Johannes Berauer – a former student of Jazz legend Bob Brookmeyer – is one of the most productive and diverse young composers of Austria. He effortlessly navigates around the limitations of styles such as classical avant-garde, jazz, pop and non-European traditions.

 

He worked with many orchestras around the world including London Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner Symphony Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchester, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and many others.

 

His own project “The Vienna Chamber Diaries” is a unique synthesis of classical chamber music and jazz. The ensemble released three albums with jazz masters like Gwilym Simcock, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Omer Klein and Klaus Gesing alongside outstanding classical players like Florian Eggner or Johannes Dickbauer. Gwilym Simcock is also part of his Jazzquintet “Hourglass” with Mike Walker, Britten Sinfonia concert master Thomas Gould, Martin Berauer and drum wizard Bernhard Schimpelsberger.

 

Gould and Schimpelsberger are dedicatees of his concerto “NoWhere NowHere”, which was premiered by the Bruckner Orchestra in the Golden Hall of Musikverein Vienna.

 

Berauer worked for oud master Anouar Brahem’s album “Souvenance” with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and his latest projects with musicians like Django Bates, Anja Lechner, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, all released on ECM.

 

As a regular arranger for the Austrian Tonkünstler and Bruckner Orchestra he worked for jazz soloist Thomas Gansch, opera stars Klaus Florian Vogt, Erica Eloff, soul singers China Moses and Myles Sanko and pop artist Ina Regen. Their album “Was ma heit ned tramam” was Nr. 1 in the Austrian pop charts.

 

Johannes Berauer received commissions from the Vienna Musikverein, Konzerthaus Wien, Linzer Klangwolke (2008 & 25), the Bruckner Festival (2011 and 24) or the Edinburgh Mela and his music was performed in many major concert halls such as Queen Elizabeth Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Bozar, Tonhalle Zürich, Musikverein Wien, Konzerthaus Wien and many more.

 

Amongst his prizes are the international Gustav Mahler Prize, Scrivere in Jazz, a Fulbright Scholarship, Landeskulturpreis OÖ and the Austrian State Scholarship for composition.

 

Berauer studied at the New England Conservatory and Berklee College in Boston, and the A. Bruckner University of Linz. His teachers were inter alia Bob Brookmeyer, Lee Hyla, Christoph Cech and Gunter Waldek.

 

Johannes Berauer currently teaches at Music University Graz and has been previously on the faculty of the conservatory of Klagenfurt and the Music University Vienna.