Linz

Ars Electronica Center Linz
Duration of the exhibition: 01.02. - 31.12.2024, Tue - Sun 10:00 - 17:00

The immersive sound space "Being Anton" at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz offers visitors the opportunity to explore Bruckner's world of sound in a completely new way. After all, when we think of Anton Bruckner, we usually think of his legacy, i.e. Bruckner's music and his sounds. But what soundscape surrounded Bruckner himself? What did he listen to in his everyday life? His life was characterized by many social upheavals triggered by the industrial revolution. The steam engine, for example, which was used in steam trains and steamships, not only changed people's mobility options at an unprecedented pace, but also brought a completely new soundscape into the world.
The installation "Being Anton", developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, allows visitors to immerse themselves in this world of sound that surrounded Anton Bruckner and his contemporaries. The link with examples from Bruckner's musical oeuvre creates points of contact between the two sound worlds.

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 and the Ars Electronica Center

Ars-Electronica-Strasse 1 4040 Linz Details & Tickets

This focus of this project lies on ten women who played a vital role in the life of Anton Bruckner. Linz-based artist Zoe Goldstein spent over a year collecting information in order to compile these biographies. The aim is to cast the spotlgiht on these women and gain an idea of who they were and how they lived. Portraits and biographies are examined allowing us to question the role of women in society then and now. The title of the project links the importance of women to his art and refers to his mother, Theresia Bruckner, who was an important female constant in his life. To give a wider audience access to this topic and generate a discourse, this project has been conceived as a travelling exhibition in Linz, Steyr and Attersee. An additional item of the programme, following the opening in the Brucknerhaus on International Women's Day, is a production with a concert and a reading which will take place in the last month of the presentation at the square of the Mariendom (St. Mary's Cathedral).

11.03. to 01.04.2024 | Linz, Ernst-Koref-Promenade, meadow in front of the Brucknerhaus
02.04. to 30.04.2024 | Linz, Ars Electronica Center
02. 05 to 28.05.2024 | Linz, Arkadenhof in the Landhaus | barrier-free
June & July 2024 | Steyr, Werndlpark, Handel-Mazzetti-Promenade | barrier-free
August 2024 | Attersee | barrier-free
September 20 24 | Linz, Mariendom+

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 with the kind support of the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport and the City of Linz / Linz Kultur

Zoe M. Riess aka Zoe Goldstein | idea, concept, direction

Friedrich Buchmayr (Textual, author of "Mensch Bruckner", St. Florian Abbey), Poxrucker Sisters, Elena Pierini (choirmaster of the Linz State Theatre) | Project participants

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the consecration of St. Mary's Cathedral, the Diocese of Linz will hold a festive service. Bruckner's Mass in D minor is the musical focus of the service.

Admission free

Diocese of Linz - Cathedral Music

Cathedral Choir Linz

Choir of the Conservatory of Church Music Linz

Soloists and Orchestra of the Cathedral Music Linz

Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Cathedral organist

Andreas Peterl | Cathedral conductor

You only turn 200 once! We are celebrating Anton Bruckner, why don't you join us! Visit our walk-in and interactive sound experiences on a guided walk and immerse yourself in the world of Bruckner.

Playing Anton
What is the gigantic, imposing sound of a Bruckner symphony made of? Playing Anton" in Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Centre gives visitors the opportunity to approach this question in a playful manner": Together with other visitors, they can constantly re-arrange the various instrumental groups of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz using the innovative  and interactive technology of Deep Space 8K. Various facets of the musical and compositional perception of Bruckner's music are illuminated and reinforced by impressive 3D visualisations.
For example, "Playing Anton" - which was developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab - allows visitors to immerse themselves visually and musically in Anton Bruckner's impressive world of sound together with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. They can then explore its special features in an interactive manner, not just as listeners in front of the stage, but from right in the middle of the orchestra.

Being Anton
The immersive  "Being Anton" acoustic space at the Ars Electronica Centre in Linz allows visitors to explore Bruckner's world of sound in a completely new way. After all, when we think of Anton Bruckner, we usually think about his legacy, i.e. the music and sounds of Bruckner. But what acoustic space surrounded Bruckner himself? What did he listen to in his everyday life? His life was shaped by many social upheavals triggered by the industrial revolution. The steam engine, for example, which was used in steam trains and steamers, presented the people of that time with new mobility options at an unprecedented pace and also introduced new elements of sound to the world.
The installation "Being Anton", developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, allows visitors to immerse themselves in the world of sound that prevailed in the day of Anton Bruckner and his contemporaries. Linking the latter to examples from Bruckner's creative work generates points of contact between these two worlds of sound.

TOUR
THUR, SAT, SUN and public holidays, as well as during the Upper Austrian school vacations: 15:30 - 16:30
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: € 5.00

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 and the Ars Electronica Center

Ars-Electronica-Strasse 1 4040 Linz

Ars Electronica Center Linz, Deep Space 8K
Duration of the exhibition: 01.02. - 31.12.2024, Tue - Sun at 16:30 each day

What makes up the gigantic, imposing sound of a Bruckner symphony? Visitors can approach this question in a playful way with "Playing Anton" in Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center: Playing together with other visitors, they can constantly re-form the various instrumental groups of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz thanks to the innovative interaction technology of Deep Space 8K. Various facets of the musical and compositional perception of Bruckner's music are illuminated, enhanced by impressive 3D visualizations.
For example, "Playing Anton" - developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab - allows visitors to immerse themselves visually and musically in Anton Bruckner's impressive world of sound together with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and interactively explore its special features. Not just as listeners in front of the stage, but right in the middle of the orchestra.

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 and the Ars Electronica Center

Ars-Electronica-Strasse 1 4040 Linz Details & Tickets

This focus of this project lies on ten women who played a vital role in the life of Anton Bruckner. Linz-based artist Zoe Goldstein spent over a year collecting information in order to compile these biographies. The aim is to cast the spotlgiht on these women and gain an idea of who they were and how they lived. Portraits and biographies are examined allowing us to question the role of women in society then and now. The title of the project links the importance of women to his art and refers to his mother, Theresia Bruckner, who was an important female constant in his life. To give a wider audience access to this topic and generate a discourse, this project has been conceived as a travelling exhibition in Linz, Steyr and Attersee. An additional item of the programme, following the opening in the Brucknerhaus on International Women's Day, is a production with a concert and a reading which will take place in the last month of the presentation at the square of the Mariendom (St. Mary's Cathedral).

11.03. to 01.04.2024 | Linz, Ernst-Koref-Promenade, meadow in front of the Brucknerhaus
02.04. to 30.04.2024 | Linz, Ars Electronica Centre
02. 05 to 28.05.2024 | Linz, Arkadenhof in the Landhaus | accessible for those with impaired mobility
June & July 2024 | Steyr, Werndlpark, Handel-Mazzetti-Promenade | 
August 2024 | Attersee | accessible for those with impaired mobility
September 20 24 | Linz, Mariendom (St.Mary's Cathedral)

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 with the kind support of the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport and the City of Linz / Linz Kultur

Zoe M. Riess aka Zoe Goldstein | idea, concept, direction

Friedrich Buchmayr (Textual, author of "Mensch Bruckner", St. Florian Abbey), Poxrucker Sisters, Elena Pierini (choirmaster of the Linz State Theatre) | Project participants

A ballet set to the music of Anton Bruckner. The libretto, concept and choreography are all from Stoyanova Ivelin accompanied by Petra Slottova on the flute. The dancers are students of the MAESTRO Theatre Ballet School with the support of the ATEM Dance Company.

