Thomas Larcher

Thomas Larcher completed his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna under Heinz Medjimorec and Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), and Erich Urbanner (composition).

Larcher has performed under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Dennis Russell Davies and Franz Welser-Möst, and worked closely with composers such as Heinz Holliger, Olga Neuwirth and Isabel Mundry.

Larcher has been composer in residence at Aldeburgh Festival,[3] Concertgebouw Amsterdam,[4] Elbphilharmonie Hamburg,[5] Wigmore Hall[6] and Musikdorf Ernen[7] in Switzerland.

He has written numerous compositions for internationally renowned soloists and ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, the Artemis Quartet, Heinrich Schiff, Matthias Goerne, Till Fellner, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Music by Thomas Larcher was used for the ballet “Kaspar Hauser”[8] by Tim Plegge and for “Die Liebe kann tanzen”[9] by Stephan Toss.