Composer · B. 1968
Olga Neuwirth
Biography
Olga Neuwirth
(b Graz, 4 Aug 1968). Austrian composer. Some of her early compositions were performed at the Styrian Autumn Festival in 1985.
She studied at the San Francisco Conservatory (1986–7) with Elinor Armer, among others, and took courses in painting and the cinema at the San Francisco Art College. She continued her studies at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik (1987–93), where her teachers included Erich Urbanner, Dieter Kaufmann and Wilhelm Zobl, and in Paris with Tristan Murail and the Stage d'Informatique Musicale at IRCAM (1993–4). She has also been influenced by Adriana Hölsky and Luigi Nono.