ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE

ensemble LUX: Louise Chisson, Thomas Wally, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg and Mara Achleitner

The Viennese string quartet ensemble LUX is primarily dedicated to the performance and promotion of modern and contemporary music. Since its formation in 2004, it has continuously held a strong presence in the Austrian contemporary music scene. Numerous works have been composed especially for, and subsequently premiered by the quartet. ensemble LUX has performed all across Austria, including at the Aspekte Festival Salzburg, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Graz (KULTUM), the Bregenz Festival, the Feldkirch Festival, Wien Modern, and Imago Dei Krems. The quartet was heard in a total of 19 performances of the highly acclaimed production “Johnny Breitwieser. Eine Verbrecher-Ballade aus Wien”, in the Schauspielhaus Wien, where it accompanied the actors with “clockwork precision” (Wiener Zeitung). In 2022, ensemble LUX performed a cycle of three concerts at the Jewish Liberal Community Vienna – Or Chadasch with the title “Music. Judaism. Vienna.”

 

International concert tours have included performances in Germany at the Unerhörte Musik Berlin series, the Konzertring Aalen and at the Forum Zeitgenössische Musik Leipzig, in Spain at the Jornadas de Música Contemporánea Sevilla, in Poland at the Poznańska Wiosna Muzyczna, the Festival MusicOlomouc and at the Krakow Academy of Music, and in Paris, France at the Théâtre Dunois. A North American tour brought the quartet to the Austrian Cultural Forum New York as well as to Montréal and Toronto, Canada.

 

 

ensemble LUX first appeared at Wien Modern in 2008, followed by further concerts in 2010 and 2012. At Wien Modern 2013, ensemble LUX performed the world premiere and several performances of “Das Märchen vom alten Mann”, a music theater piece for children by Thomas Wally, at Dschungel Wien.

 

Critics have repeatedly praised the high standard of the ensemble. Lucia Maloveskà (Opera Plus) wrote about a concert by ensemble LUX in Prague: “The evening fulfilled all expectations of a high-quality performance: many impressions, emotions and special new impulses. There are still not enough concerts during which one has the opportunity to hear contemporary music at such a high level.” After a guest performance in Baden-Württemberg in 2023, the Schwäbische Zeitung wrote: “ensemble LUX presented itself in all three pieces as an extremely homogeneous, experienced and technically highly accomplished quartet.”

 

During the 2024/25 season, ensemble LUX can be heard at Schönberg-Haus Mödling and MuTh, as well as in international performances in Budapest (Sonus Foundation) and Switzerland (Zofingen and Riehen). The ensemble will once again be a guest at Wien Modern, and has been invited to perform a concert at the Impuls Festival Graz in February 2025.

ensemble LUX

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