Stoyanova Ivelin | Choreography, libretto, concept and artistic direction

Petra Slottova | Flute

Pupils and Copagnie ATEM from theMAESTRO Schhol of Ballet| Dancers

Rossitza Ekova Stoyanova | Costumes

Iassen Stoyanov | Stage design

The orchestral hall of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz is transformed to a classroom thriving with passion in which the imagination knows no bounds. Markus Poschner works with young musicians from our country on selected pieces of music. They are all winners of the "Prima la Musica" competition  and have all qualified for the national competition at state level.
The chief conductor illuminates musical angles and highlights points of connection that are of great interest to the audience.

Admission is free, tickets can be purchased before the event from the Visitors' Servicepoint in front of the orchestra hall in the Musiktheater

Markus Poschner | Principal Conductor Bruckner Orchestra Linz

No matter whether you are participating in a rocket flight into space, are in the middle of a waterfall, exploring the forest or crazy dancing: Bruckner's music propels us on a fantastic journey of discovery into nature, into our emotions. But how did other composers do this? Could they do it better? Who can best describe a dangerous encounter or a mountain meadow? Bruckner, Brahms or the famous film composers? Let's enter the fantastic world of music!

Claudio Novati | Conductor

Bruckner Orchestra Linz

Salon Spontaneous Improvisations. Just like Anton Bruckner once did in the past, they invent music on the spot. Just like the jubilarian, they create something from what was previously nothing. The five spontaneous participants may not be sitting at the organ, but they still pull out all the stops: characters, dialogues and song lyrics seem to be created out of thin air, and all of this is combined almost magically before the eyes of the audience to create a piece of music theater.

A unique piece of musical theater, because SALON SPONTAN celebrates its first and last night at the same time in each and every show. So if you don't come, you will have missed it forever: "One Night Only - The most improvised musical in town"!

The Salon Spontan members are: Ursula Anna Baumgartner, Jessica Bannister-Pearce, Jürgen Kapaun, Magda Leeb and Johannes Peham.

Next Bruckner - The concert series curated by Ina Regen
11 concert evenings from January to November 2024 at Posthof Linz
Co-production: Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen

Ina Regen | Curation

Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen, Ina Regen | Co-production

200 years of Anton Bruckner plus 250 years of the Upper Austrian Provincial Library - an impressive even number and a reason to rejoice and celebrate! On three evenings, musicians from the Bruckner Orchestra Linz will perform treasures of chamber music on the stage of the Upper Austrian Provincial Library as part of the "Mosaic" series.

From 4 p.m.: Insights into exquisite old manuscripts and prints
From 5 p.m.: The concert begins in the atrium of the library

Free entrance!

All dates at a glance:
Sat., 20.01.2024
SOUNDSCAPES AROUND BRUCKNER
Works by Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Henri Dutilleux and Antonín Dvořák
The first concert will feature chamber music works from Anton Bruckner's musical environment, such as those by his "pupil" Gustav Mahler, his Viennese counterpart, Johannes Brahms, Henri Dutilleux and his Bohemian contemporary Antonín Dvořák.

Sat., 16.03.2024
BRUCKNER'S SEVENTH!
Works by Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner
Bruckner's large-scale 7th Symphony in the State Library? Hanns Eisler, Erwin Stein and Karl Rankl, all students of Schönberg, make it possible. They have arranged the symphony for less than a dozen musicians. This  interpretation offers a fascinating, transparent view of the masterpiece, preceded by Wagner's prelude to "Tristan and Isolde".

Sat., 11.05.2024
MIXED MOVEMENT
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Albert Roussel, Stefan Wolpe and Michail Glinka
The third concerto is a mixed movement, but here too there are clear links to Bruckner. Beethoven was one of his heroes and role models. Bruckner knew how to follow him in the creation of symphonies like no other in the 19th century. Johann Sebastian Bach, on the other hand, was a logical household deity for the organist, Anton Bruckner.

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 with the Upper Austrian State Library and the "Mosaik" chamber music series by musicians of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz

The Linzer SIngakademie, in collaboration with the abbey's librarian and author, Friedrich Buchmayr, is presenting a special programme devoted to Anton Bruckner with original compositions and anecdotes on Saturday, 11 May 2024 at 17:00 and 19:00. Participants are asked to meet at the rehearsal rooms of the Linzer Singakademie (Linz Singing Academy), formerly known as the  Liedertafel or Sängerbund Frohsinn, for the reading and then walk to the nearby parish church of Linz to listen to the finest a cappella music.

Linzer Singakademie (Singing Academy of Linz)

Alexander Koller | Choirmaster

Friedrich Buchmayr | Author

Bruckner embroidery is a participatory art project in the form of collective embroidery. Participants meet in small groups to embroider a fragment of a Bruckner score.

Everyone is welcome to join in the embroidery! No technical knowledge is required. It's not about embroidering "correctly" but about how everyone does it in their own way: experimental, rough, precise, nervous, wild, calm...

The embroidery meetings take place at various locations in Upper Austria: on a market square, in a music school, in an inn, at a lake, in a private apartment, during a music rehearsal.

While the hands are busy, the conversations can free themselves. Just as the motif continues to be embroidered by all those involved, the stories continue to unfold. Meeting by meeting - note by note - stitch by stitch, the entire embroidery grows as the sum of each individual handwriting and personality.

The embroidery meetings are barrier-free!
Registration requested!

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Cécile Belmont | Artist

This series of lectures will focus on learning and teaching in the life of Anton Bruckner. Torn between art and science,  profession and vocation, theory and practice, six lectures by internationally renowned theorists and musicologists will shed light on this area of tension in the development and teaching career of Bruckner and present new findings in a representative way at the Bruckner University.

Free admission!
Please register here. Registration deadline 7 days before the event.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Prof. Dr. Christa Brüstle (Graz) | Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Norbert Heinel describes Anton Bruckner's career from his beginnings to his great symphonies and also provides musical examples

Admission free! No membership necessary!

Richard Wagner Association Linz

Are you curious about Bruckner? Would you like to dive deeper into the world of the composer and the man himself? Would you like to pass on your own enthusiasm and knowledge?

Take advantage of this entertaining course offering all the music and information from and about Bruckner that it will take to expand your Bruckner horizons.

Number of participants:
The crash course will take place with a minimum of 5 participants and is limited to 25 participants.

Cooperation partners: Institute for the Study of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Balkan Region at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW/IHB) & Palucca University of Dance Dresden.
Concept: A. Lopez Leal (dancer & pedagogue ABPU) | J. Biondi (Professor of Contemporary Dance at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden) | M. Wahlmüller (composer & conductor) | Julia Purgina (Vice-Rector ABPU) | C. Wais (art historian at the Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Admission free!

Links to the dates:
Monday, 24.05.2024,16:00
INFO HERE

Saturday, 25.05.2024, 15:00
INFO HERE

Sunday, 26.05.2024, 14:00
INFO HERE

Anton Bruckner Private University

Dancers | Institute Dance Arts ABPU

Christina Wais | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Michael Wahlmüller | Composer & Conductor

Julia Purgina | Musical Coordinator

José Biondi | Palucca University of Dance Dresden

Annette Lopez Leal | dancer, teacher & choreographer ABPU

To mark the Bruckner Year, the Dommusik (Cathedral Music) will focus on the "Mass in D minor", which premiered in Linz 160 years ago, in its benefit concert for Pro Mariendom. The world-famous "Locus iste", composed for St. Mary's Cathedral, and organ improvisations on the Rudigier organ by Wolfgang Kreuzhuber, are also part of the programme for this concert.

