Independent Music Association

Mohsen Shanehchi, born I Mashhad-Iran in 1997, is a composer and Santur player based in Linz-Austria. He is currently studying bachelor of music composition at Anton Bruckner university under prof. Erland Maria Freudenthaler.
His compositions are mostly influenced by Persian musical elements and Trying to create a new sound by integrating Iranian and Western music.
His pieces have been performed in different festivals and concert halls such as Leicht Über Linz festival and at Brucknerhaus with Lizard ensemble.
He has studied Santur under one of the most remarkable Santur masters of all time, Ardavan Kamkar. He has also participated in Siamak Aghaie master class of santur.

Toranj Mashayekhi, born in Tehran in 1995, is a musician based in Vienna. Her musical path includes performing as a solo pianist, engaging in chamber music, conducting choirs, and teaching. She is currently pursuing a master's program in Piano Pedagogy at mdw and studying Musicology at Vienna University. Her studies also encompass a focus on Choir and Ensemble Conducting, Contemporary Piano Music, and Improvisation. This diverse range of expertise has led her to perform in various music scenes, spanning from church music to contemporary music festivals and competitions, including "Wien Modern," the "Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition," and "Wiener Tage der zeitgenössischen Klaviermusik."
Guided by exceptional mentors in both Tehran and Vienna since she began learning the piano at age 9, Toranj is driven by a deep passion for literature and fine arts. Her aim is to interweave these elements into her music, whether performing solo or collaborating in interdisciplinary and innovative concert concepts. She actively explores new methods to enhance music understanding and appreciation. Her dedication to gender equality is evident in her involvement in organizing events for International Women's Day, reflecting her comprehensive approach to music and social engagement.
As an educator, she endeavors to share the connections between music and diverse forms of art, fostering a deeper understanding among her students and audiences.

Soroush Shams, born in 1997 in Iran, began his musical journey at the age of 12 with the Persian percussion called "Daf." Continuing with a passion for other percussion instruments, he gained experience performing them in various groups and concerts. With a strong interest in music education, an opportunity arose for him to start teaching the Daf at a young age. This experience had such a profound impact on him that teaching, in addition to his deep passion, became one of his primary concerns.
During this time, he also developed an interest in the "Setar", one of the traditional Iranian instruments, and started learning to play it. Upon completing high school and entering university, he decided to pursue his studies in music at the undergraduate level to follow a professional music career. This marked the beginning of his journey with the "Tar," the national instrument of Iran.
Upon completing his undergraduate studies and gaining extensive experience in performance, teaching, theoretical studies, and composition, he made the decision to continue his studies in music education, his main passion and concern. However, due to the absence of this field in Iran, he decided to pursue further education abroad. In 2021, he was able to secure a full-funded scholarship from Turkey and continue his education in music education at the Ankara Music and Fine Arts University at the master's level. In 2023, he was accepted into the Erasmus+ internship program of the European Union. Currently, alongside teaching the Tar, Setar, Daf, and music theory fundamentals at music institute in Ankara, Turkey, he is engaged in research and study in the field of music education, particularly focused on modal and Eastern music, with a special emphasis on Iran.

Elnaz Mohammadzadeh, born in 1989 in Tehran, Iran, is a Santur player, ethnomusicologist, and archivist.
She began her musical journey at the age of 15, studying Santur and Persian music theory under esteemed mentors such as Hossein Dizani, Toofan Teymori, Yahya Alavi, Samad Barghi, among others, in Iran. Recently, she has been actively participating in Santur and Radif courses led by Siamak Aghaei. Elnaz's performances in both Iran and Austria showcase her versatility across various musical genres and improvisational forms.
She studied library and information science at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad, Iran. In 2014, she moved to Vienna, Austria, where she successfully obtained her Bachelor's degree in Musicology from the University of Vienna. Currently, she is pursuing a Master's degree in Ethnomusicology at mdw, while also working in the archive of the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at mdw.
In addition to ethnomusicological archiving, her research focuses on Persian classical music and folk music of Iran.

