how we met
In 2019, four outstanding musicians based in Austria decided to form an ensemble for new music and dedicated themselves to curiosity, exploration, collaboration and creativity.
what we want
We came together to offer a unique formation to the contemporary Austrian music scene: voice, flutes, accordion, and percussion. Along with performing international and regional repertoire, it is to collaborate with the composers of our time as well as visual artists, philosophers, and dancers that inspire the four Viennese musicians to create well-thought programs reflecting the preoccupations of our modern society.
what we did
As a New Austria Sound of Music (NASOM) ensemble for 2023 and 2024, Maria Mogas Gensana (accordion), Elīna Viļuma-Helling (soprano), Hannes Schöggl (percussion), and Audrey G. Perreault (flutes) commissioned several composers working in Austria to imagine new pieces to represent the current Austrian sound: Klaus Lang, Petra Stump-Linshalm, Aaron Ludwig, Alexander Kaiser, Manuela Meier, Pedro Berardinelli, Nava Hemyari, Tanja Brueggemann, Yulan Yu and Emre Sihan Kaleli. Collaborations with mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Mostra Sonora Sueca in Spain, Project DME in Portugal, Le Vivier in Montreal in Canada, and Frakzionen in Bielefeld, Germany, are also planned for the following years.
how we work
Between feathers developed programmatically coherent programs, including, Changing Lights, Ulysses 2022, A Room of One’s Own vol 1 and 2, Seems Like A Portal and Between Conditions which they have performed in music series such as Wien Modern, New Musik Forum Ljubljana, Impuls Festival in Graz, Musik+ in Hall in Tirol, Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht, Alte Schmiede and Echoraum in Vienna, Open Music in Graz, the Åbne Scene at Godsbanen in Aarhus, Denmark, NOW! Oper der Gegenwart in Graz, in Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, Malta and in the Zionskirche Bielefeld, Germany. They have premiered and commissioned pieces by Yulan Yu, Sergi Puig, Scott Rubin, Antonis Rouvelas, Sebastian Adams, Kirstine Lindemann, Lorenzo Troiani, Flora Geißelbrecht, and Tamara Friebel. Between feathers is funded by SKE / Austro mechana, the City of Vienna, the City of Graz, Land Steiermark, the Austrian government (BMKOES), and the Godsbanen residency in Denmark.