Tickets at:
Online (see link below) or at the Domcenter
Domplatz 1, 4020 Linz,
Tel. 0732/946100, domcenter@dioezese-linz.at

Pro Mariendom - Cathedral Music Linz & Mariendom Linz

Andreas Peterl | Cathedral conductor

Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Cathedral organist

Cathedral Choir Linz

Choir of the Conservatory for Church Music | Conductor: Ewald Donhoffer

Orchestra and soloists of the cathedral music

Contemporary performances from church to church

Contemporary improvisational art in relation to church rituals is the theme of this musical performance. Inspired by the liturgical process, the music of pilgrimages, preludes, text interpretations in the form of a performance, sculptures or pictures and postludes are all brought to life as instant compositions in the respective church spaces. In this way, the team of artists takes Anton Bruckner as theme. A man who, in his day, was much better known as an improviser than as a composer.

Each location has different images, texts and sculptures to offer. These invite viewers to tak the time to interpret these, reflect or remember. The musical/performative pilgrimage is also intended to be participatory. The performance pilgrims can choose Biblical verses or works of art along the way. The dancers and musicians enter into a dialogue with these texts and figures and bring them to life in the shape of music or movements.

- Start 14:30 St. Barbara Chapel on Freinberg: performance, approx. 15:00 Walk to St. Martin's Church.
- approx. 15:30 Performance St. Martin's Church, walk to the Minoriten Church.
- approx. 16:30 Performance Minoriten Church, walk to the Ursuline Church.
- approx. 17:15 Performance Ursuline Church, walk to Martin Luther Church.
- approx. 18:00 Performance Martin Luther Church and the afterglow

Participants
Conception, direction: Ao.Univ.Prof.Mag.art Karen Schlimp (Linz), Kristin Gutenberg - dance (Berlin), György Kurtag jun. - live electronics (Bordeaux), Eva Königer - voice, movement (Vienna), Lea Gisler - viola, Manuela Kloibmüller - accordion, Karen Schlimp - Indian harmonium & piano, Klaus Hollinetz - electronics (Upper Austria).
The performance team consists of musicians from Linz and performers from the CEPI (Central European Improvisers).

General information
The event will take place in all weather conditions. Please bring good shoes and rain protection if necessary. B
The Barbara Chapel (Römerstr. 94) can be reached by taking bus 26 (bus stop Vergeinerstraße or Jägermayrhof) and then walking approx. 10 minutes. Google Maps

Ticket reservations
Admission is free of charge. Please register (numbered tickets) as the number of places is limited.
Tickets ( to determine the number of visitors)

Accessible for those with impaired mobility:
All 3 churches are barrier-free!

Karen Schlimp

Karen Schlimp | conception, direction, piano and others

Kristin Gutenberg | Dance

Györgi Kurtag Jun. | Electronics

Eva Königer | Voice, Movement

Klaus Hollinetz | Electronics

Lea Gisler | Viola

Manuela Kloibmüller | Accordion

The Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Markus Poschner act as a guarantee of  unforgettable Bruckner events that are not only celebrated in Upper Austria, but resonate all over the world - as is underlined by the many prizes and nominations in the pipeline for the complete recordings which are currently in progress. However, nothing can replace a "live" experience. At this concert in the Brucknerhaus, the 3rd Symphony will be performed in its original version. A work commenced in 1872 but only completed in 1873, it did not premiere until 1890 but it did so with success. Following rejection three times by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruckner had previously revised the symphony, which quotes and is dedicated to Richard Wagner, several times. In the Third, Bruckner realised a new symphonic concept in which the development of musical motifs is replaced by a block-like sequence of motif variations. The finale combines a dance melody with a wind chorale, to which Bruckner adds: "The polka signifies the humour and gaiety in the world - the chorale embodies the world's inherent pain and sadness."

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 3 in D minor WAB 103 (1873)

Markus Poschner | Conductor

Bruckner Orchestra Linz

Corpus Christi service of the parish of St. Konrad. The church choir will perform music including works by Anton Bruckner.

Parish of St. Konrad - Froschberg

St. Konrad church choir

Harald Wurmsdobler | Choir master

Maria Lotz | Organ

This series of lectures will focus on learning and teaching in the life of Anton Bruckner. Torn between art and science,  profession and vocation, theory and practice, six lectures by internationally renowned theorists and musicologists will shed light on this area of tension in the development and teaching career of Bruckner and present new findings in a representative way at the Bruckner University.

Free admission!
Please register here. Registration deadline 7 days before the event.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen (Zurich) | Lecturer

The commemorative year of Anton Bruckner serves as an ideal opportunity to hold this year's Police Music Festival in Upper Austria. All nine of the police bands from the provincial police directorates will take part in this sensational festival. On Wednesday, 05.06.2023, the respective provinces will be guests in the different districts and the sound of music will ring out throughout our provice. The following day, on Thursday, 06.06.2023, the main square in Linz will be the venue for a unique highlight when all of  Austria's police bands march into the main square together to take part in a a joint concert. Admission to this major event is, of course, free.

Provincial Police Headquarters of Upper Austria

Main Square 4020 Linz Details & Tickets

With this year's lunch series "Lunch with Bruckner", the StifterHaus invites you to take a look at Anton Bruckner. The focus will be on the Bruckner Year and the associated events in general as well as Anton Bruckner in literature in particular.

StifterHaus

Ankathie Koi | Art develops from skill, say those conservative philistines who can also be found in rock'n'roll every now and again. Nonsense, pop music has argued at the very latest since punk muisc arrived on the scene: What counts are ideas and intuition - and creative ways of implementing them. Ankathie Koi embodies the synthesis of these opposing doctrines.

The musician, who grew up in Upper Bavaria but made Vienna her home a long time ago, is a master of her artistic craft and is as versatile as a chameleon. She also presents her diversity in her new songs - she now sings mainly in German - great cinema is pre-programmed! However, nothing has changed in terms of attitude and sweeping gestures, Ankathie Koi captivates her audience in her usual manner - with a great deal of power and excitement.

Elisa Noa | Elisa Godino and Aaron Hader, alias Elis Noa, describe the act of letting go on their new album "I Was Just About To Leave" in a similarly profound way as on their debut release "What Do You Desire?" launched two years ago. Once again, the two musicians lead listeners on a journey deep into their inner world and invite them to find parallels in their own stories and feelings. Since letting go is not a quick and easy mission, the Viennese electronic soul duo takes the time to explore each step of the process in musical terms and proceeds through the journey of healing with each song, from moments of resistance and pain to acceptance and finally lightness.

Next Bruckner - The concert series curated by Ina Regen
11 concert evenings from January to November 2024 at Posthof Linz
Co-production: Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen

Ina Regen | Curation

Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen, Ina Regen | Co-production

Since February, "Being Anton" and "Playing Anton" at the Ars Electronica Centre have offered an unprecedented immersive experience of Bruckner's music and the world of sound that surrounded him at the time. Find out more about these projects on this evening from Key Researcher & Artist Ali Nikrang (Ars Electronica Futurelab), Norbert Trawöger (Artistic Director Anton Bruckner 2024) and Lydia Zachbauer (Director Anton Bruckner 2024).

