Anna Koch

Anna Koch is an Austrian clarinet and bass clarinet player. As a professional musician, she specialises in contemporary and improvised music. Studies in clarinet performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduation with honours in 2017. Startstipendium Musik grant 2020 by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture. Premiere of her solo programme BASSticcio in January 2022. Selected Artist for NASOM – The New Austrian Sound of Music 2023/24. Touring the world for her project Connecting the Dots where she collaborates with musicians, composers, and performers from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Member of Platypus Ensemble and ensemble reconsil, frequent guest artist with Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Kontrapunkte, Bang on a Can-All Stars, etc.. Collaborations with musicians and composers around the world such as Petra Stump-Linshalm, Michael Jarrell, Ig Hennemann, Julia Wolfe, Ken Thomson, Tamara Friebel, Elizabeth Jigalin, Flora Geißelbrecht, Marcio Steuernagel, Felipe Almeida-Ribeiro, Ariana Tikao, Reuben Jelleyman, and Bruno Liberda.

Performances as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals like Wien modern, Bang on a Can (USA), Auckland Arts Festival (New Zealand), Impuls Graz, SiMN Festival Curitiba (Brasil), Klangspuren Schwaz, Cut Paste Play Festival (Australia), Styriarte, Imago Dei, and Expo Shanghai (2010).