Hannes Löschel

Hannes Löschel (born 1963 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer of avant-garde electronic music. Löschel began playing the piano when he was five years old. Following his music education at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, he initially performed contemporary music on stage. From c. 1990 onwards, he began developing works that spanned several styles as a composer, ensemble conductor and arranger. In 1995, he founded the Austrian trio Löschel Skrepek Zrost, with Paul Skrepek and Martin Zrost, who won the Hans Koller Preis for album of the year for their first CD While You Wait in 1997. He subsequently worked on a range of styles in formations including the electro-acoustic formation antasten together with Thomas Lehn and Josef Novotny, the free improvisation trio Kinds with David Tronzo as well as together with Phil Minton in Songs of Innocence ‘, the song cycle he composed in 2008. Other formations co-founded or led by Löschel were, among others, the duo Chroma with Elisabeth Flunger, Phls Trio with Peter Herbert and Paul Skrepek, the Velvet Lounge, Kratky Baschik, Kinds of Orchestra, Hannes Löschel Stadtkapelle and weana korn. He has performed concerts and tour dates at numerous fe