Since its foundation in 2016, Cantando Admont has regularly appeared at renowned festivals and venues such as the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, the Vienna Festival and the Wien Modern Festival, the steirischer herbst, the Munich Biennale, Eight Bridges Festival in Cologne, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikverein, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens.
Along with its artistic director Cordula Bürgi, Cantando Admont has worked with conductors such as Beat Furrer, Pablo Heras-Casado, David Robertson, Matthias Pintscher and Jordi Savall. In the 2027 season the ensemble will perform for the first time under the direction of Marie Jacquot and Eva Ollikainen.
The vocal ensemble’s programmes combine early and new music and in this way cover many centuries of music history. The ensemble’s specialization in contemporary music as well as in that of the Renaissance makes it unique in Austria.
An essential part of Cantando Admont’s work is the ensemble’s regular collaborations with composers such as Beat Furrer, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Peter Ablinger, Elisabeth Harnik, Klaus Lang, Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis, Laure M. Hiendl and Marco Momi. In March 2025 Cantando Admont played a major role in the world premiere of Beat Furrer’s choral opera Das grosse Feuer at the Zurich Opera House.
In 2019 Cantando Admont set up its own concert discussion series, ‘Concert Talk’, in Graz, with the aim of establishing a new concert tradition. This series features pieces commissioned from internationally renowned composers as well as works by composers based in Graz and Styria. Other concert series have been set up under the titles ‘Solo Cantando’ and ‘Junge Stimmen’. Since 2023 the vocal ensemble has also had its own concert series in Vienna.
Continuing collaborations with Klangforum Wien and the ensemble PHACE allow Cantando Admont to give world premieres of important choral-orchestral works. Cantando Admont also works with orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Zurich and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, as well as with KNM Berlin, Ensemble Nikel and the duo Nimikry.
