The New Music ensemble "die reihe", founded in 1958 by Friedrich Cerha and Kurt Schwertsik in Vienna, has since that time offered chamber music programs of all stylistic orientations, serving as champions particularly of the legacy of the Second Viennese School: the works of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Since the early 1960s “die reihe“ has not only presented its own concert series in Vienna but has been invited to the foremost international festivals of avant-garde music: the Berliner Festwochen, Holland Festival, Warsaw Autumn festival, the Styrian Autumn, the biennales of Venice and Zagreb, musica viva München, Neues Werk Hamburg, and Musik der Zeit Köln. Since 1983 HK Gruber has been the Artistic Director of the ensemble, which is comprised of members of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Numbered among the guests who have collaborated with the orchestra are Dennis Russell Davies, John Cage, Ernst Krenek, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Johannes Kalitzke, Nicholas Cleobury, and Peter Rundel. Soloists have included Edita Gruberova, Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky, Marjana Lipovšek, Maurizio Pollini, Heinrich Schiff, and Wolfgang Schulz. more...

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