21 Jan 2027 ・ 20:00 ・ ARTist's
HEDDA (new program with works from B. Gander, N. Hemyari, K. Lang, M. Osojnik, P. Jakober, J. Purgina)
Sophia Goldiger-Koch (violin/viola) and Klaus Haidl (guitars/lutes) can look back on a long and shared musical career in the field of contemporary music. Both have performed with renowned ensembles and as soloists and are regularly invited to premiere works. In 2019, they launched the Hedda project.
The HEDDA project is dedicated to the development, maintenance and performance of contemporary chamber music with simple and clear principles:
-) To play the current music of our time.
Only music that was specially composed for this project in the 21st century will be interpreted.
-) Maintaining the musical language of our time.
Only acoustic chamber music is played. The composers are asked to write for purely acoustic instrumentation and pay special attention to the subtleties of sounds and the tonal language of the 21st century.
-) To maintain the format of chamber music.
The project is dedicated to maintaining chamber and house music in the traditional sense. The small / mobile line-up enables the project to give concerts almost everywhere and thus bring the music of our time back to the places where we live and directly to people. The language, communication and gestures of the music of the 21st century should be made directly tangible for people again.
For the duo’s first program studies in intimacy, the composers Peter Ablinger, Hannes Dufek, Tamara Friebel, Susanna Gartmayer, Veronika Mayer and Gunter Schneider were invited to share their thoughts about the chamber music of our time.
For the first program, “Studies in Intimacy,” the composers Peter Ablinger, Hannes Dufek, Tamara Friebel, Susanna Gartmayer, Veronika Mayer, and Gunter Schneider were invited to reflect on the chamber music of our time. “Studies in Intimacy” premiered in 2020 as part of Wien Modern and has since been performed internationally.
For the next program, composers Bernhard Gander, Nava Hemyari, Peter Jakober, Klaus Lang, Maja Osojnik, and Julia Purgina have been commissioned to write new music for viola and theorbo.
The world premiere of the program has been scheduled and confirmed for November 2026 with Wien Modern and the Alte Schmiede Wien.
Sophia Goidinger-Koch (1987), lives in Vienna and works as a freelance musician in contemporary and improvised music.
Ms. Goidinger-Koch is violinist and violist of Studio Dan. She is also cofounder of strings&noise (with Maiken Beer) and Hedda (with Klaus Haidl). She is a frequent guest with many other ensembles and orchestras including Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Schallfeld and Ensemble Phace.
She has had the opportunity to work with musicians and composers including Vinko Globokar, Michel Doneda, Elliott Sharp, Gunter Schneider, Burkhard Stangl, Renald Deppe, Frank Gratkowski, Clemens Wenger, Maja Osojnik, and Daniel Riegler; and she has attended masterclasses and workshops with Christian Wolff, Pierluigi Billone, Francesco Filidei, Georg Friedrich Haas, Ernst Kovacic as well as with Klangforum Wien.
Ms. Goidinger-Koch has played numerous concerts in Austria and abroad. Highlights have included the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, Porgy&Bess, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburger Festspiele, Kampnagel Hamburg, Zappanale Bad Doberan, and EXPO Mailand (2015).
She studied violin and viola at the Mozarteum Innsbruck with Christos Kanettis, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Univ.-Prof. Thomas Fheodoroff. 2015 she graduated with honors from „Performance Practice in Contemporary Music” with Klangforum Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
Website Sophia
Klaus Haidl, Born and raised in the idyllic Woodquarter, he was dominated from a young age by a great interest in art of all kinds and media. After a short excursion into the subject of human medicine, he decided to pursue an academic career as a musician. Jazz and popular music (with Wolfgang Wendlinger) was followed by contemporary classical music (with Dr Gunter Schneider) and then in turn early music (with Dr Luciano Contini). During his studies he gained a lot of experience as a lutenist, guitarist, arranger, composer and teacher. He gives concerts with various ensembles and orchestras in the fields of old, new, improvised and jazz music. Working with contemporary composers is just as much a part of his artistic work as researching and transferring historical manuscripts and working on interdisciplinary projects (literature / film / performance / theater / music).
Klaus Haidl has won various international competitions and awards in the fields of music and film.
Concerts as part of Radio Ö1, Days of New Music Donaueschingen, SWR, SR2, Impuls-Academy-Graz, Klangforum Wien, Jazzwerkstatt Wien, Wiener Festwochen, Wien Modern, Jeunesse, Progy & Bess Wien, Studio Dan, Dommusik St.Pölten, Barockfestival St Pölten, Parque del Sol Festival, The Small Symposium, New Music St.Ruprecht….
Collaboration with Bernhard Lang, Maja Osojnik, Arturo Fuentes, Manuela Kerer, Michael Niavarani, Michael Posch, Thomas Wimmer, Philipp Tröstl, Renald Deppe, Dimitrios Polisoidis, Bernd Fröhlich, Sergio Azzolini, Vinko Globokar, Burkhard Stangl, Isabelle Duthoit, Hannes Löschel, Mirjam Jessa, Wolfgang Schlag, Gotthold Schwarz, Daniel Riegler, Vincent Pongracz, Michael Öttl, Ingrid Eder, Judith Ferstl, Manu Mayr….
Website Klaus
XENOFOX
Olaf Rupp – electric guitar
Rudi Fischerlehner – drums
Actually, it’s just guitar and drums, but it sounds like a whole world. This is mainly due to the complex polyphony, with which the two, without much electronics constantly move on several levels at once. You don’t have to follow every path to its end and yet new synapses connect here. These complex layers join even the simplest structures into a hypnotic overall sound.
Over the last 30 years, Olaf Rupp consistently has acquired a more and more spectralistic irreverence: for him everything is sound. This makes the fingerboard become a huge pool of sound, as it is not only open to electronic musicians, from whom this conception of material originates. Rudi Fischerlehner’s form-language circles like a polymetric vortex around a center without sticking to it. On the contrary, these elliptically asymptotic drum loops keep shooting new things into orbit.
Xenofox has existed since 2014 and is documented on numerous releases, most recently on the album “The Garden Was Empty”. Concert invitations have taken the band to A L’Arme Festival Berlin, Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg, Lydfestival Aarhus and the Free Music Forum in Vienna, among others.
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Eigentlich ist es nur Gitarre und Schlagzeug, aber es klingt wie eine ganze Welt. Das liegt vor allem an der komplexen Mehrstimmigkeit, mit der sich die beiden, ohne viel Elektronik ständig auf mehreren Ebenen gleichzeitig bewegen. Man muss nicht jeden Weg zu Ende gehen und dennoch verbinden sich hier neue Synapsen. Diese Vielschichtigkeit fügt auch die einfachsten Gebilde zu einem hypnotischen Gesamtklang zusammen.
Olaf Rupp hat sich in den letzten 30 Jahren immer konsequenter eine spektralistische Respektlosigkeit erarbeitet: für ihn ist alles Klang. So wird das Griffbrett zu einem riesigen Klangpool, wie er nicht nur den elektronischen Musikern offensteht, von denen diese Materialauffassung herkommt. Rudi Fischerlehners Formsprache kreist wie ein polymetrischer Vortex um ein Zentrum, ohne daran festzukleben. Im Gegenteil: diese elliptisch asymptotischen Drumloops schießen immer wieder Neues in die Umlaufbahn.
Xenofox besteht seit 2014 und ist auf zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen dokumentiert, zuletzt auf dem Album “The Garden Was Empty”. Konzerteinladungen führten die Band unter anderem zum A L’Arme Festival Berlin, Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg, Lydfestival Aarhus und zum Free Music Forum in Wien.
