Music : New Artists Series

About New Artists Series

The ACF’s New Artists Series is a platform for young performers selected partly on account of their connections with Austria but more importantly because of their outstanding calibre. These are not just gifted young musicians. They are distinctive, special and destined for conspicuous careers.

The series is presented by the distinguished music critic, writer and broadcaster, Michael White, who with the ACF selects the artists on the basis of personal auditions and recommendations.  Each concert includes a recent work by a composer resident in Austria or Britain and is introduced by Michael White in conversation with the artists and when possible composers.

Catalina Butcaru, piano

Catalina Butcaru, piano

11 March 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
The Austrian pianist Catalina Butcaru (born in Romania) is one of the outstanding talents of her generation. Her understanding of music paired with supreme virtuosity and a sense of theatre has delighted conductors, musical partners ...
Anna Magdalena Kokits, Piano

Anna Magdalena Kokits, Piano

29 September 2009, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Anna Magdalena Kokits was born in Vienna in 1988, where she was given her first piano lessons by her mother at the age of four. She has been a student of Alejandro Geberovic for years ...
Alex Puhrer (baritone) & Senka Brankovic (piano)

Alex Puhrer (baritone) & Senka Brankovic (piano)

7 July 2009 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
For our summer New Artist recital we’re pleased to have one of the rising stars of the Austrian opera circuit, baritone Alexander Puhrer. Born and raised in Vienna, he went on to study in ...
Stefan Stroissnig

Stefan Stroissnig

9 June 2009, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Regulars at our New Artist Series concerts will recall a superb young piano trio from Vienna who played at Rutland Gate some while back. The pianist with that group was Stefan Stroissnig who, though still ...
Hermine Haselböck & Russel Ryan

Hermine Haselböck & Russel Ryan

7 October 2008, 6.45pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Presented by Michael White On the occasion of the Vienna Café Festival the Austrian Cultural Forum’s New Artist Series will feature a concert turn-of-the-century songs by Zemlinsky, Mahler and Schreker, performed by Austrian mezzo-soprano ...
Mathias Hausmann, baritone & Elena Larina, piano

Mathias Hausmann, baritone & Elena Larina, piano

5 October 2008, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Presented by Michael White. Works by: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Jacques Ibert and Eric Zeisl    

News

Soundings on BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3's Hear and Now recording of the ACF's contemporary music platform Soundings concert at the Wigmore hall on December 12 2009 was broadcast on 27 February 2010. More information on this programme's works and composers at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes.

8th International Composition Competition

In the framework of the 8th International Competition “Franz Schubert and Modern Music” (February 8-16, 2012), the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) organizes an international Competition for Composition. The prime aim of this competition is to create new works for Piano Trio. Click here for more information.

Olga Neuwirth receives Grand Austrian State Prize

The Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has been awarded the highest arts prize by the Austrian government (Grosser Oesterreichischer Staatspreis).  In addition to her compositions Neuwirth also works in Film and Performance Art and has received several other distinguished prizes including the South Bank Show Award for her opera Lost Highway in 2009.

Austrian music giants take Manchester by storm

Three giants of the Austrian music scene, HK ‘Nali’ Gruber, Kurt Schwertsik and Friedrich Cerha, together with the BBC Philharmonic, honour Gustav Mahler in his anniversary year with a season of concerts. The opening concert on Saturday 16 February 2010 premiered Kurt Schwertsik’s Nachtmusiken to a packed hall – and to rapturous and critical applause!

“...the most rewarding part of the concert was its first half - the world premiere of Kurt Schwertsik's Nachtmusiken, the first of the pieces commissioned to stand alongside the Mahler symphonies in the Manchester cycle.” Robert Beale, City Life (Manchester)

Read a Guardian review of the event.