As part of the ninth edition of the impuls festival in Graz, new works by emerging composers will once again be premiered this year by Klangforum Wien.

After composers from 48 nations and five continents submitted their pieces to the impuls Composition Competition 2022/2023, a jury of musicians and composers (Paul Beckett, Franck Bedrossian, Clara Iannotta, Sarah Nemtsov and Anders Nyqvist) selected five winners in May 2023, who were subsequently commissioned to write a composition. These new pieces for ensemble can now be heard for the first time in Graz.

Impuls. 9th festival for contemporary music

Helmut List Halle

Music by Bienen students Matthew Mailman and Jianing Yang receives world premieres. Also featured is splitting to collapse by Bienen professor Kelley Sheehan, a work “once becoming aware of itself, it collapses in, exhausted.” Concluding the evening is Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together, a burning dive into the injustices of incarceration.

Kelley Sheehan

Events

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May 23, 2026

Contemporary Music Ensemble · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

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Feb 25, 2025

Impuls. 9th festival for contemporary music · Klangforum Wien

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