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Klangforum Wien Orchestra

With the KLANGFORUM WIEN ORCHESTRA, the ensemble will perform in selected concert projects from 2025 as an enlarged formation together with former and current students of the master's and postgraduate programme "Performance Practice in Contemporary Music" (PPCM).

On 13 June 1985, the foundation stone was laid for a history of success in many respects in the creation of new music. The founding of Klangforum Wien as a soloist ensemble not only created excellent conditions for adequately realizing the previously unimaginable in terms of sound creativity, but also led to numerous encounters with highly talented musicians over these first four decades, who became significant companions of the ensemble in masterclasses, but above all as part of the ensemble's own PPCM professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

With them, the established ensemble framework of the KLANGFORUM WIEN ORCHESTRA will be expanded to include large orchestral works of contemporary music in its own history of interpretation. The KLANGFORUM WIEN ORCHESTRA scales up many of the ensemble's characteristic components.

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KLANGFORUM WIEN ORCHESTRA made its debut in 2025 at the Salzburg Festival. Directed by Evgeny Titov, the programme kicked off with the new production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, including a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg and Peter Eötvös. In addition, KLANGFORUM WIEN ORCHESTRA, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling and featuring soprano Sarah Aristidou, performed works by Pierre Boulez, paying tribute to the composer and conductor on his 100th birthday.

As part of the concert cycle at Wiener Konzerthaus, the orchestra formation presents Olivier Messiaen's impressive work "Des Canyons aux étoiles" on January 16, 2026, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.

"In dialog with young musicians, we are able to exchange ideas with the next generation, which is an important aspect in the fifth decade of this ensemble's existence."
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Peter Paul Kainrath, Artistic Director
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