Aki Laurenz Traar
Composer and Music Producer
Portrait by Ronja Kappl
Aki Laurenz Traar was born in Vienna, and is currently living there after growing up in England, Canada and Italy. He has composed music and worked on stage productions performed at Burgtheater Vienna, Salzburger Festspiele, Young Theatre Shanghai, Volkstheater Vienna, Vestibül Vienna, Schauspielhaus Graz, Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Bregenzer Festspiele, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, and more. The play “Ich, Ikarus” for which Aki Laurenz Traar composed the music, was awarded the Stella*22 award in the category ‘Exceptional Drama for Children’.
His Music Productions have been released on the labels Ashida Park and Heiße Luft Records. His work for Performances and Installations includes multichannel compositions for Kunsthalle Stuttgart, Klimabiennale Vienna and Impulstanzfestival Vienna. In 2022 the Austrian Province Kärnten/Carinthia/Koroška awarded him a joint 6-Month Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. This was followed by Carinthias yearly stipend for Music in 2023. Aki Traar performs live and has played at events and festivals for contemporary electronic music across Europe such as Unsafe+Sounds Vienna, lessthanthree Basel, Museion Bozen, Megaworld Festival at Flucc Vienna, and more.
After studying Electroacoustic Composition with firsts at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Musicology at the University of Vienna, he is currently completing an MA in Composition at Anton-Bruckner University in Linz.
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