Ruhrtriennale - Opera Da Gelo a Gelo by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Opéra Nacional de Paris - free radicals, music and film in condensed form, in cooperation with Amour Fou Film Vienna, La Biennale di Venezia - FAMA at Holland Festival and Stanislavsky Music Theatre, Moscow - Portugal tour - Musiktriennale Köln - Ars Musica, Brussels - Warsaw Autumn Festival - cycle Aliens at Wiener Konzerthaus - Mozartwoche at Mozarteum, Salzburg - project Out of Control 2007, Museumsquartier - final concert Impuls 2007, Graz - Wiener Festwochen - Impulstanz, Semperdepot - Wien Modern. CDs: Gander, Feiler, Kühr, O. Neuwirth
- Virginie Tarrête (harp) and Olivier Vivarès (clarinet) become members of.

2006

I hate Mozart, music theater by Bernhard Lang and Michael Sturminger at Theater an der Wien as part of the Mozart Year - La passion de Simone by Kaija Saariaho, staged by Peter Sellers for the Wiener Festwochen - Theater der Wiederholungen by Bernhard Lang at the Opéra Nacional de Paris - La philosophie dans le labyrinthe by Aureliano Cattaneo at the Munich Biennale - FAMA at the Opéra National de Paris and at the Biennale di Venezia - Ensemble in Residence of the Biennale di Venezia -- Budapest Autumn Festival - Territory Festival, Moscow - cycle Monumente im Wiener Konzerthaus - Salzburger Festspiele u.a. with Symposion on the Perner Insel (farewell concert for Peter Ruzicka) - Progetto Pollini at Wien Modern - Studio für Neue Musik, annual lectures at the Musikuniversität Graz - CDs: Dahinden, Feiler, Furrer, B. Lang, Mitterer, O. Neuwirth, Offenbach, Poppe, Portrait Hans Zender.

2005

World premiere of FAMA, audio theater for large Ensemble by Beat Furrer in the scenic arrangement by Christoph Marthaler at the Donaueschinger Musiktage - Spain tour (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla) - Japan tour (Tokyo, Takefu) - Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik - Impuls, composition competition, Final concert in Graz - Wolf at the Opéra Paris - Symposion at Transart - Cologne - Berlin - Stuttgart - Ars Musica, Brussels - Agora Festival, Paris - Philharmonie Luxembourg - cycle Fluchtpunkte im Wiener Konzerthaus - Salzburg Festival - Forum Alpbach - Musikprotokoll Graz - steirischer Herbst - Wien Modern - CDs: Poppe, Sciarrino, Portrait Wolfram Schurig

2004

27-hour opening festival of the new Klangforum building at Diehlgasse 51 (12 premieres by young composers). Three-year contract with the Opéra National de Paris - Anton Webern Festival (complete works) under the direction of Friedrich Cerha and Sylvain Cambreling at the Vienna Festival - Berenice, music theater by Johannes Maria Staud at the Munich Biennale as well as at the Berlin Festival - Wolf by Alain Platel in Amsterdam, Zurich, Avignon, London, Vienna - netzzeit project Out of Control at Museumsquartier - cycle Feste feiern at Wiener Konzerthaus - Ars Musica, Brussels - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - Venice Biennale - Autumn Festival Budapest -Berlin Festival - Klangspuren Schwaz - Wien Modern - steirischer herbst - CDs: Eötvös, Gadenstätter, Jarrell
- Anders Nyqvist (trumpet) becomes new member

2003

International presence: Stuttgart, Eclat Festival - Montreal, Societé de musique contemporaine du Québec - project by Andrea Molino on the death penalty, Those who speak in a faint voice in Milan and New York - Wolf, a scenic project by Alain Platel at the Ruhr Triennale in Duisburg as well as in Berlin, Avignon, Gent, London, Brussels and Amsterdam - Witten, Tage für Neue Kammermusik - Saarbrücken - projects in Austria: World premiere of Drift by Wolfgang Suppan in a concert version and a choreographed version by Rose Breuss - four concerts at Graz 2003, European Capital of Culture - Festival 4020 Linz - Wiener Festwochen - Bregenz Festival - Salzburg Festival - music theater performances: Georg Friedrich Haas Die schöne Wunde at the Bregenz Festival - Bernhard Lang's Das Theater der Wiederholungen as well as Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway at steirischer herbst 2003 - CDs: Billone, Eötvös, Haas, Mochizuki, O. Neuwirth, Portrait Johannes Maria Staud
- Krassimir Sterev (accordion) becomes new member

