Selection of Projects

CHRISTOPHER SUMMER FESTIVAL VILNIUS | Artistic Advisor, 2024

Program planning in close collaboration with the festival’s artistic director for the 30th anniversary season of the largest summer music festival in Lithuania.

GRAFENEGG | Grafenegg Academy, 2024 + 2023 + 2022

Accompanying and consulting Grafenegg Academy and its strategy over the course of three years. Every year highly skilled young music professionals are being selected to take part in this academy program, performing in various ensembles as well as in an orchestra concert in Grafenegg under the guidance of world class musicians.

Concours de Genève | Artistic Projects, 2023 + 2022

Consulting the semi finalists’ personal artistic projects as a sparring partner and mentor over the course of 3 weeks. Creating a personal artistic project is a part of the semifinal round, one of the recent additions of this reputable competition, founded in 1939.

German Record Critics' Award’s | Jury Member, since 2023

Jury member of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik / German Record Critics' Award’s Quarterly Critics' Choice and Annual Awards. This prize was established in 1963 and consists of 32 juries of various genres.

Lecturing | Selection of Lectures, 2023

Mozarteum University Salzburg; The Royal College of Music in Stockholm; State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart; University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig; Norwegian Academy of Music; University of Music and Performing Arts Graz; Grafenegg Academy; Soundtrack Cologne; Austrian Chamber of Economics; International String Quartet Academy Paris; European Chamber Music Academy; Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków

All Quiet on the Western Front | Netflix Movie, 2022

4 Academy Awards 2023 - e.g. Best International Feature Film | 7 BAFTA Awards 2023 - e.g. Best Film & Best Film Not in the English Language | Golden Globes 2023 - Nominated as Best Picture - Non-English Language | 131 nominations and awards

Director: Edward Berger | Screenplay: Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell | Erich Maria Remarque (novel) | Cast: Felix Kammerer, Daniel Brühl, Sebastian Hülk, Albrecht Schuch, Anton von Lucke and others. | Andreas Vierziger: classical music consultant | in cooperation with Cinesong

Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam | Special Projects, 2022 + 2021

Consulting the orchestra’s future possibilities for special projects in close collaboration with the orchestra’s artistic director. Work happened remotely as well as in person in Amsterdam on various occasions.

The Empress | Netflix Series, 2022

Emmy Awards - Best International Drama Series | Netflix Charts - Worldwide Chart Leader in non-english speaking series | Netflix Charts - Top Ten in 79 countries

Directors: Florian Cossen and Katrin Gebbe | Written by: Katharina Eyssen | Co-Writers: Bernd Lange, Janna Maria Nandzik, Lena Stahl | Cast: Philip Froissant, Devrim Lingnau and others | Andreas Vierziger: classical music supervisor | in cooperation with Cinesong

Paris Opera Competition | Strategy Consulting, 2022

Consulting Paris Opera Competition in various concerns; work happened remotely from Vienna and in person in Paris.

Lecturing | Selection of Lectures, 2022

Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stellenbosch University, Lübeck Academy of Music, Mozarteum Salzburg; State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart; University of Music and Performing Arts Graz; Grafenegg Academy; International String Quartet Academy Paris; European Chamber Music Academy; University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, University of Music and Performing Arts Munich

House of Silence | Lausitz Festival, 2021

Music installation in the former Bautzen II Stasi prison in Görlitz/Germany (nowadays Bautzen memorial) based on interviews with former inmates about their dreams during and after their incarceration; consisting of chamber music performances, performances, video, a sound installation with 26 electromagnets producing knock signals

S. Sciarrino: Lo spazio inverso | O. Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps | Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King | sound installation with 26 electromagnets by Lenard Gimpel

Aron Kitzig: director | Lenard Gimpel: sound installation | Claudia Raab: Costumes | Kelvin Chan: baritone | Zafraan Ensemble: orchestra

Andreas Vierziger: music consultant

The Royal Game - Schachnovelle | Arthaus, 2021

German Film Award - Nominated as Best Feature Film

Director: Philipp Stölzl | Script: Eldar Grigorian | Author: Stefan Zweig

Cast: Oliver Masucci, Dieter Bernhardt, Elias Gabele, Birgit Minichmayr and others

