I’ve been listening to Austrian composer Peter Androsch, or rather one work of his, since Michael Northam first shared it with me when I was 21. Today I heard everything else. What Michael first shared was Bellum Docet Omnia: The Implosion of Values and it blew my mind. —
Matt Marble, musicologist (Princeton University)
Peter Androsch can confidently be called a universal artist. He works internationally as a musician, composer, spatial and writing artist, researcher, writer and lecturer. In 2023, he received the Austrian State Prize for Art in the category of music. The Süddeutsche Zeitung writes about his work: “For Androsch’s works are of pure, magnificent beauty. And if you stare at them long enough, you will hear and read anew.”
After touring in Europe, Africa and the United States, the artist has devoted himself to composition since the 1990s. 23 productions in music theater, 13 of which are explicitly referred to as operas, form the focus.
Peter Androsch heads the Co.Lab Acoustic Ecology at the University of Art and Design in Linz. As music director of the European Capital of Culture Linz 2009, he founded the Hörstadt (Acoustic City) laboratory for acoustics, space and society in 2006.
The work on the phonographies, the score or sound images, is becoming increasingly important, also installations and art in architecture. Peter Androsch’s distinctive acoustic-musical thinking is formative in this regard.
Awards
Austrian State Prize for Music 2023 / Faust – Nomination for the German Stage Art Award Faust 2012 for the children’s opera „Freunde!“ (Friends!) at Staatsoper Hannover / Pasticciopreis Radio Ö1 (ORF) / Upper Austrian Anton Bruckner scholarship (A) 2004 / Austrian national scholarship for composition (A) 2002 / Scholarship of Thomas-Bernhard-Archiv Gmunden (A) 2002 / Upper Austrian Landeskulturpreis for music (A) 2000 / Publicity Prize of Austro-Mechana (A) 1999 / Talent promotion prize for music from the province of Upper Austria (A) 1996 / Scholarship for the promotion of art from the city of Linz (A) / Prize of the Jury for “Hasenjagd/The Quality of Mercy” (Director: A. Gruber) Film Festival San Sebastian (E)