Since its foundation in 2016, Cantando Admont has regularly appeared at renowned festivals and venues such as the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, the Wien Modern Festival, the steirischer herbst, the Munich Biennale, Eight Bridges 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.
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, under the direction of Cordula Bürgi, makes it unique, especially in Austria.
In 2019 Cantando Admont set up its own concert discussion series, ‘Concert Talk’, in Graz, with the aim of establishing a new concert tradition. Compositions performed in this series include pieces commissioned from internationally established composers as well as works by composers based in Graz and Styria. A second series of concerts, entitled ‘Solo Cantando‘, has been set up: this is intended to enable audiences to experience the unique qualities of the excellent singers of Cantando Admont even more intensely and directly. Since 2023 the vocal ensemble has also established its own concert series in Vienna. In addition, in 2023 Cantando Admont made its first guest appearance at the Vienna Festwochen. In March 2025, the world premiere of Beat Furrer’s first major choral opera Das große Feuer, in which Cantando Admont will play a key role, is scheduled to take place at the Zurich Opera House.
An essential part of Cantando Admont’s work is the ensemble’s regular collaborations with leading composers such as Beat Furrer, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Peter Ablinger, Elisabeth Harnik, Klaus Lang, Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis, Laure M. Hiendl and Marco Momi, as well as with various instrumental ensembles, including Klangforum Wien, the Ensemble PHACE, Ensemble Kontrapunkte, the dissonArt Ensemble, Ensemble Nikel, the Ictus Ensemble and Ensemble Schallfeld.
