We’re delighted to have been invited to help developing the 50th Jubilee edition of ‘Wiener Meisterkurse’, a renowned institution offering high profile international masterclasses founded by Günther Theuring in 1975, since 2016 under the artistic leadership of Joerg Birhance. The Wiener Meisterkurse have moved in 2024 to a new home, one of Vienna’s iconic art deco sites, the Otto Wagner Areal, as part of a greater attempt by the Vienna Municipality to rennovate the building and fill the entire area around the listed main building with new life. The crown jewel of the 2025 edition will be the start of the ‘Absent Music Festival’, an international chamber music summer festival dedicated to presenting highlights of the classical canon together with masterworks of ‘Absent Music’, music which despite it’s quality hasn’t found it’s way to broader audiences:
The reasons for this are as varied as the fates of the composers concerned: be it due to gender or other cultural marginalisation, displacement, exile or murder, oppression in a totalitarian system, internal exile, early death at the beginning of a promising career, or simply because the works never made it to a performance in a music centre – there are an infinite number of circumstances that have led to history passing over composers and leaving them to oblivion. At the same time, the amount of such undiscovered or underrepresented works is almost incalculable.
The reasons for this are as varied as the fates of the composers concerned: be it due to gender or other cultural marginalisation, displacement, exile or murder, oppression in a totalitarian system, internal exile, early death at the beginning of a promising career, or simply because the works never made it to a performance in a music centre – there are an infinite number of circumstances that have led to history passing over composers and leaving them to oblivion. At the same time, the amount of such undiscovered or underrepresented works is almost incalculable.
