Association for promotion and advancement of contemporary art.
“… the audience was similarly at ease, and it contained fans from as far away as California, Canada and England, all making the trip to this small Austrian village …” (Andrew Choate, Signal to Noise-Magazin, Houston/Texas, attending Paul Lovens’ Vermögen-Phonomanie.)
Jazzatelier Ulrichsberg was founded in 1973. Starting with traditional Jazz- and Bluesconcerts, over the years this activities increased and evolved till today to all kinds of improvised music and contemporary music.
In 1986 Jazzatelier bought a house where now about ten concerts are takeing place throughout the year, as well as an annual international musicfestival, the Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon. Although our main activities are in music, we also offer artforms like film and visual arts.
Highlight-Activities from 1973 till today include performances of Art Farmer, Friedrich Gulda, Peter Broetzmann, Henry Threadgill, David Murray, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Walter Malli, Cecil Taylor, Radu Malfatti, John Zorn, AMM, Sun Ra, Herbert Henck, Evan Parker, Gavin Bryars, Franz Koglmann, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis, Paul Lovens, Barre Phillips, Misha Mengelberg, Mark Dresser, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Recherche, Christian Fennesz, Werner Dafeldecker, Bruce Gilbert, Ken Vandermark, Joelle Leandre and Alvin Lucier.