2002

International performances: Music theater project in vain - reproduction forbidden with Anna Viebrock at the Zurich Schauspielhaus - Pollini project in Paris (with Brian Ferneyhough's The Doctrine of Similarity) - opening of the new Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City on the 18th. April - Mountain War project by George Lopez for the Ruhr Triennale; there also revival of the Salzburg production of Pierrot Lunaire/Quatuorpour la fin du temps by Marthaler/Viebrock - concert for the opening season of the Konzerthaus Dortmund - concert project with Fanfare Cioçarlia in Berlin - guest performances in Bruges, Dijon, etc. - Projects in Austria: Birthday concert for Hans Landesmann at Wiener Konzerthaus - Black Friday project at Radiokulturhaus, Konzerthaus and Porgy & Bess with live and remixed music by Beat Furrer and Bernhard Lang - Sound theaterAs I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Eötvös at Wiener Konzerthaus - Opera Three Sisters by Eötvös at the Vienna Festival - Homage to Helmut Lachenmann at the Salzburg Festival - Opera Macbeth by Salvatore Sciarrino in Graz - Project Klangwege 2003 together with the Music University Graz - Symposion revival in Vienna - New subscription cycle Wozu Musik - Sieben Antworten? is almost sold out for the first time (500 subscribers) - CD releases: Ablinger, Billone, Gadenstätter, Portrait Georg Friedrich Haas, O. Neuwirth

2001

Music theater: Vivace, project by Beverly Blankenship with netzzeit at Schauspielhaus Wien; Austrian premiere of the opera Gute Miene, böses Spiel by Karl Wieland Kurz - Projects: first project Symposion together with netzzeit at MuseumsQuartier/Halle E in Vienna (new music while lying on futons, in between wine and food); Schönberg and the Schrammel Brothers in Berlin - Guest performances/festivals: concerts in Ravensburg, Cologne, Madrid, Wiesbaden, Bonn, Berlin (among others. with Jost Meier's Jandl cycle An diesen sonnigen Tagen, also at Musikmonat Basel), Lucerne, Boswil, in Takefu (Japan), Huddersfield, Hörgänge-Festival, Lange Nacht der IGNM, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburger Festspiele/Zeitfluss, Klangspuren Schwaz, Tage für Zeitgemäße Musik Bludenz, musikprotokoll - CD productions: Clemens Gadenstätter (String Trio Klangforum), Georg Friedrich Haas (ORF), Franz Koglmann, Helmut Lachenmann, Mouvement a.a. (Kairos), Helmut Lachenmann, Nun/Notturno (Kairos), Jorge E. López-Portrait, Olga Neuwirth - Vampyrotheone (Kairos), Giacinto Scelsi-Portrait (Kairos), Salvatore Sciarrino, Macbeth (col legno), Hans Zender-Portrait (Kairos)
- Giovanna Reitano (Harp) and Gerald Preinfalk (Saxophone) become new members

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2000

Music theater: Sciarrino's opera Luci mie traditrici in Lisbon and Paris; premiere of The Long Rain (music: Olga Neuwirth; film: Michael Kreihsl) at steirischer herbst; Peter Eötvös' sound theater As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams together with the group netzzeit at Schauspielhaus Vienna - Guest performances/festivals: Spain tour (Seville, Granada, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela), performances in Hamburg, Saarbrücken, Regensburg, Darmstadt, Lucerne, Parma, at the Expo 2000 in Hannover, at the WDR in Cologne (premiere of G. F. Haas in vain for 24 instrumentalists), in Bregenz, at the Salzburg Festival (portrait concerts Gerd Kühr), at the Long Night of the IGNM at the Konzerthaus (with UAs by Oskar Aichinger, Dirk D'Ase and Olga Neuwirth), UA of Wolfram Schurig's Augenmaß at musikprotokoll; Stodt aus Staa by Christian Muthspiel with Kurt Ostbahn and the Klangforum Wien at Wiener Konzerthaus and at the Brucknerhaus Linz, film and music at the Konzerthaus (Martin Matalon: Music for the film Metropolis) - cycle at the Konzerthaus is under the program title 100 Years of New Music - Education Projects: International composition workshop in Vienna - CD productions: Peter Ablinger, Peter Eötvös (Kairos), Beat Furrer portrait (Kairos), Hanspeter Kyburz, Malstrom et al. (Kairos), Bernhard Lang, Difference/Repetition (Kairos), Wolfgang Rihm portrait (Kairos), Salvatore Sciarrino

