Bernhard Anton Josef Hadriga is an Austrian guitarist and improviser with roots in Lower Austria’s northeastern
Weinviertel. He completed studies in Jazz and popular music (BA), as well as Jazz and improvised music (MA), with honours with distinction in Vienna and Linz with Martin Koller and Robert Pockfuß.
As a freelance artist based in Vienna, Bernhard Hadriga pursues the development of the electric guitar’s vocabulary in the context of electroacoustic and electronic aesthetics, exploring the modular properties of the instrument. Abstraction and extended playing techniques sit at the core of the toolkit. Hadriga works interdisciplinarily as a musician, live and in studio, as well as a video and television producer.
Collaborators past and present include
JazzWerkstatt Wien, Judith Schwarz & Little Rosies Kindergarten,
Vincent Pongrácz, Flora Geißelbrecht, Jul Dillier, Thomas Liesinger, Lan Sticker, Aurel Violas, Franz Hautzinger, Burkhard Stangl, Vinicius Cajado, Markus W. Schneider, ELAK (mdw), Lukas Aichinger, Helene Glüxam, Judith Ferstl, other:m:other, Antonia XM, SarahBernhardt, Nikolaj Efendi, Michael Prowaznik, Raphael Preuschl, Clemens Sainitzer, Julia D. Krammer, Jörg Zemmler, etc.
Workshops, seminars, lessons (selection):
Stian Westerhus, Christian Lillinger, Kaja Draksler, Marc Ducret,
Frank Gratkowski, Peter Herbert, Bernhard Hammer, Benny Omerzell, Andreas Lettner, Clemens Salesny, Alexander Machacek, Lotte Anker, Nick Dunston, Peter Kutin, Christoph Cech, Andi Schreiber, Branford Marsalis, etc.
Performances at (selection):
International Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Internationales Donaufest Ulm, Ars Electronica Festival, INTL Jazz Platform, Porgy & Bess Wien, Waves Festival, Lange Nacht der Bühnen, ORF Radiokulturhaus Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz, Neubad Luzern, Musikverein Wien, Haus der Musik Wien, Zámostí Festival Třebič, Cross Club Prag, Wytwórnia Łódz, etc.
References (selection)
- 2024 INTL Jazz Platform Łódź selected participant
Marc Ducret Band - 2024 Hotel Pupik Artist in Residence
with Aurel Violas - 2023 INTL Jazz Platform Łódź selected participant
Stian Westerhus Band - 2023 Best Austrian Animation Festival grand prize
Echoes of Grief (directed by: Verena Repar)
Film Score with T. Liesinger & L. Sticker - 2023 Cannes Independent Film Festival Official Selection
Actor in Skipping (directed by: V. Pongrácz & P. Rom) - 2023 Hotel Pupik Artist in Residence
with Jul Dillier & Flora Geißelbrecht - 2022 phonoECHOES award winner
for sound art and experimental electronics
Austrian Composer Association & Iklectic London - 2022 «Get Going!» stipendiary
for Ei Gen Klang with Jul Dillier & Flora Geißelbrecht
Fondation Suisa, Switzerland - 2021 XA Export Award nominee
mica, Austrian Music Export, AUME/SKE Fonds,
FM4 & Waves Festival
with Downers & Milk