Florian Bogner

The Austrian sound designer Florian Bogner works freelance in the fields of sound design, live electronics, audio engineering and computer music. Since 2026 he has been senior artist for live electronics at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and from 2018 to 2026 he headed the sound department at the MusikTheater an der Wien.

With Klangforum Wien he is responsible for electroacoustic conception, support and implementation as well as sound design. Projects have taken him to venues including the Teatro Real, Madrid, the Paris Opéra and the Mannheim National Theatre, and to festivals including the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music, the Donaueschingen Music Festival, the Wien Modern Festival, the Ultima Festival Oslo, Rainy Days Luxembourg and the Berlin, Bregenz and Salzburg Festivals.

He has handled recording, mixing and mastering for diverse CD productions for labels such as KAIROS and col legno. He has also composed music for stage productions, documentaries and commercials.

Together with Markus Urban he founded the electronic duo Kilo, and with the saxophonist Lars Mlekusch he created the Duo Saxophonic. Alongside his concert activity both in Austria and abroad he has released several CDs.

From 2003 to 2005 and in the 2012/13 season he was a university lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Between 2014 and 2016 he was a research associate in the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded research project ‘Performance Practice of Electroacoustic Music’ at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology in Zurich, where he taught until 2026.

Florian Bogner was born in Klosterneuburg and studied at the Electroacoustic Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and from 2013 to 2016 on the master’s programme in electroacoustic composition at Zurich’s University of the Arts.