Vienna-born Gabriele Proy is one of Austria’s best-known contemporary composers. In 2013 she received the Music Award of the City of Vienna, the city’s highest honour for music. From 2001 until 2013 she was the President of the European Forum Klanglandschaft. Her award-winning compositions for choir, orchestra and chamber music have been performed by distinguished orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Choir, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Concert-Verein Orchestra, the Minsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the European Union Youth Orchestra and members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Europe, Belarus, China, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, Ukraine, Canada, South America, USA and Australia.