Tonkünstler-Orchester

Who says that the music of our time is unsingable? «I would like to sing», declares a poetic fragment by Friedrich Hölderlin, quoted by Georg Friedrich Haas in connection with his orchestral piece «Natures mortes». The work is also an «attempt to (re)invent something like <cantabile>», he writes, also pointing to the combination of different chordal overtones and rhythmic patterns inspired by the paintings of Roy Lichtenstein. Haas impressed himself onto the collective memory in Grafenegg as Composer in Residence in 2022 with his «Parkmusik für Grafenegg». Under the direction of Enno Poppe, Composer in Residence 2024, the Tonkunstler perform electrifying new music, including, appropriately enough, the Austrian premiere of Poppe's most recent orchestral work «Strom».