Susanna Gartmayer

*1975 in Vienna, studied painting and printmaking at the academy of fine arts, Vienna and has been working as a bass clarinetist, composer and improviser in various fields of experimental music since the early 2000s. 
She is member and founder of numerous ensembles for improvised and organized music and her particular interests lie in the polyphonic sound possibilities of low clarinets, multiideomatic improvisation, open forms of composition as well as theory and practice of collaborative work processes.
Since 2015, together with Thomas Berghammer and Didi Kern, she has been organizing the Monday Improvisers Session at Celeste in Vienna - a weekly platform for improvisers in Vienna.

Current projects (selection): The Vegetable Orchestra, möström, Black Burst Sound Generator, GBK, McPhee Quartett, So Sner, Anthropods, Aljamosuthovi Kurzmann/Gartmayer, AOUIE - Acoustic Solos for Bass Clarinet and Room, The Klingt Collective, Lupe …