Contemporary Music
From Vienna
Creating space for new music and inspiring artistic collaboration.
Projects
With our activities, we create space to engage with new music while offering a platform where musicians, composers, and artists collaborate in innovative and inspiring ways.
Exhibition Opening and Concert at the Musilhaus Klagenfurt
• 20. October 2025 @ 19:00
• Musilhaus Bahnhofstraße 50, 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthesee
• Works by Liza Lim, Malin Bång, Dai Fujikura, Francesco Felidei and John CageOn October 20, the Robert Musil Literature Museum will be transformed into a resonant space between word and sound: the opening of Frank Ritmeester’s exhibition meets a concert by Ensemble Kreis – in cooperation with the Musikforum Klagenfurt. Ritmeester, a Dutch-Austrian artist, takes inspiration from Musil’s prose, condensing textual fragments into visual scores: language becomes image, memory becomes landscape.Musically, a finely woven fabric unfolds between toy piano, violin, and percussion; works by John Cage, Dai Fujikura, Malin Bång, Liza Lim, and Francesco Filidei open up precisely contoured listening spaces. Cage’s miniatures act as a guiding thread – brief, pointed breaths that sharpen the program and shape it into a concentrated and surprisingly captivating evening.On behalf of the Mayor, Cultural Advisor City Councillor Mag. Franz Petritz warmly invites you.Booking under: [email protected]More Info
Lili Boulanger
• 9. October 2025 @ 20:00
• Musikverein Metallener Saal, Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 Wien
• Uraufführung: Reina Yoshioka – Werk für Violine, Klarinette, Schlagzeug und KlavierTickets
Kompositionswerkstatt
13. December 2024 @ 19:00
Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 WienIn line with the ensemble’s mission to promote contemporary music and provide a platform for creative collaboration between composers and performers, two new works have been commissioned from composers Doina Cezara Procopciuc and Philipp Kienberger. For this presentation, Philipp Kienberger has created an acoustic, partly improvised trio for flute, vibraphone, and double bass. Doina Cezara Procopciuc contributes a quartet for flute, vibraphone, double bass, and piano, expanded with live electronics and video projection. The evening also features a selection of established solo and duo works from the contemporary repertoire, alongside these world premieres.Supported by Stadt Wien MA7, Carrer Center der mdw and SKE-Fonds.Tickets
Nono 100
20. October 2024 @ 15:00
Zacherlfabrik, Nusswaldgasse 14, 1190 Wien“Wanderer, there are no paths, only walking.” This motto became central to Luigi Nono’s late work. In La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (1988–89), the violinist moves through the space, following a fragmented score spread across multiple stands. The performance becomes a journey—uncertain, searching, open. Nono’s recordings of Gidon Kremer, rich with improvisation, noise, and musical memory, form the basis of eight tape tracks, mixed live and projected into the room. Together with the live violin part—interweaving echoes of Verdi and earlier works by Nono—a shifting sonic landscape emerges.
ex tempore
17. July 2024 @ 19:30
Bank Austria Salon im alten Rathaus, Wipplingerstraße 8, 1010 WienThis concert anticipates the centenary of Pierre Boulez in 2025 by placing the spotlight on two composers who were closely connected to him. At its center stands one of the masterpieces of the 20th century: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1941) by Olivier Messiaen, Boulez’s teacher and a towering figure of modern music. Complementing this is Vier Lieder ohne Worte (1982–83) by Heinz Holliger, one of Boulez’s most prominent students and an influential composer in his own right.Tickets
About
Ensemble
Founded in early 2024 in Vienna, Ensemble Kreis is dedicated to the performance and promotion of new and contemporary music. We approach diverse musical languages, cultures, and social contexts with openness, flexibility, and transparency.The name “Kreis” (German for “circle”) is a metaphor for our approach. A circle completes itself. Multiple circles overlap. Points of contact emerge. A circle can remain fluid: it may change shape, bounce, move freely. The term "Kreis" is intentionally ambiguous, inviting free association, not fixed definition.
Founder
Born in Japan, pianist Shiori Yoshino studied at Kunitachi College of Music and later in Austria, completing her diplomas in piano performance and classical music pedagogy at institutions in Eisenstadt and Vienna.Since 2022, she has focused on contemporary music through her Master’s studies in Contemporary Music Ensemble at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
In 2024, she founded Ensemble Kreis, where she serves as artistic director and pianist. Under her leadership, the ensemble has launched multiple performances and is continually developing new projects to bring contemporary music to a wider audience.
Contact
To good collaboration!We’re always open to new artistic partnerships with ensembles, composers, artists, curators, and institutions. If you have a project or idea in mind, we’d love to hear from you.