Flora Geißelbrecht (AUT)

Flora Geißelbrecht is a composer, performer, improviser and lyricist who focuses on contemporary music and musical and interdisciplinary interactions. Her music often engages with text, language or voice. As a violist, she has performed extensively both as a soloist and in ensembles (e.g., Ensemble Modern, Studio Dan) at Wien Modern, the Unsafe and Sounds Festival, Impuls Festival and the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen). Flora Geißelbrecht's solo programmes for viola and voice have one thing in common: A great sensitivity for sound research and sound blending down to the finest detail, where she manages to fuse her voice and viola into a fascinating and seamless unity.