Strobl
Strobl
Biography
Born in Klagenfurt in 1949. Lives as a composer in Vienna.
Various prizes, scholarships and awards.
Numerous performances at home and abroad, at many festivals for new music (e.g.: IGNM World Music Days in Budapest 1986 and Seoul 1997, at the Dresden Days for Contemporary Music, at aspekten Salzburg, at the Festival of Contemporary Music in Bolzano, at Nuova Consonanza in Rome, Klangspuren, Wien Modern and many more), recordings by ORF, Slovenian Radio and Slovenian Television, German Radio and German Television.
From 2002 to 2006, various music theatre projects in collaboration with "neuebuehnevillach".
Highly acclaimed performances of the operas "Sara and her men" (2012) and "HEMMA. Eine Weibspassion" (2017) at the Carinthian Summer Ossiach.
Since 2012 work in progress: Duo espresso&mud (Nina Polaschegg - double bass, Bruno Strobl - electronics).
Since 1977 chairman of the Carinthian branch of the "International Society for New Music" (IGNM) and as such organiser of symposia, concerts, EXPAN...
2008 - 2018 President of the "International Society for New Music" - Austria.
From 1988 to 2009 conductor of the "ENSEMBLE KREATIV", performing many contemporary works in Austria and abroad.
Director of the "Ensemble NeuRaum" (formerly "Ensemble MusikFabrikSüd"), which he founded in 2005
One can find similar aspirations in his compositions and in the nature of his improvisations: an interest in all kinds of sounds, developing new sounds and exploring the possibilities of microtonality.
He wrote works in all categories - from solo pieces to orchestral works and music theatre projects, and he created many electro-acoustic and electronic works.
He has had numerous performances at home and abroad, recordings with ORF, German Radio and TV and Slovenian Radio and TV. His operas "Sarah und ihre Männer" (2012) and "Hemma. A Passion for Women" (2017).
His works are available on more than 20 CDs.
Selection of works
2020
"from the series ..." - Violoncello solo
"aus der Reihe ...2" - for violoncello and ensemble
"Voices" - for 6 female voices
"Sägewerk" - electronic composition
2019
"Sphäre der Wandlungen" - for 2 sopranos, recorders, double bass and percussion
"gleitend" for ukulele
2018
"further, further, further - transformations" - electronic composition
for the Viennese Akusmonium
"ankommen" - for ensemble
"ABE" - for the ensemble airborne extended
2017
"First Meeting" - for di, pipa, harpsichord, accordion
"Gesselkopf" - electronic composition for the Wiener Akusmonium
"Hemma. Eine Weibspassion" - opera for the Carinthian Summer Festival
"Rendetzvous" - for voice and piano
Further information: www.brunostrobl.at
Project selection
Nina Polaschegg and Bruno Strobl - double bass and electronics
A musicologist and music journalist who not only devotes herself to writing about (free) improvisation, but is also active as a double bass player, and a composer whose electronic compositions have a lot in common with the sonority and textures of some free improvisation and experimental music. Bruno Strobl and Nina Polaschegg have been working together as an improvisation duo since 2012. In addition to the pure bowed and plucked bass sound, Nina Polaschegg uses numerous preparations in her playing to rethink the instrument and develop nuances of sound colour. Bruno Strobl works with samples of different origins - some were created as part of his compositional work, others are double bass sounds recorded by Nina Polaschegg using close microphones. Purely played samples are juxtaposed with heavily electronically altered ones, thus forming an equivalent to the multi-dimensional sound of the double bass. The third element is always the room. The two musicians specifically incorporate its architecture, its acoustics, its atmosphere.