Ars Electronica Centre

The state theatre has organised a very special programme for the Bruckner Year 2024: The opera "Der Findling" (The foundling) by Franz Hummel and Susan Oswell, based on a text by Hermann Schneider, will be premiered at Bruckner's longstanding place of work in the Old Cathedral. "Der Findling" is not primarily intended to present the biographical stages of Bruckner's life. Rather, this work is a multi-layered musical-theatrical search for clues about Bruckner.

Linz State Theater

Markus Poschner | Conductor / Musical Director

Lukas Hemleb | Production

Margherita Palli | Stage

Sasha Nikolaeva | Costumes

Luca Scarazella | Video

Bruckner Orchestra Linz

The symphony stands for great orchestral work par excellence - that is certainly the perception of most concert-goers. Although many composers still write symphonies today, it is clear that other forms are being sought for orchestral works. In any case, the "avant-garde" is of the opinion that this form is "backward-looking" and that composers are treading old, well-trodden paths. Does the symphony have a fruitful future or only a great past?

Admission free! No membership necessary!

Richard Wagner Association Linz

Bruckner embroidery is a participatory art project in the form of collective embroidery. Participants meet in small groups to embroider a fragment of a Bruckner score.

Everyone is welcome to join in the embroidery! No technical knowledge is required. It's not about embroidering "correctly" but about how everyone does it in their own way: experimental, rough, precise, nervous, wild, calm...

The embroidery meetings take place at various locations in Upper Austria: on a market square, in a music school, in an inn, at a lake, in a private apartment, during a music rehearsal.

While the hands are busy, the conversations can free themselves. Just as the motif continues to be embroidered by all those involved, the stories continue to unfold. Meeting by meeting - note by note - stitch by stitch, the entire embroidery grows as the sum of each individual handwriting and personality.

The embroidery meetings are barrier-free!
Registration requested!

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Cécile Belmont | Artist

Are you curious about Bruckner? Would you like to dive deeper into the world of the composer and the man himself? Would you like to pass on your own enthusiasm and knowledge?

Take advantage of this entertaining course offering all the music and information from and about Bruckner that it will take to expand your Bruckner horizons.

Number of participants:
The crash course will take place with a minimum of 5 participants and is limited to 25 participants.

The Cathedral organist, Wolfgang Kreuzhuber, and the cathedral music assistant, Gerhard Raab, will perform works by Linz cathedral musicians on the Rudigier organ and choir organ following organ liturgy.

Admission free!

Cathedral Music Society Linz

Cathedral organist Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Choir organ

Gerhard Raab | Rudigier organ

The concert is a joint project of the Institute of Composition, Conducting and Computer Music and the Institute of Keyboard Instruments. The idea is to build a bridge between the music of Anton Bruckner and the new works of the students of composition.

Piano works and songs by Anton Bruckner - new compositions by students of the composition class of Carola Bauckholt in various chamber music formations with the accordion.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Students of the ABPU

Tracing Bruckner's steps, three schools in Ansfelden, Linz and Vienna are the venues where young and very young people have the chance to engage with the musical language of the two-hundred-year-old Mr. Bruckner.
They make the music their very own, giving it their own interpretation: Pictures are painted, collages are made and sounds are transformed into words and poetry.

All of the works completed, will be exhibited at ABC Ansfelden,
The vernissage, to which you are invited, will be on 20 June, 2024 at 19:00.

Accessible for those with impaired mobility:
Telephone
e-mail

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Nina Fountedakis

Anton Bruckner Secondary School Ansfelden

Michael Reitter regional music school | State School Centre for Hearing and Visual Training

Integrative Learning Workshop Brigittenau

This series of lectures will focus on learning and teaching in the life of Anton Bruckner. Torn between art and science,  profession and vocation, theory and practice, six lectures by internationally renowned theorists and musicologists will shed light on this area of tension in the development and teaching career of Bruckner and present new findings in a representative way at the Bruckner University.

Free admission!
Please register here. Registration deadline 7 days before the event.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Prof. Dr. Markus Neuwirth (Linz) | Lecturer

The LONG NIGHT OF THE STAGE will take place for the 11th time on Saturday, 22 June 2024, in Linz. With an average of 100 events at over 20 different venues and 12,000 visitors, it is one of the largest cultural events in the state. Various venues in Linz will host an extensive programme  dedicated to the composer of the year, Anton Bruckner. You can listen to Bruckner, marvel at him and join in! You will find the complete  programme as of the end of May at
www.langenachtderbuehnen.at

Long Night of the Stage Association

Numerous artists from Upper Austria

2024 is the anniversary year of Bruckner and people from Upper Austria, together with musicians from the ABPU, will send an acoustic birthday greeting to Anton Bruckner. People who have a connection to Anton Bruckner through an everyday situation, an activtiy or a specific interest, will be interviewed. Following intensive research and preparation, students of the university course in Music Education will conduct a total of eight interviews and sum up the results in musical collages.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Students of the ABPU

Experts of everyday life

The brass players of the ABPU on historical instruments with the Hard-Choir. In cooperation with the Brass Institute, the Hard Choir and the Schwanthaler Trumpet Consort. The programme mainly comprises choruses by Anton Bruckner, with brass players on original instruments providing the surprisingly homogeneous balance of sound. Due to the unusual instrumentation, these works are performed only very rarely and thus this promises to be an exciting acoustic experience.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Students of the ABPU

Hard-Choir

A house full of music presents itself in a new guise: the versatile musician, Mira Gregorič, pays a visit to Anton Bruckner's musical kitchen. It sizzles, it bubbles and wonderful sounds and melodies can be heard everywhere. What does it take to conjure up this special musical stew? The elements of sound are collected with the audience and young musicians and dancers from the Upper Austrian regional music schools, and "processed" into a fantastic dish of sound.

Brucknerhaus Linz, Upper Austrian State Music School Association, Upper Austrian String Player Association

Pupils from the Upper-Austrian state music schools

Mira Gregorič | Violin, Moderation & Concept

Ida Leidl, Ilja van den Bosch, Anna Dürrschmid, Malina Meier | Concept

The Bruckner Orchestra Linz congratulates its namesake on his milestone birthday and invites you to a big summer night party on Linz's main square with renowned musical "birthday guests" from classical to pop!
A glittering open-air concert experience at the start of the vacations with free admission!

OÖ Theater und Orchester GmbH

Markus Poschner | Conductor

Bruckner Orchestra Linz

Symphonic music affects us without words as does dance. In the former, art is expressed as a sound and in the latter, art is predominantly visible. Approaching Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony, for Compositional transfer inbodied "I ANTON " we worked on a method of translation which should help musical structures to shift from a space filled with sound to a space filled with movement. This performance does not just dance to the music or its mood, rather it repeats its forms even in the physical realm, and even attempts to dance with Anton beyond the unfinished end through the movements which develop from this.

