Studio Dan

Way back on our debut double album, “Creatures & Other Stuff,” we started playing with the idea of our musical creations as breathing animals unto themselves. Whether fully-notated, improvised, or a combination of the two, our musical creatures take on a life of their own.
On that note, we’re calling our brand-new concert series “More Creatures & Other New Stuff,”and allowing our ensemble to explore all of its many creature selves. We’re playing four concerts at Porgy & Bess in Vienna in June, which will include pieces by American composers which are rarely heard in Vienna. We’re also performing several pieces by the Austrian-Canadian composer Caitlin Smith, who joined our artistic direction team in 2015.

Festival 2018:

12.6. - mixed5
Ig Henneman - Solo Song for Violin: In the Storm of Roses (2014)
Christof Ressi - batsu gemu I (2017)
Matthew Shlomowitz - Fast Medium Swing (2008)
Sam Pluta - Broken Symmetries (2011-12)

19.6. - Studio Dan Horns
Viola Falb - Neues Werk (2018) - Auftrag des Ensembles Studio Dan
Christof Ressi - game_over
Daniel Riegler - Fanfare IV (2017)
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati - Multiple 4 (1965)

26.6. - Solo Percussion
John Cage - 27′ 10.554″ for a percussionist (1956) - Ausschnitte
Marina Poleukhina - Q (2010)
Thierry de Mey - Silence must be (2002)
Caitlin Smith - Administrator (2018) - Auftrag des Ensembles Studio Dan

4.7. - String Quartet
John Zorn - Cat O'Nine Tails (1988)
Christof Ressi - GIF Frenzy - version for string quartet, sounds and interactive live-video (2018)
Fausto Romitelli - Natura morta con fiamme per quartetto d'archi ed elettronica (1991)

12.7. - Big Studio Dan
Pierre Jodlowski - Drones (2007)
Christof Ressi - Neues Werk (2018) - Auftrag des Ensembles Studio Dan
Johannes Lauer - Neues Werk (2018) - Auftrag des Ensembles Studio Dan
Elisabeth Harnik - Neues Werk (2018) - Auftrag des Ensembles Studio Dan

Festival 2016:

Musik by Cornelius Cardew, Earle Brown, Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Steve Lehman, Christoph Walder, Laurie Anderson, Vincent Pongracz, Sixtus Preiss, Nika Zach, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Caitlin Smith und Katharina Klement