©️Amar Mehmedinovic

Rosemary and the Sea - INMUAS in Concert
Fr., 30. Juni | Wien

Alma-Rosé-Quartett
Viktor Novikov | Violine
Pia Onuska | Violine
Marie Alma-Mala Schmidt | Viola
Ana Sincek | Violoncello

Pieces by:
Marius Binder, Oskar Gigele, Florin Gorgos, Philipp Manuel Gutmann, Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, Martin Lichtfuss, Armin Sanayei, Stepan Sobanov, Christoph Stuhlpfarrer, Eric Ziegelbauer

Admission with free choice of seat: 15.-
Seat reservation at [email protected]

Looking forward to see you🎻

“Beer time” after our concert in

Thank you to everyone who came to our concert or watched us live!

Looking forward to seeing you in our next concert in in June.
♥️

On the 22nd February in we will present  our next concert “Pas de Trios”
🤩🎶

Cellists:
Hanna Vogel
Namdar Majidi
Manuel Schager

Pieces by:
Judit Varga, Martin Lichtfuss, Philipp Manuel Gutmann, Leon Liang, Oskar Gigele, Carlos Eduardo Verdam Maria, Armin Sanayei

Looking forward to seeing you!

We are very grateful to everyone, who made our three concerts at 'Porgy & Bess' possible everyone included and our wonderful audience!

Special thanks to jazz & music club "Porgy & Bess", Vienna and SKE Austro Mechana for the support ❣️

Can't wait to see you next time! 🎶♥️

On the 6th, 7th and 8th October in Jazz Club Porgy & Bess Vienna we will present three INMUAS portrait concerts - Piano +, Winds + and Strings +
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06.10 Piano+ program:

Kaori Nishii, Oskar Gigele, Nina Fried play pieces by:

Oskar Gigele, Eric Ziegelbauer, Philipp Manuel Gutmann, Florin Gorgos

07.10 Winds + program:

Peter Joyce, Eric Ziegelbauer, Sarah Bröter, Iris Maaß, Maria Bunea perform pieces by:

Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, Oskar Gigele, Eric Ziegelbauer, Philipp Manuel Gutmann

08.10 Strings + program:

InMuAs String Quartet play pieces by:

Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, Florin Gorgos, Philipp Manuel Gutmann, Armin Sanayei, Christoph Stuhlpfarrer

All concerts start at 19 o'clock in Jazz club Porgy & Bess
Vienna 1010, Riemergasse 11

Entrance: Pay as you wish

Can't wait to see you there❣️🎵

INMUAS Soundpost № 9 is now online - this time you can hear the interview with the composer Carol Robinson and her piece "Forest Gazing II". In 2021 Carol won the INMUAS "Call for scores" together with Johnny Macmillan and her piece was played by INMUAS musicians​ in October 2021 - you can hear the recording at the end of the soundpost. In a conversation with Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, Carol shares interesting facts about her life, her connection with nature and how she recreates it in her music. The American-born composer also explains who and what inspires her and why she decided to join our "Call for scores".

At 43:15 you can hear Carol Robinson's composition "Forest Gazing II"- 5 miniatures for clarinet and string quartet played by Peter Joyce - clarinet, Sarvin Hazin -violin, Eirini Krikoni -violin, Loredana Apetrei -viola and Namdar Majidi -violoncello.

Producer: Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, Florin Gorgos
Music mastering: Stephan Sobanov
Post-production: Florin Gorgos
Cover Design: Lilia Kirilova

Link to INMUAS Soundpost № 9 on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2tyc4gAhZnh70Q2FLtdRsq

Stay tuned for our next episode of INMUAS Soundpost!

We are looking for a person to take care of:

-) the development of concepts for public funding organizations
-) establishing cooperations between ensembles/musicians and our association.
-) scheduling and arranging concerts
-) advertising and marketing

We offer 10% of our total annual income as an association.