Admission: 19:00
Introduction: 19:30
Performance: 20:00

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 with the kind support of the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport and the City of Linz / Linz Kultur

Silke Grabinger | concept, choreography, dramaturgy, performance

Francesco D'Amelio, Kirin Espana, Tomy Lee Kreninger, Jerca Roznik Novak, Theresa "Ray" Scheinecker | Performance

Gergely Dudás-Simó | Rehearsal management, production management, 2nd cast

Bettina Bakos | Production management

Ludwig Felhofer | Dramaturgy

Bianca Fladerer | Costume design

Sonja Stojanović-Aufreiter | Production team, 2nd cast

Marie Scholze | Production team

TBA | Lighting design

Fabian Rucker, Thomas Wally, Josef Semeleder, Peter Androsch, Remy Ballot | Outside Eye

Anna Buchegger | . ..grew up on a small farm in the Innergebirg region of Salzburg and came into contact with alpine folk music at an early age. Her origins left a formative imprint that intensively shaped her artistic development. Anna brings a breath of fresh air to Austrian folk music - bold and self-determined.

In her music, the singer combines selected traditional elements with contemporary trends and creates a dialogue that links the values of yesterday and the urgencies of today. Her lyrics reflect the harsh reality, packaged in the dialectal speech sound of the Salzburg dialect and embedded in the timeless band sound of the 70s.

The participation in Starmania and the subsequent victory bring her briefly into the spotlight of public life in 2021, but also present her with completely new, unknown challenges. The young Salzburg native decides to continue her artistic journey on her own. A year later, Anna completes her musical studies and at the same time ventures the start of a visionary concept album.

Their mission: to build bridges between familiar tradition and innovation. A conception aimed at the challenge of enveloping Austrian folk music with a contemporary flair while weaving social concerns into the dialectal speech sound of the Salzburg dialect. Their work combines carefully selected traditional elements with contemporary trends to create a dialogue that links the values of yesterday and the urgencies of today.

Anna Mabo | "What Anna Mabo thinks and writes and sings arrives at the listener like a projectile. But such clarity is never at the expense of poetry," writes fellow musician Ernst Molden about Anna Mabo's compositions. As if this statement were part of the program, the singer, poet and director follows up her two albums "Die Oma hat die Susi so geliebt" and "Notre Dame", which were enthusiastically received by the public, with her current, third longplayer "Danke, gut" - the first with a band: It crashes and roars here, the band gives each song what it demands and tells one sound epic after another. At the same time, the songs are quiet, empathetic and uplifting, because "even the Terminator's heart hurts sometimes".

Next Bruckner - The concert series curated by Ina Regen
11 concert evenings from January to November 2024 at Posthof Linz
Co-production: Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen

Ina Regen | Curation

Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen, Ina Regen | Co-production

Anton Bruckner visited the Weilenböck and Lang families in Neufelden several times. He traveled there on the Mühlkreisbahn, which opened in 1888, walked along the Große Mühl and also played the church organ in Neufelden. The Neufelden (1919-1924), Aschach and Ottensheim dams had not yet been built at the time.
In the now massively changed landscape between Neufelden and Linz, the coda from Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, also known as The Romantic, was played on July 7, 2024. However, not as usual, but based on a score by the artist Michael Pisaro-Liu: he has arranged the moving and stirring piece of music for the 90 brass players who will make the Danube between Neufelden and Linz resound in Bruckner's tones. On July 7, 2024, the river and dams will become a listening space.

On 7.7.2024, the river and dams will each become a listening room for around 40 minutes.

16:00 Neufelden dam
18:00 Ottensheim dam
20:00 Donaulände/Brucknerhaus

Accessibility:
Wheelmap

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

HEIM.ART® cultural association

Joachim Eckl | Management & Idea

Michael Pisaro-Liu | Composition

Regional music schools Rohrbach, Schlägl, Neufelden, Lembach, St. Martin, Eferding, Hartkirchen, Ottensheim and Puchenau with the associated branches

Wolfgang Panholzer | Ensemble management dam Neufelden

Thomas Beiganz | Ensemble management dam Aschach

Karl Glaser | Ensemble management Ottensheim dam

Raphael Aichinger | Ensemble Director Donaupark

TONI ON TOUR, a summer tour of the Upper Austrian Children's University with Anton Bruckner. At all locations in Upper Austria, children can immerse themselves in Toni's fascinating world for a day and experience a creative combination of science and music as well as old and new, classical and contemporary musical worlds. TONI, the little explorer, collects musical treasures in Upper Austria and presents a colorful music concert at the graduation in Steyr in August.

Registration: Tuesday, 07.05.2024 from 18:00

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 in cooperation with the KinderUni

KinderUni Upper Austria (supporting organization: Institute for Applied Environmental Education)

Are you curious about Bruckner? Would you like to dive deeper into the world of the composer and the man himself? Would you like to pass on your own enthusiasm and knowledge?

Take advantage of this entertaining course offering all the music and information from and about Bruckner that it will take to expand your Bruckner horizons.

Number of participants:
The crash course will take place with a minimum of 5 participants and is limited to 25 participants.

In this workshop we move together through Anton Bruckner's acoustic walks in Linz with our ears open. We track down sounds that have long since disappeared using various (special) microphones that can make electromagnetic vibrations audible or even record underwater sounds. When our expedition comes to an end, we will summarise our sonic discoveries in short compositions on the computer.

Speaker: Music and sound artist Richard Eigner
Date: 30.07. to 01.08.2024
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
Suitable age: 10-15 years
Optional lunch (+ 1 hour longer incl. supervision)
To bring along: Snack, drink
Deadline for registrations: 17.07.2024

In ESPACE SONORE at domorgelsommerlinz24, Thierry Mechler opens up a multifaceted sound space with music from Bach to Ravel, from Bruckner to Debussy!

Admission:
Adults: VVK € 12,- | AK € 15,- |
Young people and students (up to 27 years): VVK € 8,- | AK € 10,- |
Children (up to 12 years): free

Cathedral Music Society Linz

Thierry Mechler | Rudigier organ

"MYLF - mothers you'd like to flow with" are Mieze Medusa and Yasmo in slam team form. The two veterans of the Austrian poetry slam scene invite you to an evening full of language, rhythm and a change of generations. They will write, rap and speak to Bruckner and inspire laughter, reflection and participation. MYLF meet two young up-and-coming poets, giving us a unique view from every perspective - including the jubilarian!

Next Bruckner - The concert series curated by Ina Regen
11 concert evenings from January to November 2024 at Posthof Linz
Co-production: Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen

Ina Regen | Curation

Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen, Ina Regen | Co-production

Are you curious about Bruckner? Would you like to dive deeper into the world of the composer and the man himself? Would you like to pass on your own enthusiasm and knowledge?

Take advantage of this entertaining course offering all the music and information from and about Bruckner that it will take to expand your Bruckner horizons.

Number of participants:
The crash course will take place with a minimum of 5 participants and is limited to 25 participants.

MEMORIES are the focus of Andreas Etlinger's matinee concert at domorgelsommerlinz24 - with works by Anton Bruckner, Andreas Etlinger and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy!

Admission free!

Cathedral Music Society Linz

Andreas Etlinger | Rudigier organ

Cathedral organist Wolfgang Kreuzhuber shares a passion for improvisation with his predecessor Anton Bruckner - and you can hear that at domorgelsommerlinz24 in BRUCKNER TODAY!

Admission:
Adults: VVK € 12,- | AK € 15,- |
Young people and students (up to 27 years): VVK € 8,- | AK € 10,- |
Children (up to 12 years): free

Cathedral Music Society Linz

Cathedral organist Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Rudigier organ

Alma Teibler offers a KALEIDOSCOPE of organ music from Anton Bruckner to Petr Eben in her matinee concert at her domorgelsommerlinz debut.

Admission free!

