HGNM x airborne extended

Join us for an evening of four world premieres by resident ensemble airborne extended!

Featuring new works by:

Victor Arul

Marisse Cato

Weilu Ge

Maximiliano Soto Mayorga

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

airborne extended is a quartet for contemporary music consisting of flute, recorder/Paetzold, harp and harpsichord, with electronics, objects and performance.

The ensemble was founded in 2013 and its unique instrumental combination offers the possibility of creating a wide range of new sounds and colors that in recent years has inspired several generations of composers from all over the world. Its constantly growing repertoire counts more than 80 premieres – working with both up-and-coming and established composers.

As a selected ensemble for NASOM 2018/19 - New Austrian Sound of Music airborne extended was official Austrian cultural ambassador and performed at international venues and festivals such as Wien Modern, musikprotokoll Graz, Stanislawsky Electrotheatre Moscow, Kalv Festivalen, Poznan Music Spring, Tempo Reale Festival, Vancouver New Music, National Opera Athen and many more.

Besides its concert-activities, airborne extended offers regularly lectures and workshops for composers and instumentalists and already collaborated with different academic institutions such as Kunstuni Graz, Bruckner University Linz, Tiroler Landeskonservatorium Innsbruck, Anadolu Üniversitesi Eskişehir, Bilkent University Ankara, State Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow, Royal Academy Aarhus, Academy of Music and Drama Gothenburg.

In 2025 airborne extended was honoured with the “Outstanding Artist Award” from Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Sport and Media (BMWKMS).

Airborne extended is supported by the Federal Ministry for Culture (BMWKMS), the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (BMEIA), The City of Vienna (MA7 Stadt Wien-Kultur) and SKE austromechana.

Host or Publisher Harvard Group for New Music