Georg Nussbaumer

composition, performance

Georg Nussbaumer
Foto: Peter Putz

Georg Nussbaumer (*1964) lives in Vienna and is regarded as a virtuoso "Gesamtkunstwerker" whose works are located between composition, installation art, performance and theatre. Large-format scenic works, which constitute multi-layered pictorial sound spaces and combine thematic and motivic stylistic elements to form large holistic structures, are juxtaposed with reduced sound installations or even non-sounding processes, which often deal with music, its history and effect and ultimately with its production. He works with highly specialized performers and musicians just as naturally as with an audience getting drunk or chewing gum, with archers, freedivers, a motorcycle club or hundreds of singers from rural amateur choirs. His work is shown internationally at festivals, theatres and exhibitions such as Donaueschingen Music Festival, Steirischer Herbst, Maerzmusik, soundscape Vilnius, Ring Festival Los Angeles, Opera Dagen Rotterdam, Teatr-e Shahr Tehran, Beethovenfest Bonn, and many more. For the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl 2024, he realized projects with choirs, shooters, marching bands, and a bell-laden railway carriage.

Featured in the following concerts

Incense of Music 70
Incense of Music 70
27 February 2026
Sophie Notte, Georg Nussbaumer — propolis, peony