Cathedral Music Society Linz

Alma Teibler | Rudigier organ

Musical PORTRAITS of Anton Bruckner, Camille Saint-Saëns and Richard Wagner are drawn by Michaela Aigner in her matinee concert at domorgelsommerlinz24.

Admission free!

Cathedral Music Society Linz

Michaela Aigner | Rudigier organ

Lilo Kunkel sets the musical tone when it's BRUCKNER AT NIGHT! It sounds and swings at domorgelsommerlinz24 in the Mariendom - from Anton Bruckner to Cole Porter!

Admission:
Adults: VVK € 12,- | AK € 15,- |
Young people and students (up to 27 years): VVK € 8,- | AK € 10,- |
Children (up to 12 years): free

Dommusikverein Linz & Mariendom Linz

Lilo Kunkel | Rudigier organ

Are you curious about Bruckner? Would you like to dive deeper into the world of the composer and the man himself? Would you like to pass on your own enthusiasm and knowledge?

Take advantage of this entertaining course offering all the music and information from and about Bruckner that it will take to expand your Bruckner horizons.

Number of participants:
The crash course will take place with a minimum of 5 participants and is limited to 25 participants.

Concert for Bruckner's 200th birthday in Ansfelden. Since 2018, the International Bruckner Festival Linz has begun every year on September 4, the birthday of its namesake. The birthday concert to kick off the festival always takes place in Ansfelden, the place where it all began for Anton Bruckner, where he was born in the servants' quarters of the school building and baptized on the same day in the nearby parish church.

In 2024, the well-wishers could hardly be more prominent: The Cleveland Orchestra, known as the "most European" of the US orchestras, and its chief conductor Franz Welser-Möst from Linz will do the honors and pay tribute to the jubilarian with an open-air performance in the open space between the parish church and courtyard.

Accessibility:
Brucknerhaus

Franz Welser-Möst | Conductor

The Cleveland Orchestra | Conductor

Bruckner Improvised

The Old Cathedral in Linz with its authentic organ is
the best playground to celebrate Bruckner as a master of improvisation,
to celebrate his birthday with this very genre.
Throughout the day, national and international organist personalities will
will bring the original Bruckner organ to life with their improvisations.

An event of the Brucknerbund for Upper Austria

The striking similarity between a recurring theme from Bruckner's Fifth Symphony and a guitar riff by the White Stripes - in their song, the Seven Nation Army - is the godmother of this ten-piece electric guitar ensemble. In this field of tension between high culture, popular culture and avant-garde, the collective dedicates itself to this very riff. In essence, this is less a case of "stealing the stolen" or an act of appropriation. It can be understood in the sense of a recuperation. Experimental sound surfaces meet pointed repetitions of the Bruckner riff in variations and subtle shifts. The result is a a monstrous sound aesthetic, a hybrid of Anton Bruckner, White Stripes and the loud electric guitar symphonist, Glenn Branca.

Another event tip on site:
Compositional transfer inbodied "I ANTON"

Accessibility:
Limited wheelchair accessibility: assistance required in some cases. The dimensions do not or only partially comply with the statutory ÖNORM.

Symphony No.5 Guitar Ensemble

Kristina Hofer | Guitar

Gabriele Kepplinger | Guitar

Leona Sperrer | Guitar

Dominique Berger | Guitar

Lina Gärtner | Guitar

Johanna Forster | Guitar

Andre Zogholy | Guitar

Samy Zogholy | Guitar

Florian Graf | Guitar

Wolfgang Fuchs | Guitar

Christoph Fizl Hehn | Drums

Wolfgang Fuchs | Bass

Marc Reibel | Conducting

The second quantum revolution as a musical spectacle in Linz's Mariendom:

Lasers, mirrors, polarizers, non-linear crystals - an experimental set-up from the high-tech laboratory in the middle of the Mariendom in Linz. Entangled photons - the quanta of light - become conductors and direct Bruckner's Perger Prelude in a way that no human being in the world could.

Two resounding church organs play live and fill the spectacular sound space of the cathedral. BruQner shows us a new view of our reality - a world premiere!

Accessibility:
Limited wheelchair access, some assistance required.

Clemens Wenger | musical direction

Enar de Dios Rodríguez | Artist, visual design

Martin Ringbauer | exp. Physicist, University of Innsbruck

Johannes Kofler | theor. computer science, JKU

Richard Küng | theor. computer science, JKU

Benjamin Orthner | exp. Physicist, TU Vienna

Philipp Haslinger | exp. Physicist, TU Vienna, Project Management

Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Organist

Gerhard Raab | Organist

In the public space in the fall of 2023, WhatsAB will initially be a live event, naturally transient as such, based on an idea by Rainer Zendron and Bernd Preinfalk. A year later, in the fall of 2024, the sound event will have become an installation for an art space.
Conducted by Sigurd Hennemann, an ensemble of about twenty musicians will play a corresponding arrangement of the Andante in E minor from Three Movements for Orchestra, entered in Anton Bruckner's catalog raisonné as number 97. As befits the digitally networked age, the individual musicians are related to each other, but record their respective parts solo at a different Bruckner location. The camera and microphone focus on the musicians without blocking out any background or ambient noise.
The sum of these parts and the orchestra concert is only added up in the media installation in a continuous loop: twenty screens on just as many music stands show the musicians playing in the public space; conductor Hennemann can be seen at work on a monitor on the wall. The Andante itself can be heard as a professional mix of the individual recordings. The visitors are free to move around the room as they wish in this ambience.

Accessible for those with impaired mobility:
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A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Rainer Zendron, Bernd Preinfalk | Overall Concept

Sigurd Hennemann | Conducting

Endless anniversaries: 200 years of Anton Bruckner, 100 years of St. Mary's Cathedral and 25 years of Raumklang - this will be celebrated in style at domorgelsommerlinz24 with RAUMKLANG#25 featuring harps, horns, clarinets and organs!

Free admission!
(ticket reservation requested)

Cathedral Music Society Linz

Clarinet ensemble of the Anton Bruckner Private University

Virtuoso harpists

Vienna Horn Ensemble

Cathedral organist Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Rudigier organ and choir organ

Gerhard Raab | Rudigier organ and choir organ

Bruckner as part of the club scene? In April, the STREAM CLUB and state music students studying digital music production proved that this is possible. And the beat goes on: "It all started with the idea of creating new approaches to Anton Bruckner's classical music," Ilona Roth from Transitheart Productions explains. The latter is a label for artistic  productions in the field of contemporary dance and theatre with interfaces to performance art, film and video. Together with the Linz-based collective Holy Hydra, she has devised Bruckner's Beats and presents pieces by Bruckner featuring electronic remixes and new arrangements in a club atmosphere. Sound installations, performances, art happenings and interventions - Anton Bruckner becomes danceable and tangible.

"We have been dancing at the interface of club culture, religion and society for half a decade now. This has grown from a fascination for special places and a passion for techno. Our spherical sounds and hard beats cast a spell on holy architecture. Sacred space meets urban space, bumbum comes face to face with certain standards," this is how the members of the Hydra collective describe themselves.
The many-headed creature from the underworld of Linz, which defends subcultures both by day and by night, was founded in 2016 as the event collective die geile Hydra which has since become a cultural association. Since 2018 Hydra, as  Holy Hydra , has been playing in churches. For example, on 6 and 7 September, 2024 in the parish church in Urfahr.

