Photographer: Werner Kern ©
She studied piano performance at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. Her master's thesis was about "Anarchie in der Kunst am Beispiel John Cage" [Anarchy in Art as Exhibited by John Cage], and did her "Habilitation" [post-doctoral degree] in piano in 2002. She is an instructor at the Vienna Days of Contemporary Piano Music as well as at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
She has given numerous concerts all across Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Her compositions are mostly for piano with added electronics such as "Trains" (for the Turning Sound Festival in Warsaw and Player Piano Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, 2006) and "Here We Go" (for the Nownow Festival in Sydney, 2007), or they arose from collaborative efforts with improvising musicians. Special commitment to Avantgarde and the 2nd Viennese School with solo evenings, world premieres and Austrian premieres. In the field of improvisation projects for film, theater and dance.
Period | Education | Instrument | Teacher | Education Organisation | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
lessons with Oleg Maisenberg | |||||
master's thesis was about "Anarchie in der Kunst am Beispiel John Cage" [Anarchy in Art as Exhibited by John Cage] |
Period | Activity | Organisation | Location |
---|---|---|---|
1984
|
ever since lecturer for piano: performance, pedagogy - specialist class "Improvisation & New Developments in Contemporary Music" | ||
1984 - 1989
|
assistant professor at the department of strings | ||
1989 - 1994
|
assistant professor for piano performance, piano pedagogy at the department of keyboard instruments / pedagogy | ||
1994 - 2002
|
associate professor for piano performance, piano pedagogy at the department of keyboard instruments / pedagogy | ||
1995
|
ever since lecturer | ||
2002
|
promoted professor for piano | ||
2002
|
ever since more focused on working as a composer and conceptual artist | ||
2002
|
ever since teaching improvisation and didactics of contemporary music and improvisation | ||
2011
|
ever since lecturer for improvisation | ||
board member | |||
concerts in Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Albania, Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain, Australia and Austria | |||
collaborations with Luca Lombardi, Christian Wolff, Peter Ablinger, Christian Ofenbauer, Dieter Schnebel, Radu Malfatti, Katharina Klement, Klaus Hollinetz, Gerhard E. Winkler, Alois Haberl, Patrizia Martinez, Konrad Rennert, K.H.Essl, Hannes Raffaseder, Michael Edwards a.m.m. | |||
numerous workshops for free improvisation | |||
projects for film (a.o. for "lovers walk" by Oliver Hangl, or with the movie-club Drosendorf), theater and dance | |||
cooperation and improvisation-concerts with numerous musicians, among them e.g. Franz Hautzinger, Burkhard Stangl, Axel Dörner, Cordula Boesze, Yoshihide Otomo, Christof Kurzmann, Andrea Neumann, Christian Wolff, Peter Herbert, Gunter Schneider, John Tilbury, Jon Rose, Veryan Weston, Elisabeth Schimana, Josef Novotny, Mia Zabelka, Martin Zrost. a.m.m. | |||
special interest in Avantgarde and the 2nd Viennese School, premieres and several Austrian first performances |
Period | Performance | Composition | Organisation | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|
2005
| ||||
2005
|
musician in residence | |||
2006
| ||||
2006
| ||||
2007
| ||||
2007
| ||||
2008
| ||||
2008
| ||||
2009
|
Portrait Manon Liu-Winter | |||
2009
| ||||
2010
| ||||
2010
|
Manon-Liu Winter playing on the Max Brand Synthesizer, ISEA2010 RUHR Concerts/Day of Sound | |||
2011
| ||||
2011
|
Period | Commission | Composition | Commissioner (Organisation) | Commissioner (Person) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Austrian Broadcasting | ||||
Austrian Broadcasting | ||||
Tanzhotel Wien | ||||
2005
| ||||
2009
|
Stylistically between postmodern, electronic and avant-garde:
Technically, my compositions are mostly for piano, including environmental sounds, which I compose as a playback via laptop and then adapt them to the respective concert situations in the temporal and spatial dimensions. For me noise-like and individual sounds are equal, but carriers of different contents.
Manon Liu Winter, 2008
2010
Etwas harscher (als das Duo Cordula Bösze & Annette Giesriegl), in Richtung Hardcore-Kammermusik gehen Judith Unterpertinger, Katharina Klement und Manon-Liu Winter ans Werk, greifen ins Innere eines Klaviers und zweier Clavichorde, führen so nebenbei den Unsinn weltberühmter Klaviertrios à la Corea/Hancock/Zawinul ad absurdum und entwickeln aus feinst gesponnenen Klängen, durch Hämmern und Schaben und in stellenweise zauberhaften Miniaturen ein musikalisches Ganzes, in dem sich zart auf hart reimt.
freistil (Andreas Fellinger)
28. January 2008
Pianistic world explorations [...] Tinted sounds from the intestines of the grand piano, in addition in the echo chamber of reverberating quarter tone melodies from the trumpet, the finest noise tremolo from the bass: The music of Manon-Liu Winter, Franz Hautzinger and Clayton Thomas showed the strongest level of abstraction. These were sounds inspired by electronic sound microscopy, which transcended, thanks to the richness of overtones and a penchant for poetry. [...]
der Standard (Andreas Felber)
21. March 2007
Formulating Art
Manon-Liu Winter and Klaus Hollinetz desribe their half-hour improvisations in "Soundfishing" as timelessness with a linear sense of time - and are not exaggerating. The piano player and electronics technician prove a dramatic feel for the sound design of time, pause when it is worthwhile, pursue further the spectrum of emotions, before it gets boring. It does not matter, that their idea of the quest "for an extension of the sound possibilities of the interior of a grand piano" is not very new. Computer-based compression, extension, shift of unorthodox piano sounds is hardly ever produced in such a successful way - also regarding the sound, it seems as if a couple of loose, almost eerie tender chord shreds are blowing in the fog of the obligate crackling sound of the computer.
Falter (Carsten Fastner )
Discography: