Tamara Friebel : Associate Artist
Photo: Maria Frodl
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Artist website: http://tamarafriebel.com/
Tamara Friebel is an Austrian-based Australian composer and
performer whose work explores the intersection of music,
architecture and mathematics, most often geometry.
A 2024 recipient of the Austrian Federal Scholarship for
Composition, Friebel was composer-in-residence at the
Imago Dei Festival (2022), where her choral work
'Illuminations' premiered and later featured at
Carinthian Summer Festival (2023) in the collegiate
church of Ossiach, and the recording was released, sponsored by
the Austrian ÖstMusikfonds. Friebel studied architecture,
sociology, and theology at various universities in Melbourne
before pursuing composition at the University of Music and
Performing Arts Vienna and architecture in the masterclass of
Zaha Hadid at di'angewandte. She completed her PhD in research on
'Generative Transcriptions', on the role of transcribing
scores, imagined through architectural forms, composing and
writing from emergent trance-like states, and continues to teach
and conduct research in the field.
Her ouevre currently contains 145 compositions, and has been
presented in festivals and concert contexts worldwide, often in
collaboration with leading performers and ensembles. Artistic
performances, interdisciplinary cooperations with arts and
energetic psychology, public outreach, society events, even
fashion shows. She performs live electronics and vocals, and is a
multi instrumentalist, in various settings.
Tamara Friebel — current to April 2026
Selected Commissions
| Work | Commission Details | |
|---|---|---|
|
Illuminations : Krems (2021) | Festival Imago Dei, Carinthian Summer, Austria Private sponsor: Christoph GrabenwarterProvince of Lower Austria, Osterreichischer Musikfonds |