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Thomas Larcher

1963– · Austrian

Thomas Larcher, born in Innsbruck in 1963, is an Austrian composer and pianist. He studied piano and composition in Vienna and first made his name as a pianist, particularly in contemporary music, before composition took over. He also founded the Klangspuren festival in Schwaz, in his native Tyrol. His early works centre on the piano and on chamber music, including a series of string quartets; from the early 2000s he turned to the orchestra, first in concertos for viola, piano, violin and cello and then in large scores such as Red and Green, the Symphony No. 2 ‘Kenotaph’, which the Vienna Philharmonic first performed under Semyon Bychkov in 2016, and the Symphony No. 3 ‘A Line Above the Sky’. His opera The Hunting Gun, after Yasushi Inoue, was first staged at the Bregenz Festival in 2018. Larcher’s music is openly tonal and connected to tradition while using a wide range of unusual instrumental sounds, and he has spoken of wanting above all to reach listeners. His works are published by Schott.

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Berliner Philharmoniker

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Sources 3

  1. On hunting and gathering: Thomas Larcher in portrait, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Klaus Mäkelä and Yunchan Lim: Larcher, Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Sibelius’s Seventh. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  2. Thomas Larcher, Schott Music Cited in Klaus Mäkelä and Yunchan Lim: Larcher, Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Sibelius’s Seventh. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  3. Thomas Larcher, Wikipedia Cited in Klaus Mäkelä and Yunchan Lim: Larcher, Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Sibelius’s Seventh. Accessed 8 October 2026.