Thomas K. Berghammer

musician, composer, educator
trumpet, flugelhorn, alto horn

*1965, lives and works in Vienna since 1991. Studies at the music universities in Linz and Graz. Mainly focused on free improvised music, contemporary jazz and world music. Since 2015 co-organizer of the “monday improvisers session”, the international music series at Celeste, Vienna, founded by Marco Eneidi in 2005.

International concerts and projects with Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Mars Williams, Marco Eneidi, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Joëlle Léandre, Georg Gräwe, Oskar Aichinger, Wolfgang Mitterer, Wolfgang Reisinger, Hannes Lö schel, Hilary Jeffery, Paul Lovens, Rudi Mahal, Jan Roder, Frank Gratowski, Tobias Delius, Sebi Tramontana, Michael Vatcher, Eckhard Koltermann, Tony Buck, John Lindberg, Martin Siewert, Burkhard
Stangl, Theo Jörgensmann, Otto Lechner, Katharina Klement, Franz Hautzinger, Phillip Quehenberger, Mamadou Diabate, Phil Minton, Wolter Wierbos, Christof Kurzmann, Christian Fennesz, and many others.

Recent ensembles and projects as (co-)leader: B Z S S ThB., D’Accord, K.G.B., Unity M, Frames of C.

Ensembles: Orchester 33 1/3, Grubenklangorchester, Klangkombinat Kalksburg, Die Stadtkapelle, and many others.

Theater performances as a performing musician at the Burgtheater “Kirschgarten”, at the Akademietheater for and with Gert Jonke, with Muunkompanie “Casanova”.

Literary-music projects with Elfriede Gerstl, Birgit Minichmayer, Johanna Wokalek, and others.