If you are interested, contact us here or on our email address:
[email protected]

Don't miss tonight at 22:05 - Radio Ö1:
Interview with Armin Sanayei and Oskar Gigele about INMUAS

You can also hear:
Rosemary Chicken and potatoes for dinner / Roberta Lazo Valenzuela

Er liebt sie / Oskar Gigele

Evening, Night, Morning / Oskar Gigele

Karak / Armin Sanayei

Seacoloured Lightbellsounds / Philipp Manuel Gutmann

Streichquartett / Christoph Stuhlpfarrer

Futile / Florin Gorgos

Performed by:
Sarvin Hazin - violin
krikoni - violin
Namdar Majidi - violoncello
Peter Joyce - clarinet
Nava Hemyari - voice (Er liebt sie)
Sarah Bröter- Sopran -voice (Rosemary Chicken and potatoes for dinner)

Ein junger Verein für vielfältige Musik | SO | 15 05 2022 | 22:05 The Independent Music Association. Wiens neuer musikalischer Schmelztiegel

In the 8th Episode of INMUAS soundpost you can hear the piece "Clarinet Quintet (2009)" of Armin Sanayei - composer and one of the INMUAS founders.

Armin shares a lot about his path as a musician and composer and the process of composing - in general and of this piece, that he considers rather intuitive. The composer explains about the connections between his pieces, Iranian folklore and other arts such as poetry, that inspire him. In the interview hosted by Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, Armin shares more about his Clarinet Quintet written in 2009 and how his music has evolved since then.

At 45:20 you can also hear the piece, played by:
Peter Joyce - clarinet, Sarvin Hazin -violin, Eirini Krikoni -violin, Loredana Apetrei -viola and Namdar Majidi -violoncello.

Producer: Roberta Lazo Valenzuela
Music mastering: Stephan Sobanov
Post-production: Florin Gorgos
Cover Design: Lilia Kirilova

Link to Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BqHUqRqsoAf80NeTk8myp?si=manWsDmoTLKWfbeLYcaMfQ

Why did the composer Nava Hemyari named her piece "Euthanasia", what is her opinion about graphic notation and what is abstract - you can hear this and many more interesting facts and stories in our 7th Episode of INMUAS Soundpost. Nava, originally from Iran and living in Vienna for 10 years, is a composer and also singer of contemporary music. The Interview with Nava is made by Roberta Lazo Valenzuela and the piece "Euthanasia" is played by Sarvin Hazin - violin, Eirini Krikoni - violin, Loredana Apetrei - viola and Namdar Majidi - violoncello. Enjoy the new episode of INMUAS Soundpost on Spotify, Anchor, Apple podcasts and many more - stay tuned for the next one!

🎶 Link for Spotify -
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3hM8183p7tkwE2MwQBdn8t?si=64d26777ce3d4311&nd=1

Post-production: Stepan Sobanov Producer: Florin Gorgos, Roberta Lazo Valenzuela
Cover Design: Lilia Kirilova

You can listen to the piece “Evening, night, morning” by the Austrian composer Oskar Gigele and an interview with him in our new episode of INMUAS podcast. Roberta Lazo Valenzuela hosts the interview, in which Oskar shares interesting insights into his new piece – its idea, structure and the process of composing. The piece is originally written as 3 songs for voice and piano and then arranged for clarinet and string quartet*, as it is recorded in our podcast. In the new episode of INMUAS Soundpost Oskar reveals what is important for him in composing and expressing himself in general, as well as his thoughts on vocal music and many different musical genres.

INMUAS soundpodsts are online on many platforms such as Spotify, Anchor, Apple and others – make sure to subscribe and follow us on social media to stay tuned for our next episodes.

Link to Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5y48Y4WDGCFJSKBtubBs2e?si=WjZMz4ioRDmS1ELTYjcjDQ

*“Night“ arranged by Armin Sanayei

Sarvin Hazin – violin
Eirini Krikoni – violin
Loredana Apetrei – viola
Peter Joyce – clarinet
Namdar Majidi – violoncello

Post-production: Stephan Sobanov
Producer: Florin Gorgos
Cover Design: Lilia Kirilova

In the new episode of “INMUAS” soundpost you can hear the piece “La spada di Damocle” of the composer, conductor and clarinet player Peter Joyce. In the soundpost, he explains the story behind this piece, what inspired him, the reason he chose this name and many more interesting stories about masterclasses and musical experiences, that Peter shares. This episode is hosted by Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, produced by her and Florin Gorgos and the music post-production is made by Stepan Sobanov.

Peter Joyce is an active composer, conductor, clarinet and saxophone player. The ensembles and projects he takes part in present different kinds of music – from jazz and classical to contemporary music.

The soundpost is available on numerous platforms such as Spotify, Anchor, Apple podcast and more, link to Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nAv2kG9iQBk6oN1AEg6DZ?si=o-fvshQmQXag-CAg7Mos4Q&nd=1

Peter Joyce

Played by:

Sarvin Hazin – violin
Eirini Krikoni – violin
Loredana Apetrei – viola
Peter Joyce – clarinet
Namdar Majidi – violoncello

Host: Roberta
Roberta Lazo Valenzuela

Producers: Roberta Lazo Valenzuela

Florin Gorgos

Post-production: Stepan Sobanov

Cover Design: Lilia Kirilova

Photo of yesterday's wonderful INMUAS concert at 'Porgy & Bess' Vienna - a great performance by Sarvin Hazin (violin), Eirini Krikoni (violin), Loredana Apetrei (viola), Namdar Majidi (violoncello) and Peter Joyce (clarinet).

We heard pieces by Peter Joyce, Armin Sanayei, Oskar Gigele, Nava Hemyari and our winners at 'Call for scores' 2021 - Johnny Macmillan and Carol Robinson, who specially came to Vienna for the concert.
We enjoyed the concert a lot and want to thank everyone, who came to the concert and supported us!
Stay tuned for our next events! 🎶

We are very happy to invite you to the INMUAS Concert on October 11th 2021 at 19h in "Porgy & Bess" Jazz and Music club in Vienna

You can hear the following pieces:

Armin Sanayei — Clarinet Quintet
Carol Robinson — Forest Gazing II
Florin Gorgos — Interlude
Johnny Macmillan — String Quartet No. 3
Nava Hemyari — Euthanasia
Oskar Gigele — Evening, Night, Morning - arranged for clarinetquintet
Peter Joyce — The Sword of Damocles

Played by:

Sarvin Hazin - violin
Eirini Krikoni - violin
Loredana Apetrei - viola
Peter Joyce - clarinet
Namdar Majidi - violoncello

Looking forward to seeing you there! 🎶

Watch today INMUAS Streaming at 19:30 CET on Youtube 🎶

m.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ugjA2M_dQ&feature=youtu.be

Program:

Roberta Lazo Valenzuela: Rosemary chicken and potatoes for dinner

Armin Sanayei: String Quartet Nr. 1

Philipp Manuel Gutmann: Seacoloured lightbellsounds

Christoph Stuhlpfarrer: Quartet for Strings

Dimitri Shostakovich: String Quartet Nr. 7

Performed by:

Oliver Leonhard Bailey Dyb - violin
Sarvin Hazin - violin
Michalina Matias - viola
Namdar Majidi - cello
Sarah Broeter - voice

You can watch INMUAS Streaming on August 16th 19:30 CET on Youtube, link soon in bio.

Program:
Armin Sanayei: String Quartet Nr.1

Philipp Manuel Gutmann: Seacoloured lightbellsounds

Christoph Stuhlpfarrer: Quartet for Strings

Roberta Lazo Valenzuela: Rosemary chicken and potatoes for dinner

Dimitri Shostakovich: String Quartet Nr. 7

Performed by:
Oliver Leonhard Bailey Dyb - violin
Sarvin Hazin - violin
Michalina Matis - viola
Namdar Majidi - cello
Sarah Broeter - voice

We are very happy to announce the winners of "INMUAS Call for scores 2021" - the composers, whose pieces will be performed on October 11th 2021 at "Porgy & Bess" in Vienna. After receiving more than 40 scores from all over the world, we would like to congratulate:

