La Musa

La Musa is an international transdisciplinary project for new contemporary and present music, art and culture
initiated by Duo Muze - Diego Muné (AR) and Bernadette Zeilinger (AT),
active in France (Paris, Bordeaux, Bormes de Mimosas), Great Britain (London, Cheltenham), Switzerland (Zurich, Basel, Biel, Bern), Norway (Trondheim, Oslo), Czech Republic (Prague, Olomouc), Hungary (Budapest, Debrecen), Austria (Vienna, Salzburg, Linz, Ried im Innkreis, Graz), Germany (Bremen, Freiburg, Munich), Italy (Rome, Pisa, BresciaBogliasco, Monteggiori, Latina, Anzio, Turin, Genoa, Bogliasco, Nettuno, Anzio, San Giorgio del Sannio, Fasano, Noci - Puglia, Palazzolo - Sicily, Camaiore - Tuscany), USA (New York City, Hudson - New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland - Ohio, Grand Rapids - Michigan, Lafayette - Indiana, Iowa City, Omaha - Nebraska, Denver - Colorado, Wanship/ Tollgate Canyon - Utah, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Tucson, Oakland, Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, San Diego - California), Argentina (San Lorenzo), Mexico (Tijuana, Mexico City), Canada (Montreal), Hong Kong, China (Shanghai, Beijing), Japan (Tokyo, Hakodate), Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart - Tasmania), New Zealand (Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland) et al.

La Musa presents a programme with own up-to-date works of professional musicians and artists at more than 100 events every year with music, sound sculptures, dance, live painting, literature, cinema, film music, silent movies & live music, boat concerts, exhibitions, workshops, master classes and so on at Schloss Schoenbrunn, Austrian National Library, Votivkirche, Otto-Wagner-Kirche, Ruprechtskirche, Konzerthaus, ORF RadioKulturhaus, Museumsquartier, Leopold Museum, WUK, Alte Schmiede, Porgy & Bess, Central Library, Japanese Embassy in Vienna, Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Stadtmuseum Munich, Museum of Modern Art in Olomouc, Belvedere Nettuno, Villa Adele Museo Archeologico in Anzio, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce in Genoa, Museo Contemporaneo in Latina, Hong Kong Arts Centre, MONA Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Testing Grounds in Melbourne, The Arts Centre of Christchurch, No Nation Gallery in Chicago, University Vienna, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland/ Music in Basel, University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, University San Diego, Northern Arizona University and many other venues.
La Musa is working in projects of scientific research and was collaborating with one of the biggest research centers: the CNR Pisa in Italy, where a team of doctors studied concerts of La Musa.
Go.ETe _ Contemporary Flute Festival, CIMT _ Festival in Vienna, the ensemble ORCHIDEE, Orchidee _ Miniatur Fest, Concert on Board and more is part of La Musa's playing schedule.

Composer and performer Bernadette Zeilinger holds degrees in Education (University of Vienna), Recorder (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) and in Specialized Music Performance (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland/ Music in Basel), where she studied with Alfred Zimmerlin and Fred Frith. In 2009 and in 2010 she was nominated for an Erasmus residency at Zurich University of the Arts. Already during the composition lessons of her studies, she specialized in the notation of contemporary playing techniques. She received the highest possible grade at her Master's concert. In 2009 she won an award from the Austrian International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) in recognition of a radio feature about contemporary music, 2011 the Fohn-Stipendium and Stipendium der Martha Wüthrich Stiftung, and 2013 the Startstipendium für Musik und darstellende Kunst des BMUKK. Bernadette Zeilinger has performed with Charlotte Hug, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Peter Herbert, Josef Ka, Ferdinand Schmatz and others. She has given concerts and master classes in several countries.  She performs solo as well as in various groups. She has developed her own musical language but is very flexible in her approach and often performs at readings, art exhibitions, films, audio and talking books. She values collaboration with performers who work in other genres and forms, so she has worked with many dancers, actors, story-tellers and painters.

Argentinean composer and guitar virtuoso Diego Muné performs with both passion and complexity. He grew up playing contemporary new music, classical music, Argentinean folk music, blues, jazz and other stiles. He started to develop special resonances on the guitar when he was a little child, so he found his very characteristic way of playing and developed a wide spectrum of different sounds. The warmness of his music makes it intense and expressive. Touching and full of energy he creates flowing phrases, moving melodies and pulsating rhythm in quick succession, endlessly surprising with his inspiring innovations. He performs a variety of stiles both solo and in several formations. He has performed for example with Clementine Gasser, Maggie Nicols, Otto Lechner, Paul Rogers, Helmut Neugebauer, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Ferdinand Schmatz, Michael Fischer and the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra. He has played on more than 500 CD productions, recorded music for several films and took part in different kinds of multidisciplinary projects.
Diego Muné is also working in scientific research projects. He collaborated with one of the biggest research centers: the CNR Pisa in Italy, where a team of doctors studied his solo concerts.
He was the musical director of the film "El Gran Vuelo", which won prizes of SomCinema, Malaga Film Festival, Alcances, CIMA, AICE, Feroz Puerta Oscura, Sole Luna and others.
He also made together with Bernadette Zeilinger the original music of the film "Ainhoa, yo no soy esa", which again was presented and received awards at several festivals: Malaga Film Festival (two awards on its premiere: the Public Prize and the "Biznaga de Plata", the first prize to the best documentary), DocumentaMadrid 2018 (two awards: Special Mention of the National Film Jury and the Film Institute Award for the Best Sound), D'A Film Festival Barcelona ...

La Musa: www.la-musa.net