With „Front Row Seat“, AVL Cultural Foundation, supporter and partner of impuls, offers a new channel to give voice and to promote artists and their activities.

In five episodes of „Front Row Seat“ for 2021, the nominees of the international impuls Composition Competition, are presented – all of them finding their impuls commissions premiered by Klangforum Wien at Helmut List Halle on August 16th this year as start of the impuls Festival 2021.

Find out more about composer Sonja Mutić’s work in this short film.

Find out more about composer Yiqing Zhu’s work in this short film.

Find out more about composer Emre Sihan Kaleli’s work in this short film.

Find out more about composer Alexander Kaiser´s work in this short film.

Find out more about composer Ole Hübner's work in this short film.

In 2020, businesses around the globe were forced to adjust to a new reality. In this special episode of AVL Cultural Foundation's "Front Row Seat" series, we will discuss these challenges with the directors of art and culture festivals in Graz, and learn how the pandemic has shaped their work.

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Antonia Zangger-Kreuzer, AIMS - American Institute of Musical Studies

Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber, Diagonale
Ute Pinter, impuls
Henriette Gallus, steirischer herbst
Mathis Huber, styriarte

Find out more about the festival´s work during the pandemic in this film (for subtitles check CC at right corner of video frame).