Olga Neuwirth

Olga Neuwirth is one of the world’s leading composers * was a pioneer of audiovisual composition in the 1990s with her cross-genre art * studied in Vienna, San Francisco and Paris * Adriana Hölszky, Tristan Murail and Luigi Nono were important influences on her own music * her artistic outlook has always involved multiple aesthetics, from film, literature, visual art, natural science, and everyday culture * she is particularly focused on the interdisciplinary approach of an “art-in-between” that speaks to all the senses * works with international top-rank artists * has also always raised her voice emphatically in cultural and socio-political matters * received numerous international commissions and awards

Works by Olga Neuwirth include:
locus...doublure...solus (2001) for piano and orchestra (or ensemble)
Lost Highway (2002-03) music theatre work based on David Lynch's film
...miramondo multiplo... (2006) for trumpet and orchestra (or ensemble)
Remnants of songs... an Amphigory (2009) for viola and orchestra

Looking ahead: concluding events in this season's composer feature with Staatskapelle in Dresden (Apr/Jul); French premiere of recent Jasper Johns-inspired work for cello, percussion and orchestra, According to What, with L'Orchestre de chambre de Paris (23 Apr)

"Olga Neuwirth loves a changeable, amorphous sound - a sound whose inner and outer forms are constantly moving" — Stefan Drees

Also visit the Olga Neuwirth website at www.olganeuwirth.com
Compositions before 2000 and between 2009 and 2021 are published with Ricordi.