A point of encounter

OlgaNeuwirth

1968—

Composer · Multimedia artist

Austria

Contemporary

Overview

A creative life.

Olga Neuwirth works across concert music, opera, film and installation. Born in Graz, she studied in Vienna and San Francisco, where visual art and film also became part of her education. Her collaborations with writers and performers frequently bring live music into contact with electronics and images. Rather than treating these media as separate worlds, her projects make their interaction part of the artistic question. Orlando, based on Virginia Woolf, and the piano work locus...doublure...solus offer different scales of encounter with a practice concerned with unstable identities, shifting perspectives and the possibilities of sound.

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Cultural context

Austrian and international contemporary music; practice connecting sound, film, literature and visual art.

Musical Language

Neuwirth often sets familiar instrumental identities in unfamiliar surroundings. In locus...doublure...solus, a sampler doubles and alters the solo piano’s sonic world, while microtonal relationships and sharply changing gestures unsettle the ensemble around it. Her wider practice joins live players, electronics and visual media, using changes of perspective and sound colour as active parts of musical form.[1][2][3]

A point of encounter

Listen & Discover

A few paths into the music. Follow a recording, a score, or the composer’s catalogue.

01 / Catalogue

Orlando

Explore the authorized record of the Vienna State Opera’s Orlando, with Kate Lindsey and conductor Matthias Pintscher.

Verified label/distributor catalogue 760708. Page states “Not available in the USA” and product availability is restricted. This is a recording catalogue resource, not a promise of free streaming. IRCAM audio pages for locus were discoverable but timed out and are not used as a verified listening destination.

Explore the C Major recording catalogue

View work details [3][1]

Selected works

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2 / 2 · Selected Works — not a complete catalogue.

Selected works table
Work	Year & catalogue	Forces & genre	Resources & verification
locus...doublure...solus	2001	Solo piano and ensemble, including sampler Concertante ensemble work	Bote & Bock / Boosey & Hawkes Catalogue / resource — External website; opens in a new tab Source-checked[2] 2026-10-15
Orlando	2019	Solo voices, chorus and orchestra Opera	Catalogue / resource — External website; opens in a new tab Source-checked[1][3] 2026-10-15

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Research

Sources & further reading

Original editorial summaries, checked against the sources below. Linked catalogues and recordings remain with their publishers and archives.

Composer / specialist resource
Olga Neuwirth — official biography — External website; opens in a new tab
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes — locus...doublure...solus, ensemble version — External website; opens in a new tab
Specialist resource
Naxos / C Major — Orlando, Vienna State Opera recording — External website; opens in a new tab

Last reviewed: 15 October 2026

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