Christian Diendorfer

Christian Diendorfer was born in 1957 in Niederösterreich (Austria). He studied composition with Francis Burt and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati as well as music pedagogy and instrumental pedagogy (piano and recorder) at the university for music in Vienna. Studies at the institutes for electronic music at the university of Vienna and the technical university in Berlin provided further important impulses for his work.

Numerous prizes document his early success. He has received commissions from the Donaufestival (Niederösterreich), from the festival „Hörgänge”, the ORF, Jeunesse, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and the Landestheater Linz, as well as from various ensembles (Ensemble XX. Jhdt./Peter Burwik, Kontrapunkte / Peter Keuschnig, die reihe / Walter Kobéra, Wiener Kammerorchester / Sascha Götzel). His works have been performed at the festivals "Wien Modern", "Hörgänge", "StART Festival aktueller Musik" / Salzburg and "Bregenzer Festspiele".

Sound installations, early works for theater and orchestral compositions for the Mozarteum Orchester and the RSO Slowenia with the conductor Johannes Kalitzke and the "Opera Nova" Ensemble Zürich with Franz Welser-Möst were further stations in Christian Diendorfer’s career, which is documented by two portrait CD’s ("an satz weisen" and "setzt fort" / Extraplatte).

Since 1988 the composer has also been active as a teacher for piano, music theorie and analysis and as a conductor of his own works. He also creates contemporary concert-projects and music-art-events with children and young persons (Sammlung Essl / Klosterneuburg, Art / Brut Center Gugging und im Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna).

He also received many commissions for national and international instrumental competition concerts, his music for young persons has been played worldwide.

Recently some of his new commissioned works had their first performance at the Musikverein in Vienna (200 years Anniversary), for example songs for baritone and ensemble: "… ist eine spielerische Art bei Nacht" and "Hubano Arien" with Adrian Eröd (2012).

Further first performances also at the Schönberg Center in Vienna, "Alte Schmiede", at the ORF Radiokulturhaus and again often at the Musikverein Wien, 2015 Electric Psi for E-harpsichord and chamber orchestra at the Wien Modern Festival.

2018 Premiere of his commissioned opera Die Wand at the Musiktheater Linz after the novel from Marlen Haushofer, the libretto is written by Hermann Schneider. 2019 nahe - am Wald for Mezzosopran und chamber orchestra at the Musikverein / Wien.

From 2020 start of his work on his second opera DIE IKONEN.

He lives and works in Vienna and in the Salzkammergut.