Stepan Flagar
A jazz musician born in 1995 is composing a saxophone concerto in which he will be accompanied by a 65-piece orchestra. Stepan Flagar, who hails from the Czech Republic, came up with this extraordinary idea while studying at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. Flagar, who has lived in Vienna since 2014, is one of the most exciting figures on the local young jazz scene, as evidenced by his involvement in the bands “Purple is the Color” and “Haezz” (alongside trumpeter Martin Eberle and bassist Tobias Vedovelli).

Georg Vogel is a keyboardist, composer and instrument maker. Aside from regular solo performances, he leads the 31-tone ensemble Dsilton (with David Dornig and Valentin Duit), Flower (with Raphael Preuschl and Michael Prowaznik), Tree (with Andreas Waelti and Michael Prowaznik); he also performs in duo with Elias Stemeseder, in the trio GeoGeMa with Matheus Jardim and Gerald Preinfalk, and with the Max Nagl 5. He is a composer of works in polytonal/microtonal tuning systems and for newly developed instruments, such as the 31-tone Claviton keyboards; he has also developed and built the multi-tonal keyboard instruments E-, A- and M-Claviton with 31 keys per octave. Performed and published compositions at numerous concerts and on several recordings. He has authored theoretical works on the subjects of n-tolic time signatures, rhythmic systematics and improvisation, compositional techniques, and polytonal/microtonal music. He is co-editor of the journal “Enharmntolische Theorie & Praxis” and has been a guest lecturer on intonation and tuning at the University of Music in Vienna and at numerous European symposia and conferences on microtonality.