Piano Duo Kalabova & Gugg
Tereza Gugg-Kalabova and Johannes Gugg already formed as a duo in their youth and have a particularly strong understanding of playing together as a result of their joint artistic development. Their subtle and finely balanced interpretations have won them numerous prizes, starting with Prima la musica and continuing with numerous other awards, including a special prize at the ARD Music Competition 2021. They have performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Musikverein as well as international concert halls and open-air stages. They perform as a duo as well as with various orchestras, including Carl Czerny's Piano Concerto for Four Hands with the Webern Kammerphilharmonie in a broadcast by ORF.

Samuel Toro Pérez solo
Samuel Toro Pérez uses the electric guitar amplified and distorted at full volume in contemporary music, but Samuel Toro Pérez also sets the strings of the guitar vibrating in a quiet and multifaceted way. Numerous compositions have already been written for Samuel Toro Pérez, for example by Elena Rykova, Alexander Kaiser and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong. Samuel Toro Pérez also devotes himself to composing, mainly in the field of ambient and drone music. His performances always go beyond purely acoustic interpretation and also incorporate performative and scenographic elements into the performances, moving alongside the contemporary music scene with renowned ensembles such as the Black Page Orchestra, Phace and Klangforum Wien into the fields of performing arts and media art. And so the boundaries between composing and performing, creating and curating become blurred in Samuel Toro Pérez's work.

yvonne moriel :: sweetlife
Yvonne Moriel's EP "sweet life" was released at the end of 2021 and combines jazz with dub, hip-hop and electronic music. Moriel teamed up with Stephanie Weninger (keys & bass synth) and Raphael Vorraber (drums) for the live realization of the primarily electronically produced EP with its very reduced and short tracks. In numerous jams, they worked on the instrumental realization of the tracks and created their own sound, which brings the music back to the free jazz roots of the three artists, but does not lose any of its independence. Then the idea arose to bring Andreas Tausch (guitar) on board to add new colors to the music and create constant change and further development. In addition to reggae vibes, dub effects, J-Dilla beats and world music elements, the music opens up more and more to free improvisations and avant-garde sound paintings.

Duo Minerva
Boundaries between genres and remaining in the same musical position are, it seems, completely alien to this duo. Tyrolean clarinettist Johanna Gossner and Vorarlberg accordionist Damian Keller form the Duo Minerva and show what exciting new things can be created when you break away from all musical traditions. The two come from a classical background, but know how to artfully expand this into modern forms of music. As you can hear on their latest album "Sound of Servus", the result is an artistic crossover sound that draws on a wide variety of genres, such as alpine folk music and avant-garde, and develops its very own character. The masterpieces of classical music, reworked by the pair with great finesse and a good dose of wit, are given a wonderful new lease of life, shining in a new light and telling their stories in an elegant tone in a way that has never been heard before.

HAEZZ
Would it be possible to speak of a new all-star trio of Austrian Jazz? The maturity and compactness of the compositions that are celebrated with such relish by Haezz convey the image of seasoned, veteran musicians, devoid of any demonstrative attitude and who know what they are doing. The warm and intimate chorals stand alongside artfully interwoven, contrapuntal webs of lyrical urgency. Then back to a groove-heavy breakneck pace, in which all three instruments bounce between rhythmic, harmonic and melodic roles. Polyphone ideas of Cool-Jazz meet complex rhythmic finesse and central European melodic allusions. The stupendous virtuosity gleams through again and again and serves as a means for this purely acoustic, hand-made chamber jazz laden with overtones. Tobias Vedovelli, Štěpán Flagar and Martin Eberle play music that pairs sensuosity with an aspiration for creativity, the type of music that goes straight to the heart and excites the mind. A wondrous pleasure to listen to. (Andreas Felber, Ö1)