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1999

Ernst Krenek portrait concert in Vienna - concert performance of Friedrich Cerha's stage work Netzwerk at the Vienna Festival - world premiere of Olga Neuwirth's music theater Bählamms Fest at the Vienna Festival - Peter Eötvös project in Vienna, Basel and Stuttgart - Robert Suter birthday concert in Vienna - premiere of Luciano Berio's opera (Azione musicale) Cronaca del Luogo, written for the Klangforum Wien , and concert engagements(Progetto Pollini) at the Salzburg Festival - 100th anniversary concert of the Graz Opera - further concerts in Austria, among others. a. at musikprotokoll, Hörgängen as well as at wien modern - revival of La Vie Parisienne by Offenbach in Berlin - performances at the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, in Weimar, Bremen and at the Komponistenforum Boswil - CDs with works by Furrer, Giacinto Scelsi-Portrait (Kairos), Rihm, Neidhöfer, Lopez, Gadenstätter; first CD production on the KAIROS label: Hans Zender: Schubert's Winterreise, and Morton Feldman(For Samuel Beckett), Klaus Lang portrait (Durian Records), Matthias Pintscher portrait (Kairos)
- new Mitglield: Vera Fischer (flute); Sven Hartberger takes over in November the direction of the Klangforum Wien

1998

International engagements among others in Sevilla, Berlin, Cologne, Brussels, Zurich, Wiesbaden, Budapest, Brussels, Lisbon, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival as well as Octobre en Normandie - La Vie Parisienne by Jacques Offenbach in an adaptation by Sylvain Cambreling and Christoph Marthaler at the Vienna Burgtheater, at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin and at the Bonn Opera as well as CD production - further CD recordings with compositions by Barraqué (Oeuvres complètes), Scelsi, Mundry, Lachenmann, Kyburz - portrait concert and CD Georg Friedrich Haas at the ORF in Vienna - further concerts in Austria a. o. at the Schönberg Festival in Vienna, the Long Night of the IGNM at Wiener Konzerthaus (the CONDUCTOR Dominique My leads the Klangforum for the first time), at the Osterklang, at the Klangspuren Schwaz, at musikprotokoll, at the Bregenz Festival (concert as well as revival of Nacht by G. F. Haas; further performances at wien modern) and at the Salzburg Festival (among others portrait concert Olga Neuwirth) - International Composers Workshop at the Arnold Schönberg Center

1997

Portrait concerts Gösta Neuwirth in Berlin and Graz - Performances in Rome, New York, Moscow, St. Petersburg (Festival Petersburger Frühling with focus on Austria), Bielefeld, at the Biennale Neue Musik, Hannover, at the Tonhalle Zürich, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, at the Bregenz Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the Zeitfluss Festival (i. a. portrait concert of Karlheinz Essl), at the Schleswig Holstein Festival, musikprotokoll in Graz (including a ceremony celebrating 30 years of musikprotokoll), in Krems, at the Tage für zeitgemäße Musik Bludenz and at wien modern - Japan Tour (Tokyo, Osaka; Akiyoshidai Festival, theme: Austria 1897-1997)
- Sophie Schafleitner (violin) becomes member

1996

Klangforum Festival at the Odeon with works by Michael Jarrell, Heinz Holliger, Isabel Mundry, Wener Dafeldecker, Hanspeter Kyburz, Björn Wilker, Wolfram Schurig, Jürg Wyttenbach and Burkhard Stangl - birthday concert Friedrich Cerha and György Kurtág at Wiener Konzerthaus - international performances in Berlin, Seville, Geneva, Zurich, Lucerne, Stuttgart, Oslo, Venice, Antwerp, among others, Schleswig Holstein, Saarbrücken, Hombroich, Jerusalem and Witten - concerts in Germany at the Hörgängen, the IGNM Festival Vienna, the Grazer musikprotokoll, Brucknerfest Linz, the International Summer Academy Mozarteum (Cerha Portrait), the Bregenz Festival (premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas' Nacht) - at the Salzburg Festival concerts as well as music theater: Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps in a production by Christoph Marthaler and Anna Viebrock - new CD releases: Beat Furrer Narcissus and Portrait CD
- Sasa Dragovic (trumpet) and Andrew Jezek (viola) become ensemble members