Carol Robinson

Johnny MacMillan

We are looking forward to hearing your pieces in October! 🎉🎶

Porgy & Bess

Eric Ziegelbauer, born in Vienna in 1997, grew up in a musical family and was in contact with the sound of Austrian Brass-Music from an early age. After these musical beginnings he listened to a CD with the music of Louis Armstrong and decided to be a trumpet player. His teachers include Josef Wagner, Johannes Hötzinger, Bernhard Pronebner, Gerhard Stockhammer and Josef Burchartz. Besides trumpet, he also learned to play the piano, self-taught at first and later on with lessons from his mother Ursula Ziegelbauer and Kaori Nishii.

Over the years, he played trumpet and piano in many genres, including orchestral music, big band, jazz, chamber music, contemporary music, pop, church music, improvised music for theatre shows and many more.

After finishing school and doing his civil service as a paramedic, he began to study composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Axel Seidelmann (2017-2019) and Michael Jarrel (2019-present). In 2019, he also began to study trumpet with Bernhard Pronebner at the same university.

Eric Ziegelbauer ́s compositions have been performed by several ensembles and soloists, such as “Ensemble ISOLISTI” (Antwerp) and “Chorus Alea” (Vienna).

His music is fresh, emotional, unpredictable and warm. As a composer, he addresses the following questions: Is it necessary to show the ugly side of the world in music? How can one create a new kind of “tonal gravity”? Where are the borders of so-called “musical genres/styles”? What moves people in a globalized, 21st century world?

Photo credit: Issa Heliz and Atefeh Taher

Cansu Özdamar was born in 2000 in Izmir (Turkey). At the age of five she got her first piano lessons and went to Dokuz Eylül University State Conservatory in 2011, where she studied with Prof. Ece Sözer. Cansu attended masterclasses of the pianists Emre Yavuz, Emre Şen, Muhiddin Dürrüouglu, Gülsin Onay, Özgür Aydin, İdil Biret, Ilya Kondratiev, Johann Schmidt, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Prof. Roland Batik, Prof. Thomas Kreuzberger and Prof. Doris Adam.

Cansu has been working together with orchestras such as Olten Philharmonic Orchestra (in 2016) and Izmir Symphony Orchestra (in 2018 she performed the solo-part of „Le Carnaval des Animaux“). Moreover, she regularly gave recitals in her hometown Izmir and has been an active performer in Austria since 2018.

Cansu studied piano (Klavier Konzertfach) with Prof. Ralf HEIBER at Haydn Konservatorium Eisenstadt for two semesters. She was the only pianist awarded by "Women Stars of Tomorrow", a talent program, which took place as part of the 48th Istanbul Music Festival of IKSV (Istanbul Culture and Art Foundation). The pianist has won awards in international competitions (2017,2021). Since 2019 she has been studying Piano Performance and Piano IGP (Instrumental Pedagogy) with Prof. Doris Adam and Prof. Thomas Kreuzberger (Team-Tesching) at Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien.

We are proud to announce, that two of the "InMuAs" founders - Oskar Gigele and Armin Sanayei - are now composers, officially published by Universal Edition.

The first two pieces by Oskar Gigele, that have already been published, are „Er liebt sie“ for voice and guitar and „Kleine Klavierstücke“ for piano solo. Soon to follow is the song cycle „Ewigkeit“ (engl. „Eternity“) for soprano and piano.

Armin's published piece "Darabad" for trombone, string quintet and percussion has been written during the Autumn 2020 and spring of 2021.

"This piece is fascinating to me in different aspects, but the deepest one is the way of transfiguring Iranian musical elements and art" - reveals Armin about his published piece.