Andreas Vierziger: classical music consultant

Virtual Ballroom | Campaign by Austria Tourism, 2021

Since none of the nearly 450 annual Viennese balls could happen in 2021 due to COVID-19 Austria Tourism created a temporary virtual ballroom experience in Vienna’s fifth season - the ballroom season – with a tradition over 200 years. The project featured traditional Austrian music from the Strauß era, a dancing challenge #waltzaroundtheworld, background information, numerous interviews. This campaign was marketed globally.

Andreas Vierziger: curator and consultant

Günther Caspar Foundation | Career Advancement Program 2021 - 2023

Co-creating the curriculum of the 2021 - 2023 term’s Career Advancement Program with sessions in Paris, Vienna as well as online; shortlisting candidates and reviewing them as part of a jury; lecturing, consulting and mentoring.

Mozartfest Würzburg | MozartLabor “Social Impact“, 2020

Creating a lecturing series and running a multi-day laboratory at Mozartfest Würzburg (founded 1921) focusing on cultural and artistic projects that have an impact on society. Participants were selected in consultation with Mozartfest Würzburg after an application process.

ZwischenWelten/BetweenWorlds | Opening Premiere of Lausitz Festival, 2020

Large scale open air video installation and live performance at several walls and the site of the Telux Glass Factory in Weisswasser/Saxony.

Music by K. Penderecki, G. Mahler, A. Dvorak, P.I. Tchaikovsky, A. Schnittke, sound installation by Lenard Gimpel, live electronics by Paul Friedrich Frick

Aron Kitzig: director | Andreas Haas: camera | Christian Öhl: camea assistant | Peter Erlemann: head of light | Martin Leuze: light | Julia Mott: cutter | Leonora Scheib: production | Marie Steiner: unit manager | Samuel Stoll: horn, trumpet | Marie Steiner: dancer, performer | Lenard Gimpel: sound installation | Paul Friedrich Frick: live electronics

Andreas Vierziger: music curator

This is the sound of Austria | Austria Tourism and MuseumsQuartier Wien, 2020

Augmented reality music experience on your smartphone with trigger points at the grand courtyard of MuseumsQuartier Wien as well as trigger points online. In cooperation with MuseumsQuartier, Austria Tourism, University Mozarteum Salzburg, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Tanqzquartier Wien, Tonspur, Architekturzentrum Wien, Leopold Museum and others.

Music by G.F. Haas, A. Webern, E. Schulhoff, J. Haydn, J. Wozny, F. Schubert, G. Ligeti, and sound works by W. Mitterer and C. Fennesz

Andreas Vierziger: curator and overall consultant

Baroque Modifications | Budapest Spring Festival, 2020

Violin, modular sythesizer, high-performance laser

Baroque works for solo violin by J.G. Pisendel, J.S. Bach, H.I.F. Biber, G.P. Telemann as well as noise and sounds of the violin and the modular synthesizer are being translated to organic oscillations as well as strictly geometrical structures through high performance laser patterns. Developed for the Budapest Spring Festival, cancelled due to COVID shortly before premiere

Bernhard Rasinger: modular sythesizer and laser | Iskandar Widjaja: violin

Andreas Vierziger: curator and initiator

Requiem | Vienna Konzerthaus, 2019

Chamber music concert with animated live videos on large screens commissioned by Jeunesse Austria at Vienna Konzerthaus.

G. Puccini: Crisantemi | W.A. Mozart: Requiem in d-Moll K. 626 (version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal/*1778).

Simply Quartet: string quartet | Aron Kitzig: video artist

Andreas Vierziger: curator and initiator

The Space between the Lines - Gut gegen Nordwind | Sony Pictures, 2019

Director: Vanessa Jopp | Script: Jane Ainscough | Author: Daniel Glattauer

Cast: Nora Tschirner, Alexander Fehling, Ulrich Thomsen and others

Andreas Vierziger: Classical Music Supervisor

GRAFENEGG | Grafenegg Campus, 2019

Consulting Grafenegg’s Campus activities, structure and strategy focusing on Grafenegg’s own programs as the composer-conductor-workshop Ink Still Wet and Grafenegg Academy as well as focusing on the cooperations with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Lower Austria, the European Chamber Music Academy and the European Union Youth Orchestra.

