Thomas Larcher
composer
As a highly talented composition student, Thomas Larcher experienced the self-imposed intellectuality of the avant-garde in Vienna in the 1980s as a shock, which is why he initially concentrated on his work as a concert pianist and performed together with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Dennis Russell Davies and Franz Welser-Möst, the clarinetist Martin Fröst and the cellist Thomas Demenga. The Austrian developed his own compositions in close connection with his work as a pianist and chamber musician – with success: the [Neue Zeitschrift für Musik] quickly described him as “one of the most incisive compositional personalities on the European music scene”.
