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composer, producer, esraj player, performer

…did the music academies and forgot.

he breathes sound.

he lives in Graz until the political situation drives him away.

he composes contemporary and cinematic sounds.

he conducts and performs live with Indian instruments and synthesizers in experimental settings.

he loves people

activities

Live Esraj @ Tag der Religionen

So. Oct 19th 17:00
Volksgarten Stupa
Graz

Conducting STIO @ Achteckstadl

Fr. Sep 19th
Vernissage Menschenbilder
Achteckstadl Vasoldsberg

Karamarkovic//Denovaire @ pavelhaus

Sa. May 17th
Pavelhaus
8490 Bad Radkersburg

Improvised Music Festival Alpenglow 25 - Graz/Austria

STIO Festival 2025 – Denovaire-Stankovic-Ziegerhofer-Hattori

Fr. April 4th
StockwerkJazz,
8010 Graz

vita

Studies of Composition with G.F.Haas, Gerd Kühr, Pierreluigi Billone and Beat Furrer in Graz.

Studies of classical Indian music with Ustad Arshad Khan and Pandit Sukhdev Mishra in Delhi and Benares. Masterclasses with Bernhard Lang and @ Darmstädter Ferienkurse.

Founding of the IndiaFusion Ensemble „Dancing Shiva“ 2003, Founding of the Festival „Indiasphere“ in Graz (direction 2008-2010), Concerts in Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Belgrade, Graz, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Sarajewo, Delhi, Färoer, Copenhagen, Milano, Rome, Alpbach, Turin, Feldkirch, Mörbisch amo

Cooperations with: Styriarte, Ensemble Integrales, Ensemble Zeitfluss, Szene Instrumental, Schallfeld Ensemble, OchoResotto, Max Brand Ensemble, Stringquantet, Styrian Improviser’s Orchestra, Tiroler Ensemble für Neue Musik, GreenLobsterMedia a.m.o.

Denovaire works as a composer, conductor, game designer, synthesizer performer, and Esraj player as live- and studio musician in the fields: Modern Contemporary, Indian Music, Ambient, Jazz- Rock-Fusion, Electronic and Experimental Music, Orchestral Cinematic Music and adaptive game music. Also, he works as a music producer for various musicians and labels.

In 2012 he was awarded the State grant by the Austrian Government, also in 2012, he won the 1st prize in the Gustav Mahler composition competition.

Performances at Forum Alpbach in 2018 and opening of the Styriarte in 2022.

Denovaire lives and works in Graz.

works

[2025]

polycronia opera cybera
digital opera for 3 singers, speaker, electronics and virtual orchestra
“cybernetics” for 3 percussionists and 9 electric motors, Graz & Vienna

[2024]

Weihnachtswunder Mörbisch 2024 for orchestra & video projection
Interactive improvised installation “Utopia” at Grazer ImproFest

[2023]

Digital Opera “Transcendence”
Music for urban video installations at Lichtstadt Feldkirch and Klanglicht Graz /w OchoResotto

[2022]

Art direction/ creation of “Waveshifter”, an interactive audio game

Composition of the Opening of Styriarte 2022 with 100+ musicians

Audiologo design & audio for exhibitions of Graz Museum

[2021]

„dystopian pleasure III“ at „ring ring“ Festival Belgrade with Irina Karamarković, Grilli Pollheimer und W. Hattinger

Commissioned work for “Lichtstadt Feldkirch” for video on urban structures together with ochoResotto

Live@ v:nm Graz & Ljubljana with Katharina Klement and Samo Kutin & Matej Bunderla

Music Design for “the city as a datafield” at Stadtmuseum Graz

[2020]

Workshop at Private University Vienna

Creation of “modern composer’s channel” on Youtube

Performance at “styriarte” with Irina Karamarkovic

Performance at Panćevo Jazz Festival with Fish in Oil and Irina Karamarković

[2019]

Commission of an ensemble piece for Ensemble Ambitus

[2018-2020]

Creation of a 1000 piece cinematic library commissioned by welove.audio

[2018]

Co-Founding of “welove.audio”, a startup for adaptive music for video games

Assignment at Forum Alpbach for eight trombones

“dystopian pleasure II” at Minoritensaal Graz

Performance at World Peace day with Joanneum / Graz

[2017]

Publishing of the “esraj handbook”, a teaching book for the rare Indian instrument esraj.

Performance in Innsbruck with TENM

Performance together with Dancing Shiva and the Philharmonic Orchestra Graz in the Operahouse/Graz.

Commission for “Carmina Nova” from Vokalforum Graz and multiple performances plus CD Recording

Teaching at Kunstuniversität Graz

[2016]

Performances of Ensemble Schallfeld in Milano and Rome

Performance Concert “dystopian pleasure” for retro-futuristic ensemble with szene instrumental at Forum Stadtpark/Graz

Performance of “music for transition” in Vienna and Klagenfurt

Performance in Innsbruck with TENM at Harry Triendl’s “Zyklus IV”

[2015]

Performances of Schallfeld Ensemble in Brussels, Vienna and Graz

[2014]

Radio Portrait Concert in the Slovenian Radio (RTV SLO)

Performance at im musikprotokoll/ Steirischer Herbst within “Konfrontationen 5”

[2013-2016]

Theater works with Markus Jastraunig and Carla Almeida

[2013]

Performances of Max Brand Ensemble in Färöer and Denmark Performances of Ensemble Zeitfluss in Minoritensaal/ Graz;

Performance for esraj, samples and multiple speakers “Thokar #8” at Essl Museum / Vienna;

Music theater “mücken sind kernobst” with UniT/Graz, Sandra Schüddekopf and szene instrumental

Assistance for Bernhard Lang

[2012, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2024]

Participation in international music programs with v:nm

[2012]

“primary emotions” in Graz, Feldkirch and Salzburg, music for theater with Veza Fernandez, Alina Stockinger and Alexa Zach

Performance of “wolfpack” at Musikforum Viktring as the winning entry of Gustav Mahler composition competition

multiple music album productions

[2011]

Work for choirs and ensemble “muata erdn” with 100 musicians in Mumuth/Graz and Gleisdorf

[2010-2014]

Workshops with students within „Konfrontationen“ of School authority Styria

[2010, 2012, 2013]

Performances of „Grandvizier’s Chest“, an avant-garde/rock music production for 14 musicians at Porgy&Bess Vienna and Steyr and twice in Graz

[2008-2014]

Creation and direction of “Indiasphere”, a festival for Indian music and Dance in Graz

[2008-2014]

Creation and direction of “Indiasphere”, a festival for Indian music and Dance in Graz

[2006 & 2007]

“Steirischer Herbst” within the projects „Klangwege 2006“ and participation in the “Künstleratelier Dachstein-Cult“;

Performances at Stiftung Starke/Berlin and the Austrian Cultural Forum/ Berlin

compositions

Be water my friend
Bruce Lee

live on stage

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

contact

denovaire +43-650 939 2424
office[at]denovaire.at

bank account

Bank Austria
BLZ: 12000
paypal: office@denovaire.at
IBAN: AT631200010003836698
BIC: BKAUATWW

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photography by Nikola Milatovic, Illiya Pavlov, Mirjam Raneburger and denovaire

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