Music Current 2026: Judith Fliedl (Concert)

PERFORMERS
Judith Fliedl, violin
Fergal Dowling, electronics

TEAM
Fergal McKeown, sound
Chris Keogh, video projection
Aidan Whelan, lighting
Paul Lynch, stage management

Judith Fliedl performs a tour de force programme of contemporary works for violin and electronics embracing all combinations of techniques: with classic live electronic instruments and effects (JeanClaude Risset’s Variants); with radical new technological interventions (Benedikt Alphart’s Ultraviolin); with synchronised "tape" (Gráinne Mulvey’s, Echium Pininana); with co-ordinated video (Manuel Zwerger’s new work); and with real-time interaction (Alexander Schubert’s, Weapon of Choice). 

Fliedl's transparent technique and expert mastery of the contemporary repertoire lays bare the musical material with refreshing directness, as if there is nothing between us and the music.

Fergal Dowling, Festival Director

The programme includes four Irish premieres and a world premiere of Benedikt Alphart's sonically stunning and acoustically revealing study of the violin's ultra-sound frequencies, which are bent and twisted to astonishing musical effect. There is also a second chance to hear Gráinne Mulvey's 'Echium Pininana', itself a technical tour de force in a single work. The programme closes with Alexander Schubert's 'Weapon of Choice', a study in action, synchronicity and multimedia connectivity as musical form.

Judith Fliedl, the Austrian-born violinist, has distinguished herself in recent years as a concertmaster, soloist and chamber musician. She has performed internationally in the USA, Canada, Korea, England, Germany, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, France and many other countries. In addition to engagements at renowned festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Windsor Festival, the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, the Pablo Casals Festival, the Maribor Festival, the Aurora Festival, the Musiktage Mondsee and the Impuls Festival Graz, she can be heard regularly at Austria's most important venues, such as the Vienna Konzerthaus or the Vienna Musikverein.

Since 2017, Judith Fliedl has been a member of the Trio Artio, which she co-founded and which served as the first "Featured Ensemble" of Jeunesse Austria in the 2019/20 season. The trio were prize-winners of the international chamber music competition "Massimiliano Antonelli", and has performed in Austria, France, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Italy, as well as at the Festival Musical Montreaux-Vevey, the Quincena Festival San Sebastian and the Mozart Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus.

As a Resident Member of Klangforum Wien, she is dedicated to the constant expansion of her chamber music and solo modern repertoire. In the process, she has worked with composers Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Johannes Maria Staud, Bernhard Gander, Johanna Doderer and Peter Ablinger. An important part of her work is researching and creating new, interdisciplinary concert formats. In the context of an artistic-research doctorate at the University of Arts Graz, Judith Fliedl is dedicated to exploring new concert possibilities for contemporary solo violin repertoire. https://judithfliedl.com

Programme

Jean-Claude Risset - Variants (for violin and live electronics), 6'
Benedikt Alphart - Ultraviolin (for violin and live electronics), 10–15' (premiere)
Gráinne Mulvey - Echium Pininana “Tower of Jewels” (for violin and tape), 16´
Manuel Zwerger - New Work (for violin and video), 7´
Alexander Schubert - Weapon of Choice (for violin, sensors, video), 9´

Tickets

€10 tickets until 28 February, €20/18 thereafter. Booking at Project Arts Centre.