Dedicated to bringing adventurous new music to Tirol, the annual Klangspuren Schwaz Festival is in its 30th year in 2023. Apart from performances of leading ensembles, it offers instrumental workshops for students of all ages.
Since its foundation in 1994, the Tirol Festival for New Music has become one of the most refreshing, innovative and comprehensive festivals of its kind. The proven concept to combine international high-level contemporary music with local customs is the foundation of its programming.
In the year 2023, the Tirol Festival for New Music will take place from September 7 to 24, 2023 under the direction of Tirol-native composer, musician, and music curator Christof Dienz. The 30th anniversary of the Klangspuren Festival is revolving around the theme of “Preview – Review”. These two poles act as the subtext that puts individual concerts as well as the past and present in dialogue with each other. The focus of this 30-year anniversary is not a nostalgic look back at many years of concert programming at Klangspuren but rather the critical examination of the past and the exploration of a present marked by pervasive and crisis-fraught change. The festival responds to this with great diversity, openness, curiosity, a cooperative attitude and above all on a musical and aesthetic level. Since the festival’s founding, the idea has always been that, beyond merely presenting contemporary music, a festival should offer a space for encounters, education, exchange and new experiences.
In addition to performances of leading ensembles, the festival will offer music and composer workshops, concerts, and more. Klangspuren Schwaz successfully realized the new academy "Future Lab" for the first time last year, which will be based on two pillars in 2023: The “Composers Lab” offers young composers space for creative contemplation and reflection through interaction with experienced composers. This year Chaya Czernowin and Klaus Lang will be working with the participants to rehearse the pieces they have composed especially for the Schallfeld Ensemble, the 2023 ensemble in residence. The second pillar of the Klangspuren Academy’s “Future Lab” is named “konsTellation plus” and was established in cooperation with the State Conservatory of Tyrol as a platform to provide highly talented musicians with continued education and professional development.
The countdown for the festival and “Future Lab” will kick off in early July with its “prelude”, in which an internationally renowned ensemble will work with young musicians to rehearse a multimedia art event that will be performed for a young audience.
Even in its 30th anniversary year the festival remains true to its time-tested principles: openness and focus, present perspective and traditional ties, international scope and local embeddedness.
Program
Thursday, September 07, 2023
Anniversary Concert 30x Klangspuren Schwaz 1994–2023
Friday, September 08, 2023
Tirol Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck
Saturday, September 09, 2023
The Young Gods
Sunday, September 10, 2023
How it was „Oradour – Memories of Memories“
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Klaus Lang & Rossetti Players
Monday, September 11, 2023
Schallfeld Ensemble
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Sophie Schafleitner & Krassimir Sterev
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Karin Hellqvist
Friday, September 15, 2023
Motus Percussion
Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17, 2023
Lieder Recital: Sing Me Not a Ballad
Sunday, September 17, 2023
2023 Sound Walk
Monday, September 18, 2023
Composers Lab – Final Concert
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
konsTellation plus – Final Concert
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Lukas König
Friday, September 22, 2023
Studio Dan with Lukas König & Ingrid Laubrock
Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24, 2023
Music in the Belly
Since its foundation in 1994, the Tirol Festival for New Music has become one of the most refreshing, innovative and comprehensive festivals of its…
