CLUB MOSAIK

ALEXANDER CHERNYSHKOV is a composer, performer and improviser. He experiments actively in building unique new instruments of strictly acoustical and mechanical origin. His main focus is the composition and practice of the performative, musical theatre based on interdisciplinarity between methods and genres, which is being referred as Error Theatre. His works are performed and programmed by ensembles like musikFabrik, Nikel, Nadar, PHACE, and festivals such as Wien Modern, Gaudeamus, Biennale di Venezia, Steirischer Herbst, Gergiev Festival, Bludenz Musiktage, Hamburg State Opera, Elektrotheater Stanislavsky, Musiktheatertage Wien. He holds the scholarship "Akademie Musiktheater Heute" and is the winner of the NOperas! 2020.

The Burgenlander FRANZ HAUTZINGER is one of the most prominent experimental musicians on the Austrian scene, who has worked with many big names of the international avant-garde, from Elliott Sharp and John Cale to Christian Fennesz and Keiji Haino. Hautzinger has developed his quarter-tone trumpet into a completely new means of expression, from which he elicits bizarre sounds and noises. Hautzinger is known for his innovative use of electronics and effects with the trumpet. In his solo performances, he creates the most adventurous soundscapes that sound more like electronic music than trumpet and are full of interesting sounds. Franz Hautzinger has received various awards and scholarships for his musical work. He is regarded as one of the most innovative contemporary trumpet players and sound researchers on the Austrian music scene. In addition to his career as a musician, Hautzinger is also active in teaching and teaches at various music institutions.

ANKE RETZLAFF is an actress, musician and director. After studying music (singing, violin, piano) at the Hanover University of Music, she studied acting at the Rostock University of Music and Drama. In addition to various theatre and film engagements, she also works as a musician and theatre director. Her work is characterised by a high degree of interdisciplinarity.

PETER FLORIAN BERNDT is a musician, songwriter and performer. He has already worked as a composer and stage musician at various theatres in Germany. He is an active member of the professional improv theatre ensemble "Ernst von Leben" and electric guitarist with "LosPistoleros Güeros". He is a permanent member of the artistic ensemble in Retzlaff's productions.

DOMINIK TREMEL works as a freelance musician at theatres and in the field of experimental electro-acoustic music and, like Berndt, is a member of the ensemble "Ernst von Leben". He also develops radio plays and films: "TRAUMfactory" was screened at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in 2020, while the radio play "Was wirklich geschah" won first prize at the 2021 Berlin Radio Play Festival.

MARINO FORMENTI, recognised worldwide as a pianist and performer, repeatedly puts his virtuosity at the service of risky experiments in which opposites collide and music is heard in places where it is otherwise unfamiliar. His preference for radically new approaches to the relationship between music, audience and performer is reflected in very different projects. For example, he performs concerts for a single person, lets the audience sing and even play the piano, or plays for several weeks without interruption in a publicly accessible space. Formenti has performed as a soloist at the most important festivals in New York, London, Lucerne, Sazburg and Berlin, as well as with leading orchestras and conductors.

CLARA FRÜHSTÜCK is a pianist, performer and composer who lives and works in Vienna. As a trained classical musician, she has been involved in diverse collaborations with artists from a wide variety of contexts since her studies. She develops extravagant concepts that enable a relaxed approach to music in order to bring together a multi-layered audience.

In recent years, her focus has increasingly shifted to performance and theatre.

www.clarafruehstueck.com

Philipp Quehenberger (keyboard) and Tex Rubinowitz (voice and shawm) - two quarters of MÄUSE, Austria's most unpredictable band - perform again and again with spinet and lyrics, homages to Thomas Forstner ("Venedig im Regen"), railways ("Attenzione du fällst gleich") and ABBA ("When i kissed the teacher"), Tales from the forest of the hanged, stories of woodlice in Hendrik Ibsen's ouevre, talking radishes and planets made of aspirin and an ode to the "hammer in the idiot's hand".

The press wrote about the duo, who sometimes call themselves "Fickton Johnnies" or "Cortison Junkies": "The singer claims to be "the Italian jazz bump guru". Yet he neither speaks Italian nor has the qualities of a guru, and the term jazz is nothing more than a rancid slogan he borrowed from a Romanian furniture store. "Ședința este jazz" (Sitting is jazz). In the early days of the satirical programme "Willkommen Österreich", the keyboardist caused people to question the concept of public television, so much so that he disturbed viewers. The two are regarded as guarantors of mischief, and at quite a few concerts they were offered money to stop."

Philipp Quehenberger, born in Innsbruck in 1977, grew up in Seattle and Newcastle and lives as a musician and composer in Vienna.

Tex Rubinowitz, born in Hanover in 1961, illustrator and author, lives in Vienna, won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2014.