The Vienna Art Orchestra, one of Europe’s leading big bands, was created in Vienna in 1977 by Mathias Rüegg. After a short but intensively activist beginning, the young sound "phenomenon" conquered the concert halls of Europe with its audacious postmodern style, which even touched the extremes of avant-garde and idiosyncratic Viennese Schmäh, as for example in the early recordings Tango from Obango, From No Time to Rag Time and The Minimalism of Erik Satie.

Worldwide one of a kind, the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe.

Every year - after a successful rehearsal - colluvio invites very talented young musicians to join the chamber music class at the manor ‚Gut Hornegg’. Under competent supervision, a demanding program of chamber music will be created and presented on a concert tour throughout Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro.

What was, what is the role of Jewish Theater in Austria? From 1900 to 1938, Vienna had a small but extremely active Jewish theater scene that brought cabaret, musical theater, operettas, short works, and full-length dramas to the stage in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. Yiddish ensembles such as the Jüdische Bühne, which existed from 1908 to 1938, and the ambitious Jüdische Künstlerspiele brought together actors from all over Eastern Europe performing mainly operettas, melodramas, and Yiddish revues in which not only song and dance, but also the problems of the day played an important role.

The style known today as Biedermeier was popular in the early 19th century throughout most of Northern Europe, particularly in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, as well as Scandinavia and the Baltic States. Officially, Biedermeier was only produced between 1810 and 1835. Revival periods include 1860, late 19th Century and again in the 1920s. Most of the furniture from that era remain anonymous and dateless, in character with the modest craftsmen who created the style. But the impact of its unfussy style and clean lines is still felt today.

The Vienna Art Orchestra - Europe’s leading international Jazz orchestra - was created in 1977 by Mathias Rüegg. After a short but intensively activist beginning, the young sound "phenomenon" conquered the concert halls of Europe with its audacious postmodern style, which even touched the extremes of avant-garde and idiosyncratic Viennese Schmäh, as for example in the early recordingsTango from Obango, From No Time to Rag Time and The Minimalism of Erik Satie.