The festival commissioned around 200 orchestral and ensemble works as of 2020, including compositions by Georg Friedrich Haas, Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, Johannes Maria Staud, Olga Neuwirth, Beat Furrer and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
Projects are advertised with unusual methods, and some performances scheduled in venues such as supermarkets, tennis halls and factories.
From 2019, the Austrian music curator and journalist Reinhard Kager has been artistic director.
[2] Due to the 2020 COVID19 pandemic, the program of the 2020 festival was changed to a focus on Austrian performers who have no travel restriction, and to small ensembles.
[1] The opening concert on 11 September combines works from the 21st century by Hannes Kerschbaumer, Adriana Hölszky and Gerd Kühr with English music from the 20th century by Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle, played by the Tiroler Symphonieorchester [de].