Johannes Maria Staud receives Austrian Art Award 2022

01.11.2022
Awards & Successes
Johannes Maria Staud | © Priska Ketterer
The Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sport (BMKÖS) recently announced the winners of the Austrian Art Award 2022, each endowed with 15,000 euros - Johannes Maria Staud receives the Art Award in the category of music.
In 1997 Staud co-founded the composers' group Gegenklang in Vienna, of which he is still a member; since 2018 he has taught composition as a university professor at the Mozarteum University. His works have been premiered by Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic, among others, and he has received commissions from the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra.

His important works include "On the Voice of the White Chalk" (Specter I-III) and the diptych "Par ici - Par là". His opera "The Willows," to a libretto by Durs Grünbein based on Algernon Blackwood's story "The Willows," addresses the issues of the refugee crisis and right-wing populism and premiered at the Vienna State Opera in 2018. in 2021, ensemble xx. jahrhundert premiered his work "Listen, Revolution (we're buddies, see -)" at the Wien Modern Festival.

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