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Transitheart Productions coop Holy Hydra

In her songs, Violetta Parisini opens up worlds of emotion that we all somehow know but have not yet put into words. With Peter Rom on guitar, whose unique sound casts a spell over you, and Hanibal Scheutz on bass, the groove personified, she weaves a magic carpet that will remain soft and warm in your memory for a long time to come. The indie pop artist Wim made a name for herself in 2022 with the release of her debut album "Boxer". Her songs, with poetic and accurate lyrics and a love of melancholy, are never simple, but always full of lightness.

The two artists got to know each other while writing their duet "Gespenster" at a songwriting camp and have since written a few more songs out of sheer enthusiasm for each other, which will be performed this evening at the Posthof. German indie pop without clichés or compromises.

Next Bruckner - The concert series curated by Ina Regen
11 concert evenings from January to November 2024 at Posthof Linz
Co-production: Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen

Ina Regen | Curation

Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen, Ina Regen | Co-production

Gerhard Raab's matinee concert at domorgelsommerlinz24 is all about Bruckner's 200th birthday - with the finale from Bruckner's 8th Symphony!

Admission free!

Cathedral Music Society Linz

Gerhard Raab | Rudigier organ

Anton Bruckner is not just a local phenomenon in Upper Austria, but a world-renowned and recognized great as a musician. Who was this man, in whose honor an entire year is proclaimed in Linz and Upper Austria 200 years after his birth?

The exhibition embarks on a journey into Bruckner's past, exploring the set pieces that remain or have emerged over time and placing them in new contexts. Between provincial dust and the big city, we encounter an introverted nerd, an unrecognized genius and his search for love. The life and work of the musical genius is illuminated as well as critically questioned from today's perspective. Views, original artifacts and documents, and contemporary visualizations shed new light on a great musician. In six themed rooms, the story of Bruckner is retold and made tangible.

Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz

Simon-Wiesenthal-Platz 1 4020 Linz Details & Tickets

Where, if not in Upper Austria, where "sporting" through the diverse natural landscapes has developed into a real mass movement in recent decades, and in the middle of the marathon "stronghold" and provincial capital Linz, where the Linz Danube Marathon attracts up to 20,000 ambitious amateur runners from 80 nations to the spectacular start in the middle of the Voest highway bridge once a year, a new symphony will be created in 2024. One of running, dedicated to Anton Bruckner and his work. The Anton Bruckner running course with start at the Old Cathedral and finish at the Brucknerhaus Linz!

It is not known that Bruckner, in addition to his groundbreaking musical work and his attachment to tradition in the Land ob der Enns, would have paid particular homage to physical training and fitness. On the 200th birthday of Upper Austria's great son, the Anton Bruckner running route is therefore more of an offer to the current generation. At the same time, however, it also invites you to rediscover the work of the famous composer: Based on the number of Bruckner symphonies, the distance is exactly nine kilometers, ground markings with the symbol of the anniversary "Anton Bruckner 2024" mark the course, acoustic signposts make the master's musical work resound.

The 1st Anton Bruckner Lauf on September 15, 2024 will be the opening ceremony. As a fun run for all sports enthusiasts, held according to the rules of the Austrian Athletics Association, finishers can expect a special medal and a full refreshment bar in the start/finish area. The winners will also receive honorary prizes. After the competition, the Anton Bruckner running track will be opened to the public as a unique, freely usable, permanent "symphony of running".

Anton Bruckner Running Course and Anton Bruckner Run: The Symphony of Running
Concept, production: LIVA Sport & Linz Danube Marathon
Opening: 15.09.2024 Linz main square, near the old cathedral

7 artists print lithographs from the stone and create an individual reference to Anton Bruckner.

In contrast to earlier times - in the 18th century in the days of the inventor Senefelder, where there were only male artists and printers - or even in Anton Bruckner's lifetime, printed matter was printed by men. Only later, as the only exception among artists, did Käthe Kollwitz become an artistic role model with a strong statement in her lithographs.
Today, female artists are even in the majority, even in physically difficult, elaborate, old printing techniques, such as lithography according to Senefelder.
This beautiful, special technique has not become obsolete without the digital simplification of the press.

During the symposium, you can look over the artists' shoulders every day from August 15 - 21, 2024.

1st presentation of the symposium results:
31.08.2024 at 16:00 hrs.
in Laakirchen in the papermaking museum (lower level)

2nd presentation Bruckner print:
09/17/2024 at 19:00

Renate Moran

Monika Breitenfellner

Mariam Chikava

Olga Djomina

Inga Hehn

Helene Huemer

Georgina Lovelady Krausz

155 years after its premiere, Bruckner's Mass in E minor will be performed in the Mariendom during a festive service.

Admission free

Diocese of Linz - Cathedral Music

Cathedral Choir Linz

Wind ensemble and choir of the Musikgymnasium Linz

Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Cathedral organist

Andreas Peterl | Cathedral conductor

As the composer of numerous choral pieces, Anton Bruckner is an indispensable part of any choir's repertoire. With its exhibition Komm, sing mit!, the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz dedicates itself to the aspect of singing together from the perspective of contemporary art. The show brings together national and international artists for whom singing in all its diversity forms an elementary point of reference within their artistic practice.

Exhibition duration: 04.10.24 - 05.01.25

Lentos Art Museum

Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1 4020 Linz Details & Tickets

The songs of the young Waldviertel native living in Vienna are slightly darkened, but never completely sinister. Even at a discreet room volume, her sensitive singer-songwriter pop completely captivates you. The intimate sound conveys a melancholy that always resonates in her tracks. Difficult moments are the best source of inspiration for Oska.

She hit the big time in mid-2020. The singer/songwriter signed her first record deal with the Canadian label Nettwerk, won the XA Music Export Award at the Waves Vienna Festival 2020 shortly afterwards, released her debut EP "Honeymoon Phase", landed many of her songs in the Austrian airplay charts and won her first Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the "Best Sound" category in 2022. With plays on the cultural radio station Ö1, the mainstream radio Ö3 and the alternative music radio FM4, she managed a balancing act in her home country that only very few artists are rewarded with in Austria. In addition to all the major publications in her home country, Oska has also won over the press in Germany, Holland, France, Italy and even the USA.

Maria is currently living out her rich musical heritage in Vienna, where she has completed her album "My world, My love, Paris". As Oska, she creates a tantalizing world of radiant melodies, groovy rhythms and poetic lyrics that tell stories. Ultimately, despite its disparate themes of love, grief, climate change and family, "My world, My love, Paris" is a snapshot of a young woman trying to make sense of growing older in an increasingly uncertain time.

Next Bruckner - The concert series curated by Ina Regen
11 concert evenings from January to November 2024 at Posthof Linz
Co-production: Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen

Ina Regen | Curation

Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen, Ina Regen | Co-production

A "something", an "in-between", a fifteen-year-old punk girl is required to perform one hundred hours of community service for various offenses with an old man who is unable to leave his room due to his mobility restrictions. The man reads books that don't interest the girl and listens to music that always sounds the same to the girl. It turns out that the man is mainly concerned with the question of the cymbal beat in Anton Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. He seems unwavering in his pursuit of the question of how much loud exaggeration some things need in order to be understood, and how easily one is inclined to find something ridiculous because one does not recognize complexity, humility and sublimity. Although the young girl does her best to resist this, a relationship develops with the old woman. Eventually, she is able to ask questions and reveal something about herself.

