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Founded in Vienna by the flutist Silvia Gelos and the pianist Gustavo Balanesco as a chamber music ensemble, the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien is a flexible formations for music of the twentieth century.
It focuses in its programmes on composers who are rarely or hardly performed - encompassing former personae non gratae as well as young Austrian talents.
Apart from pieces of the Zweite Wiener Schule and Austrian composers of the younger and youngest generations,
the five young musicians direct their attention to the music from
Mediterranean and Eastern European countries as well as the Far East, China, India, etc.
In recent years, an intense study of Austrian Exile Music 1938-45, and music from Theresienstadt has played an important role.
The ensemble has performed at, among others
- Wiener Musikverein
- Wiener Konzerthaus
- RadioKulturHaus
- Brucknerhaus
- Teatro Colon (Argentina)
- Contemporary Music Center (Ireland)
- University of Southampton (England)
- Estonian Academy of Music (Estland)
- Joventuts Musicals de Barcelona (Spain)
- University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- University of Nevada (USA)
- BEMUS Festival (Serbia)
- Sound Ways Festival (Russia)
- Internationaler Festival of Modern Art (Ukraine)
- Konzertreihe der Tonhalle Düsseldorf (Germany)
- Jewish Music Conference-Festival (Israel)
- Illinois Wesleyan University Festival (USA)
- CrossSound Festival (Alaska)
- Time of Music Festival (Finnland)
The Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien® is a member of the European Conference of Promoters of New Music and is
supported by
- City of Vienna/Culture
- Austrian Foreign Ministry
- Arts Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria
- AKM- Austrian Society of lyricists, composers and music publishers
- Alban Berg Foundation
- SKE -social & cultural support of austro mechana
- Universal Edition
- Doblinger Musikverlag
- Zeitvertrieb Wien Berlin
- Tonos Musikverlag
- Ricordi
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