Olga Neuwirth
• 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:
Dreydl (2021) for orchestra
in the realms of the unreal (2009/11) for string quartet
...miramondo multiplo... (2006) for trumpet and orchestra (or ensemble)
Lost Highway (2002-03) music theatre work based on David Lynch’s film
Looking Ahead: new series of orchestral works Tombeau I, WP with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Pablo Heras-Casado (Feb), and _Tombeau II. Hommage à Pierre Boulez _, WP with London Symphony Orchestra (Jan)
"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.