You can listen to their pieces in their soundclouds and browse through their sheet music on the Universal Edition Website! (Links are in their bios and our website)

Photo: Lisa Kainzbauer

Anete Liepina was born in Latvia. She sang her first role in the Latvian State Opera at the age of 14, it was in Benjamin Britten's opera "Noye'sFludde", where she sang a role of Gossip Girl. In 2011 she went to Vienna and studied operetta at the MUK with Prof.Wolfgang Dosch, and singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with univ. prof. Annamaria Rott and Viktoria Grois. Since then she has appeared on the stages of the "Herbsttage Blindenmarkt" in various performances, most recently in "Boccaccio" as Beatrice. She sang the role of Laura in "Bettelstudent", the role of Anina in "Eine Nacht in Venedig" and the role of Rita in Paul Hertel's worldpremiere "Die Rose des Kaisers" in Strasshof, Baden, Wiener Neustadt and in Vienna. Also in Vienna she sang the roles of Maria in "West Side Story", Gretel in "Hansel and Gretel" as well as Pamina in "Magic Flute", Gianetta in "E'lisir d`amore" and Musetta in "La Boheme". In summer 2017 Anete Liepina sang the role of the Stasi in Emmerich Kalman's "Die Csardaschfürstin" at the Kittseer Festival. In 2018 she toured Europe with Emmerich Kalman's operetta "Countess Mariza" in the role of Lisa and in 2019/20 with Johan Strauss'operetta "The Bat" as Adele.

Dipl. -Ing. Lilia Kirilova is a visual artist and musician based in Vienna. She is responsible for InMuAs digital and visual presentations in Digital and Social Media. As a musician, Lilia is educated and plays in Austria, Germany and Bulgaria. Her main goal is to express herself through art.

Lilia graduates with her master degree of Digital Design at “Fachhochschule St.Pölten”, Austria in 2020. She is currently working as a graphic designer and social media manager and has taken parts in many visual and photography projects for different people, organizations and brands. Her specializations are photography, graphic design and web design. Lilia's approach to design is aesthetic, simplistic and bold and her education includes not only the creative subjects Design and Photography, but also Marketing, Branding and Programming. In her work, Lilia tries to capture and show the best version of people and things. Her inspiration comes from different arts, people and travelling around the world.

As a musician, she graduates at the National Music School “L.Pipkov” in Sofia, Bulgaria and continues her studies an ''Hochschule für Musik Saar'' (Saarbrücken, Germany), doing her last semester of viola studies as Erasmus semester at the ''Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien'' (Vienna, Austria).

Lilia has played in many concerts (orchestral and chamber music), masterclasses, recordings, festivals and has been part of orchestras such as Webern Orchester (2018), Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (2019), Norden Orkester (2015, 2016, 2018).
She has taken part in concerts and tours in Musikverein (Vienna), Berliner Philharmonie, Kölner Philharmonie, Danish National Radio Hall (Copenhagen), Royal Concert Hall (Stockholm), Concertgebouw (Brugge), Sibelius Hall (Helsinki), Harpa Hall (Reykjavik) and other halls in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and China.

Andrej Vesel is an advanced university student of orchestra conducting by Johannes Wildner, choral conducting by Alois Glaßner and correpetition by Andreas Henning at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

He spent the academic year 2019/2020 as an Erasmus+ student at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatorio in Milano, orchestra conducting by Vittorio Parisi, choral conducting by Nunzio Scibilia and correpetition by Umberto Finazzi.
Vesel conducted his debut in 2017 in Vienna Konzerthaus with Ton der Jugend Symphonieorchester Wien and with pianist Andrei Korobeinikov. In the same hall with the same orchestra, he conducted a concert in 2018 with pianist Ioan-Dragoş Dimitriu, with whom he founded the mentioned orchestra.

Andrej worked at two opera festivals in Austria. As a studienleiter for the Magic Flute at the Oper Burg Gars Festival, 2017 also a musical assistant for The Barber of Seville at the jOPERA Festival in Schloß Tabor in 2018. In 2019, he was invited to conduct a gala charity concert in Slovenia, with his orchestra and tenor Aljaž Vesel.

In March 2021 in Vienna, he recorded Vivaldi's Concerto for Flautino with Sarah Pascher and musicians from Volksoper and Tonkünstler Orchestra.
In 2018 he was chosen to conduct at Aurora Music Festival in Stockholm, mentored by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, as well as at the Svetlanov - Universe Festival in Moscow, mentored by Alexander Vedernikov. In 2019 he conducts at Uroš Lajovic's Masterclass in Plovdiv Opera and in Milan at Ricardo Chailly's Masterclass of Puccini's Tosca. In 2020 he conducts at opera workshops in Orvieto, Italy, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and Puccini's Madama Butterfly. He also conducted Mahler's 5. symphony at Marin Alsop's Masterclass. In 2021 he conducted Beethoven's 5. symphony with Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Konzerthaus at Masterclass. He is chosen to work with Peter Eötvös and Gregory Vajda in Budapest as a part of a Masterclass of Contemporary Music Foundation.
As a pianist, he graduated piano at the Zagreb Music Academy and won the special Rector's Award in 2011 for the promotion of croatian music, and the 1st prize at the 51st Croatian Competition of Chamber Ensambles 2013.

Stepan Sobanov studied composition and music theory between 2015 - 2017 and has been studying media composition since 2017, both at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
He was born in Novosibirsk in 1993 and raised in Vienna, where he lives ever since. Stepan had the privilege of writing new music for the big band "Nouvelle Cuisine", the Taiwanese "C-Camerata Taipei" ensemble, the principal violist of the Vienna Philharmonic, Christian Frohn, as well as other ensembles and solo artists.
In 2018 Stepan Sobanov won the Univision Song Contest with his song "Those Memories", sung by Marcharie. He was also a finalist at the Vienna Film Music Award 2020 with his scoring of the "Caviar" film sequence by Elena Tikhonova. Stepan produced music for the video game Tilt Pack, additional music for the TV series "Tatort Borowski", and the singers Polly Roel and Marcharie. Stepan was able to deepen his musical knowledge thanks to the composition master class at the Academy for Contemporary Music Lucerne and various workshops, including with Georg Friedrich Haas and Alexandre Desplat. The practical know-how was further improved in the form of internships at Igudesman&Joo and MG Sound Studios

We are pleased to announce an open call for scores for our second concert in Vienna on October 11th 2021. We invite composers to send in their works to the following e-mail address:
[email protected]

requirements:

Duration: 6’ - 12’
Instrumentation: string quartet (2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello) and clarinet are available; composers can write for any combination of these instruments. (min. three).
Electronics are not available.

For the application, please send the score (parts not necessary), CV and an artistic resume.

The selected pieces will be performed at the concert on October 11th. They will also be published in the association's podcast series (SoundPost) in Spotify, Ancor, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Castbox, Google Podcasts …
As our association continuously strives to invigorate contemporary music, the chosen pieces from the call for scores will be included in our future programs and performances.

Deadline: 1st August 2021

Nava Hemyari studied electroacoustic composition from 2012 to 2017 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW), practicing for the most part algorithmic composition, and, thereafter, has been composing in new arrangements. During the latter period she wrote pieces for organ, which Wolfgang Kogert performed it at Wiener Hofburgskapelle and ORF Radiokulturhaus.

In 2015 Nava started experimenting with her voice – rather a high soprano.

She wrote some pieces for it and performed them and also sang in several performances of works of her colleges and of other composers. What she earlier had used to find most delightful about music and its apprehension was the inherently speculative nature of it. Void of language and visuals, music allows far more varied interpretations than artistic works dependent on anything beyond sound, equally for lack thereof altogether, for being admitted as a blank presence. Having several times performed her pieces and seen them performed by others in front of an audience, she newly found it charming to think of utilizing the two others for more concrete artistic ideas, looking for more concrete influences on the audience. Along with writing songs, Nava has been for a while using text as a formal structure for algorithmic compositions, seeking sound colours conceptually fitting the text. She has also independently written and directed three short films and a music video. Nava has been admitted to the Viennese Film Academy and the University of Fine Arts in Vienna and is pursuing her work in a vaster medium.

Nava's pieces and installations have been performed in VLAK gala, Wiener Konzerthaus, Echoraum, Salzburge Künstlerhaus, Schoenberg Center and ORF Funkhaus.