Since its foundation in 2016, Cantando Admont has regularly appeared at renowned festivals and venues such as the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, the Vienna Festival and the Wien Modern Festival, the steirischer herbst, the Munich Biennale, Eight Bridges Festival 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 under the direction of Cordula Bürgi 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 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. This series features pieces commissioned from internationally renowned composers as well as works by composers based in Graz and Styria. Other concert series have been set up under the titles ‘Solo Cantando’ and ‘Junge Stimmen’; these are designed 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 had its own concert series in Vienna.
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. In March 2025 Cantando Admont played a major role in the world premiere of Beat Furrer’s choral opera Das große Feuer at the Zurich Opera House.
Cantando Admont also works with various ensembles and orchestras, including Klangforum Wien, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Zurich, PHACE, the dissonArt Ensemble, KNM Berlin and the ensembles Nikel, Ictus, Schallfeld and Proton Bern.