Manuela Linshalm is a freelance actress, puppeteer and lecturer at the Filmacademy Vienna. After training at the Franz Schubert Conservatory and apprenticeships with Nikolaus Habjan and Neville Tranter, she has been performing continuously at the Schubert Theater Vienna since 2009, where three solo puppet theater pieces have appeared to date (most recently "Die Welt ist ein Würstelstand"). Other engagements include the Akademietheater Wien, Theater an der Wien, Residenztheater München, Landestheater NÖ, Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen, Bayerische Staatsoper, Volkstheater Wien, Rabenhof Theater, Next Liberty Graz, Theater in der Josefstadt, Theater Dortmund and many more.

Paulus Hochgatterer lives as a storyteller, playwright and child and adolescent psychiatrist in Vienna and in the Waldviertel. His narrative work has been translated into more than 15 languages and has won numerous awards. In recent years, his plays have been performed at various theaters in the German-speaking world, including the Schauspielhaus Graz, the Residenztheater Munich, the Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, the Burgtheater Vienna and the Opera Festival in Bayreuth. Most of his stage works were created for the Austrian director and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan.

The sleeping whale
Play by Paulus Hochgatterer
Play: Manuela Linshalm
Director, set: Simon Meusburger
Co-production: Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen, Schubert Theater Vienna
World premiere: 9.10.2024 Posthof, Linz

The Composition Workshop: Composing in HIMMLISCHER HÖHE aims to be a place that offers young composers space for exciting sound experiments in and with Austria's largest church. On the occasion of the anniversaries "100 years of the Mariendom Linz" and "200 years of Anton Bruckner", it offers the extraordinary opportunity for an intensive exchange between young composers (born in 1998 and later) and professional musicians as well as an exciting experience for the (sound) artistic career.

The vocal compositions, which were created following a workshop in the footsteps of Anton Bruckner and St. Mary's Cathedral as well as a composition residency in the Türmerstube at a height of 68 meters above Linz, will be premiered at the presentation concert by the renowned Ensemble Cantando Admont under the direction of Cordula Bürgi in the presence of the young sound creators.

Accessibility:
St. Mary's Cathedral
Phone number
e-mail

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Ensemble Cantando Admont Vocal Ensemble | Vocal Ensemble

Cordula Bürgi | Management

Are you curious about Bruckner? Would you like to dive deeper into the world of the composer and the man himself? Would you like to pass on your own enthusiasm and knowledge?

Take advantage of this entertaining course offering all the music and information from and about Bruckner that it will take to expand your Bruckner horizons.

Number of participants:
The crash course will take place with a minimum of 5 participants and is limited to 25 participants.

Bruckner as part of the club scene? In April, the STREAM CLUB and state music students studying digital music production proved that this is possible. And the beat goes on: "It all started with the idea of creating new approaches to Anton Bruckner's classical music," Ilona Roth from Transitheart Productions explains. The latter is a label for artistic  productions in the field of contemporary dance and theatre with interfaces to performance art, film and video. Together with the Linz-based collective Holy Hydra, she has devised Bruckner's Beats and presents pieces by Bruckner featuring electronic remixes and new arrangements in a club atmosphere. Sound installations, performances, art happenings and interventions - Anton Bruckner becomes danceable and tangible.

In three rooms, you can listen to interpretations of Bruckner's symphonies by DJs and musicians, immerse yourself in parallel worlds of sound, accompanied by live interaction from dancers, via a headphone audio system on three channels. Along the way, you can talk about Bruckner, toast him and philosophize about him. Supported by club sounds - loud and quiet at the same time - thoughtful but also danceable, ambivalent like Bruckner himself.

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Transitheart Productions coop Holy Hydra

Halluzination is a new production of Anton Bruckner's 1868 composition Erinnerung that combines artificial intelligence, live music, performance, singing, holographic laser projections and light - to create a new, sensual level of perception that combines classical music, contemporary art and the avant-garde.
The artist, composer, singer and music producer Crystn Hunt Akron, together with intermedia artist Chris Noelle - who is designing the visualization - and Ali Nikrang, who works as a composer, artist and key researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, are responsible for the resurrection of this Bruckner work in a musical-performative-visual dream world.
The art makes use of artificial intelligence: it generates a piece that represents a kind of memory of memory and is rearranged and remixed.

Accessibility:
Klemens Hager
+43 (0) 676 8776-5656
klemens.hager@dioezese-linz.at

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 with the kind support of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport

Christine Hinterkörner aka CRYSTN HUNT AKRON/Singer, composer, sound and performance artist | Artistic direction & idea

Chris Noelle/Intermedia Artist | Visualization

Ali Nikrang, Ars Electronica Futurelab/Key Researcher, Composer, Artist | AI Music

Artists:inside from Linz and Upper Austria | Live performance

TONI ON TOUR, a summer tour of the Upper Austrian Children's University with Anton Bruckner. At all locations in Upper Austria, children can immerse themselves in Toni's fascinating world for a day and experience a creative combination of science and music as well as old and new, classical and contemporary musical worlds. TONI, the little explorer, collects musical treasures in Upper Austria and presents a colorful music concert at the graduation in Steyr in August.

Registration: Monday, 16.10.2024 from 18:00

A project of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 in cooperation with the KinderUni

KinderUni Upper Austria (supporting organization: Institute for Applied Environmental Education)

Are you curious about Bruckner? Would you like to dive deeper into the world of the composer and the man himself? Would you like to pass on your own enthusiasm and knowledge?

Take advantage of this entertaining course offering all the music and information from and about Bruckner that it will take to expand your Bruckner horizons.

Number of participants:
The crash course will take place with a minimum of 5 participants and is limited to 25 participants.

The new Ina Regen is colorful and light. And yet as poetic and true to life as usual. Almost two years to the day have passed since the #1 album "røt" and these have been exciting, but above all intense and turbulent times that have affected and touched the whole world. Times that have naturally not left a sensitive artist like Ina Regen unscathed. This was enough of an impetus to initiate a number of changes and to give space to the experiences she herself has lived through in her music and to make them audible.

The music that the Vienna-based singer-songwriter presents to her fans this time is almost as colorful as the album cover. This can be seen as the consistent further development of a charismatic, energetic and eloquent artist. Or as an expression of the new-found self-confidence of a woman whose voice has become an indispensable companion for large sections of the public. But it is certainly the joy of breaking through the boundaries she once imposed on herself and reinventing herself, surprising and yet remaining true to herself. "If I had to give this creative period a title, it would be 'Emancipation'," says Ina Regen herself.

Ina Regen has also emancipated herself on a professional level. "Fast wie Radlfahrn" is the first album on her own label Nannerl. For the Amadeus Award winner, this step towards independence was a logical consequence of her career. "Over the last few years, I have increasingly understood that my creativity is nourished by a playful impulsiveness and an unwavering gut feeling. So that my profession can continue to give me this joy and my music can also be part of my honest attitude to life in the long term, the greatest possible self-determination is the only way to happiness for me personally."

Next Bruckner - The concert series curated by Ina Regen
11 concert evenings from January to November 2024 at Posthof Linz
Co-production: Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen

Ina Regen | Curation

Posthof - Zeitkultur am Hafen, Ina Regen | Co-production

Are you curious about Bruckner? Would you like to dive deeper into the world of the composer and the man himself? Would you like to pass on your own enthusiasm and knowledge?

Take advantage of this entertaining course offering all the music and information from and about Bruckner that it will take to expand your Bruckner horizons.

Number of participants:
The crash course will take place with a minimum of 5 participants and is limited to 25 participants.