1995

The anniversary Ten years Klangforum Wien is celebrated with special projects in Wiener Konzerthaus, in Graz and Witten - Festival Französische Streifzüge in Wiener Konzerthaus with works by Jean Barraqué, Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail, Olivier Messiaen and Maurice Ravel; besides Jürg Wyttenbach and Beat Furrer Sylvain Cambreling conducts (for the first time) the Klangforum Wien - Portrait Olga Neuwirth in Bremen (Bremer Podium) - turned matters - into sound in the Kunst.Halle.Krems - Zemlinsky project at the Salzburg Mozarteum - further performances in Schaffhausen, Brussels, Ferrara, Berlin, Gotha, Jena, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Bludenz, Donaueschingen, Witten, Essen, Royaumont, Milan, Warsaw, Zurich, Stuttgart, Trieste, Huddersfield, Reggio Emilia, Prague, at the Bregenz Festival, Zeitfluss/Salzburg Festival, musikprotokoll and the Venice Biennale. New CD releases: Portrait Olga Neuwirth, Klangforum Wien - Live at Konzerthaus Wien
- Lorelei Dowling (bassoon) and Markus Deuter (oboe) become ensemble members

1994

78 concerts internationally; Varèse Festival (director: Arturo Tamayo; Schömerhaus Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Graz, Bratislava), concert at the Centre Georges Pompidou, festive concert for the 75th birthday. Birthday of Roman Haubenstrock-Ramati, project Second Viennese School with Friedrich Cerha, composers' seminar "Mouvements - Composition and Interpretation" in Vienna with Sylvano Bussotti, Peter Eötvös and Helmut Lachenmann as lecturers, Austrian premiere of Zender's Schubert's Winterreise at the Vienna Festival, tour Wiesbaden - Berlin - Amsterdam, three concerts at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, Salzburg Festival/International Summer Academy Mozarteum: Mauricio Kagel conducts the Klangforum Wien for the first time ; two concerts at the Bregenz Festival, International Music Festival Lucerne, Warsaw Autumn, Steirischer Herbst, Zurich New Music Days, New Music Days Stuttgart, Premio musicale Città di Trieste, Wien modern (Furrer, Rihm, Feldman), Huddersfield Festival: debut of H. K. Gruber as CONDUCTOR of Klangforum Wien
- ensemble members will be: Bernhard Zachhuber (clarinet), Dimitrios Polisoidis (viola) and Marino Formenti (piano).

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1993

Over 60 performances at home and abroad; project Klangnetze im Konzerthaus - concerts in Cuenca/Spain, Barcelona, Venice (Biennale), Stuttgart (Kammertheater), Rome (Nuovi Spazi Musicali), Salzburg (Zeitfluss/Salzburger Festspiele), Frankfurt (Alte Oper), Graz (musikprotokoll; first collaboration with Arturo Tamayo at the Festival Farben der Seele), Bologna, Trieste, Lugano, Berlin (Insel Musik); world premiere of Olga Neuwirht's Lonicera Caprifolium; Austrian premiere of George Lopez's Blue Cliffs; Scelsi tour: Brucknerfest Linz, Tage für Neue Musik Bludenz, Graz and Bratislava; Zender tour: Hans Zender conducts the Klangforum Wien, for the first time, in Bratislava, Vienna and Brussels; works by Boulez, Essl, Zimmermann and Zender; Johannes Kalitze debuts on the podium of the Klangforum Wien in the Konzerthaus with pieces by Lachenmann, Billone and Kalitzke
- new members: Christoph Walder (horn), Björn Wilker (percussion)

1992

22 concerts at home and abroad; premiere and Austrian premieres of works by Wolfgang Rihm on the occasion of the Kocherscheidt exhibition in the Secession; guest performance in Budapest; participation in the Graben Festival under the motto Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music ) with works by Toch, Krenek, Schulhoff, Eisler, Schmidt, Hindemith, David and Webern; Three concerts at Wien Modern (Kühr, Schwertsik, Henze); guest performance in Duisburg with pieces by Cerha, Apostel, Ligeti, Schreker, Essl, Haubenstock-Ramati, Winkler, Furrer, Webern, Schönberg, Stankovski, Gadenstätter, Neuwirth, Schurig, Haas, Ligeti, Ablinger and Herndler; CDs: Beat Furrer, Die Blinden
- from August Peter Oswald directs the Klangforum Wien; the foundations are laid for a year-round and internationally operating soloist ensemble; new member: Florian Müller (piano).

