Silent Ektase

Silent Ektase 

Ein zitheriger Trommelfellner
Stickert still und reibert kluge
Am Saitenkörper set drum rum
Und atmet FX im vollen Zuge

Eva Reiter

Born in 1976 in Vienna, she studied recorder and viola da gamba at the University of Music in Vienna and continued both studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. In 2006 she completed both master’s degrees cum laude, with a focus on contemporary composition. Eva Reiter works as a musician, composer, lecturer, artistic coordinator and curator. She teaches courses in early music and contemporary composition (ARCO – Art Research and Creation, Marseille; Voix Nouvelles Academy, Royaumont, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Vienna Contemporary Composers Festival, among others).

Since 2020 she has been teaching composition at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, where she also heads the course „experimental improvisation practice”. In 2021 she was awarded a comprehensive grant from the City of Vienna for the artistic research project Transforming Instrumental Gestures (until 2024). Since 2024, she has additionally been teaching „ensemble work for composers“ at the Mozarteum Salzburg and became the new associated composer at the composition Cursus of IRCAM in fall 2025. Since 2026 she works as artistic coordinator for the Belgian ensemble Ictus.

Eva Reiter performs as a soloist and with various orchestras, ensembles for early and contemporary music (including ensemble Multilatérale, Klangforum Wien and Ictus – of which she has been a permanent member of since 2015).

Her work as a composer has received multiple awards. Her compositions have been performed at international festivals such as Transit, Ars Musica, ISCM World New Music Festival, generator, Wien Modern, Klangspuren, Aspekte Salzburg, Sommer in Stuttgart, MaerzMusik, musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Festival Archipel, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Musica Strasbourg, Kunstenfestivaldasarts Brussels, and Wiener Festwochen, among others. In the 2019/20 season, Eva Reiter was a resident artist at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and at the Wiener Konzerthaus. In 2024 she was co-curator of Klangspuren Tirol.

www.evareiter.net

Judith Schwarz

Born in 1989 in Vienna, Judith Schwarz studied jazz drums at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz and at Jazzcampus, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in Basel, where she spent an Erasmus semester. She completed her master’s degree in 2018 and has since been working nationally and internationally as a drummer, composer and bandleader in the fields of jazz and improvised music.

As a musician and composer, Judith Schwarz is active in a wide range of projects, including other:M, chuffDRONE, Beyond the Beat, Mel*E, Little Rosies Kindergarten and PRCDR, her duo with Manu Mayr. As a sideman, she is involved in ensembles and projects such as Gina Schwarz Pannonica Project, Christian Muthspiel’s Orjazztra, Anna Anderluh Trioand the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra. Her artistic collaborations include musicians such as Maria Portugal, Ingrid Jensen, Sylvie Courvoisier, Karin Hammar, Camila Meza, Angelika Niescier and Julia Hülsmann.

Her artistic practice extends beyond the concert context into theatre, dance and interdisciplinary performance. In 2019, she appeared as a soloist in Bastian Kraft’s Burgtheater production Mephisto. Further interdisciplinary collaborations include the international cooperation project Sound Collector (2020), Kran Etüde with Katharina Ernst and Florentina Holzinger (2023), and the performance Make It Count (2024).

Judith Schwarz’s international concert activities have taken her to festivals and venues including Jazz Festival Ljubljana, Jazz & Wine of Peace Festival, Jazzfestival Alto Adige, Jazz in the Native Yards, Moers Festival, Jazztopad, Jazz in the Ruins, Jazz Festival Buenos Aires, Jazzfestival Berlin and Jazzfestival Saalfelden.

Her discography includes numerous releases with her own projects and collaborations. Recent releases include materialwith other:M (Klanggalerie, 2026), PROUD with Mel*E (Jazzwerkstatt Records, 2026), Natascha Gangl/Judith Schwarz(Bureau Le Fou, 2026), PRCDR with Manu Mayr (Klanggalerie, 2025), Du Bleda Bua with Little Rosies Kindergarten(Mandelbaum Verlag, 2024), metamorph with other:M (Klanggalerie, 2023), EXPLORATIONS with Little Rosies Kindergarten (Listen Closely, 2023), as well as Sound Collector by Duo Hofmaninger/Schwarz and Mosaik by chuffDRONE (Ö1 Edition Jazz Contemporary, 2022).

www.judithschwarz.at