Goldberg² | Contemporary Art Festival Budapest, 2019

8-channel electroacoustic installations as commissioned works, reflecting on Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The works were presented in a loop for the duration of one week:

Máté Janky: aaarrrriiiiiiaaaaaaa | Bálint Baráth: Goldberg Sound Variations | Bálint Laczkó: Birds of The Golden Forest | Michał Janocha: Spatial Counterpoint

Andreas Vierziger: curator and initiator

Manila Fringe Festival | Laboratory for Social Impact through the Arts and Culture, 2019

Creating a lecturing series and multi-day laboratory focusing on cultural and artistic projects that have an impact on society. Participants were from Metro Manila as well as international participants and artists taking part in Manila Fringe Festival.

Lower Austrian Culture Awards | Jury Member, 2019-2024

Jury member of the annual culture awards of Lower Austria. These prizes on federal state level have been existing since 1960.

Borders of Shade | David Lynch’s Silencio Paris, 2018

Violin performance with visual live animation by William Wilson Doppelgänger to J.S. Bach’s Partita No. 1 for violin solo BWV 1002

Each movement of this particular Bach partita is followed by a variation (always called double), which elaborates on the chords of the prior movement. Video animations to all movements. Identical twins and artist duo William Wilson Doppelgänger often focus on duplications and dualism in their work. The violin performance was being followed by a DJ set by the artist duo.

Johannes Pramsohler: baroque violin | William Wilson Doppelgänger: video animation and projection

Andreas Vierziger: curator and initiator

transition:autmn | PODIUM Festival Mödling, 2018

Concert on the first day of Autumn with projections on highly reflecting and moveable surfaces and sound installations before, after and in the intermission of the concert.

E. Satie: Gnossiennes 1 – 4 for harp | G. Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn (1965) | J.  Brahms: Violin Sonata in G, op. 78 “Rain Sonata”

Elisabeth Plank: harp | Soo-Hyun Park: violin | Doris Nicoletti, alto flute | Christoph Moser: clarinet | Luca Lavuri and Kasumi Yui: piano

Andreas Vierziger: co-founder and artistic director or the festival until 2018

Podium Festival Mödling (*2013) was awarded with the 2018 Cultural Prize of Lower Austria.

Manila Fringe Festival | Laboratory for Interdisciplinarity, 2018

Creating a lecturing series and multi-day laboratory focusing on interdisciplinary collaborations between music and other disciplines. Participants were from Metro Manila as well as international participants and artists taking part in Manila Fringe Festival.

Günther Caspar Foundation | Career Advancement Program 2018 - 2020

Lecturing, mentoring and consulting the participants of the 2018 - 2020 term’s Career Advancement Program during the sessions in Switzerland.

Cosmos.Night.Sky | PODIUM Festival Mödling, 2017

Topical concert with soundscapes and floating overlay projections on scrims

J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fuge in C BWV 870 (part of the Voyager Golden Record) | J. Cage: Nocturno for violin and piano | K. Stockhausen: Zodiac | F. Schubert: Nocturno in E-flat D. 897, The world of the stars D 307, Mother Earth D 788, Evening Star D 806, Parhelia D 911, Sky Sparks D 651, To the Moon D 193 | M. Bruch: Nocturno op. 83 No. 6 | K. Saariaho: Cloud Trio

G. Haumer: baritone | T. Schmidinger: clarinet | S. Roczek: violine | J. Pennetzdorfer: viola | D. Pennetzdorfer: cello | D. Baar and V. Kopjova: piano | Aron Kitzig: video artist | Ricardo Tovar-Mateus: sound installation

Andreas Vierziger: co-founder and artistic director or the festival until 2018

Podium Festival Mödling (*2013) was awarded with the 2017 Maecenas Recognition Award of Lower Austria.