1991

20 concert performances and two opera productions (Beat Furrer, Olga Neuwirth); The Klangforum Wien constitutes itself as an association with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Beat Furrer as president; Spanish debut in Madrid; Concert performance of Furrer's opera Die Blinden at the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik; Recording appears on CD; Two opera acts by Olga Neuwirth/Elfriede Jelinek(Körperliche Veränderungen/DerWald) at the Wiener Festwochen
- Ensemble debut: Eva Zwicker (later Furrer, flute)

1990

16 concert performances at the Secession and the Konzerthaus, in the latter from the 1990/91 season its own concert cycle; world premiere of Beaubourg Musique by Haubenstock-Ramati; first performances by Gerhard E. Winkler, Christoph Herndler, Roland Faber and Mathias Spahlinger; Guillermo Büchler (violin), Roberto Fabbricciani (flute), Lucas Fels (violoncello), Ernesto Molinari (clarinet), Philippe Racine (flute) and Marcus Weiss (saxophone) play, among others, works by Mauricio Soebel. works by Mauricio Sotelo, Peter Böhm and Luigi Nono, among others; guest performance in Erlangen
- ensemble debuts: Andreas Lindenbaum (violoncello), Dimitrios Polisoidis (viola) and Andreas Eberle (trombone); Primavera Gruber has been manager of the Klangforum Wien

1989

The name "Klangforum Wien" appears on a program slip for the first time, on January 30, 1989; Annette Bik, Donna Wagner and Reinhold Brunner make their debut at this concert; concerts at the Secession, the Schubert and Brahmssaal halls of the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Odeon; music festival for Roman Haubenstock-Ramati on February 27. February; The Magic Sound - a celebration of Giacinto Scelsi at musikprotokoll in Graz.
- Ensemble debuts: Annette Bik (violin), Donna Wagner (clarinet), Reinhold Brunner (clarinet), Gundelind Micko (now Jäch-Micko, violin), Benedikt Leitner (violoncello)

1988

Five concerts at the Vienna Secession, one at Theater Gruppe 80; Marcus Weiss performs for the first time a piece by Mauricio Sotelo for saxophone solo
- Ensemble debuts: Sylvie Lacroix (flute), Marian Vasile (oboe) with Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kreuzspiel, and Lukas Schiske plays in a percussion program with pieces by Essl, Liberda, Richard, Cage and Haubenstock-Ramati

1987

A total of nine concerts, all at the Vienna Secession; for the concert on June 18, musicians from the Vienna-based Chamber Orchestra of Europe are brought in without further ado, and they enthusiastically participate in Octandre by Edgard Varèse and Palimpsest by Iannis Xenakis ; works by the following composers will also be performed this year: Ablinger, Berio, Birtwistle/de Machaut, Delz, Furrer, Glaus, Globokar, Haubenstock-Ramati, Hölderle, Huber, Ibarrondo, Juon, Kagel, Lachenmann, Lehmann, Liberda, Ligeti, Nono, Roque d'Alsina, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Stravinsky, Tower, Varèse, White, Wildberger, Xenakis
- Ensemble debuts: Lila Brown (viola), Uli Fussenegger (double bass) and Marcus Weiss (saxophone).

1986

For the first time, the Vienna Secession will be the venue for performances: on March 21, on the program: works by George Crumb, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Beat Furrer and Kazuo Fukushima; two further concerts at Palais Palffy, a concert as part of the Swiss Music Days in the Schubert Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus

1985

In March, constituent meeting and program discussion; first concert of the so-called "Société de l'Art Acoustique" on June 13 at the Palais Liechtenstein (on the program: Bagatelles for Wind Quintet by György Ligeti, Tract by Peter Ablinger, Limericks by Pawel Szymanski, rest of two tragic scenes by Bruno Liberda and Music for Mallets by Beat Furrer, performers: Alexandra Bachtiar and Florian Kitt (violoncello), Christiane Hellmann (flute), Nancy Wu (violin) and the Mallet Trio); second concert on October 8 in the Schubert Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus with works by Szymanski, Varèse, Furrer, Haubenstock-Ramati, and Birtwistle; performers include: Anne Tedards (soprano), Dieter Flury (flute), Mathias Dulack (violoncello), Christian Ofenbauer (harpsichord), Ernst Reiter (clarinet); on 14. November music by Liberda, Berg, Webern, Debussy and Feldman will be heard at the Palais Liechtenstein; on 12. December there Scelsi, Furrer, Huber, Messiaen and Feldman.

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