Thomas Larcher


Thomas Larcher is an Austrian composer and pianist.

Biography

Education, work as a pianist

Thomas Larcher completed his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna under Heinz Medjimorec and Elisabeth Leonskaja, and Erich Urbanner. He became well known as a pianist whilst at university, focusing particularly in the area of contemporary music.
Larcher has performed under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Dennis Russell Davies and Franz Welser-Möst, and worked closely with composers such as Heinz Holliger, Olga Neuwirth and Isabel Mundry. He is also active in the sphere of music festivals: he founded the “Sound Traces/Klangspuren” festival and the “Music in the Giant/Musik im Riesen” festival, which he has been running since 2004.

Work as a composer

For some years now, Larcher has dedicated himself primarily to composing and is today considered one of the leading composers of contemporary classical music in Austria. His early works are scored almost exclusively for piano and chamber orchestra. In recent years, his oeuvre has also encompassed, alongside chamber music, more compositions for orchestra and ensemble, as well as works for soloist and orchestra.
Larcher has written numerous compositions for internationally renowned soloists and ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, the Artemis Quartet, Heinrich Schiff, Matthias Goerne, Till Fellner, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He has been commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, London’s Southbank Centre and Wigmore Hall, and the Zaterdagsmatinee in Amsterdam.

Selected works

;Opera
;Orchestral works
;Orchestral works with solo instrument
;Ensemble works
;Chamber music
;Piano
;Vocal
CDs with music by Thomas Larcher
CDs with Thomas Larcher as interpreter