Artist Info: Thomas Pernes

Thomas Pernes (born February 25, 1956) is an austrian avant-garde composer and performance artist who lives and works in Vienna. He studied piano with Bruno Seidlhofer and composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati.

Already in the early 1980s he had widened the narrow sphere of interest of the classical avant-garde. At a time when the term crossover was not yet known he worked with elements of folk music and jazz just as he used electronics to enlarge the possibilities of composition. [read more...]