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6th October 2023: 10th Anniversary Extended Release of the album WHATEVER SHALL BE (Isabel Ettenauer plays music for toy piano and electronics by Karlheinz Essl)  by col legno
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Here you can listen to the premiere of Karlheinz Essl's new work for toy piano and live-electronics, "Trois Cent Drones" played by Isabel Ettenauer (3-octave Michelsonne toy piano) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics), recorded at Kulturbrücke Fratres, 24 July, 2021. 

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New video online: Watch Isabel's performance of Karlheinz Essl's "under wood", together with ensemble reconsil vienna under Antanina Kalechyts in October 2020. 

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You can see a short video excerpt of Isabel's new collaboration LamenToys with Andrea Nagl, Markus Wintersberger and Karlheinz Essl here. More informations about the project here. Rando Hannemann wrote a great review about it.

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Besucher-Eindrücke vom SCHLACHThofFESTival in Sigmaringen, 23th July 2017.

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Isabel was featured in a toy piano article (TOY STORY) by Andy Hamilton in the International Piano Magazine Sept/Oct 2015 issue. 

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Read an article in the Neue Württembergische Zeitung on Isabel's concerts in Göppingen. 

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Nice review of Isabel's evening at the Klangspuren Café with Wolfgang Praxmarer in Innsbruck! 

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A short TV spot as a preview of the Klangspuren Schwaz 2015 was broadcast in "Tirol heute" on the 9th of June. You can see it online for a week. 

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Happy to inform you that you can listen to Isabel's album whatever shall be from now on till the end of July on DEGEM WebRadio @ ZKM in a program by Julia Mihaly twice every day! It's the program "E"

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Isabel's album "whatever shall be" with music by Karlheinz Essl made it on the TOP TEN list in contemporary composition of THE WIRE #371!! 

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Brandneu erschienen: Ein mica-Portrait von Christian Heindl über Isabel Ettenauer!

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New video online! You can now enjoy Isabel's Hamburg performance of Karlheinz Essl's toy piano quartet Miles to go (together with Jennifer Hymer, Stefan Weinzierl and Bernd Fograscher; Daniel Moreira conducting)! 

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Just back from the Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend in Hamburg you can now watch Isabel's talk with composer Karlheinz Essl about their work with the toy piano, recorded at Meßmer Momentum, 26 Sept, 2014. 

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Watch Isabel's newest video recording of Karlheinz Essl's whatever shall be, produced at the composer's studio on September, 16th! 

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More new videos!! You can now watch another two excerpts of Isabel's world premiere performance of Karlheinz Essl's Gold.Berg.Werk in the new piano version, with the composer himself performing the electronic part. Recorded live at the Barockfestival St. Pölten, June 19th: excerpt of part II, excerpt of part III

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New video online!! Watch an excerpt of Isabel's world premiere performance of the new piano version of Karlheinz Essl's Gold.Berg.Werk, with the composer himself performing the electronic part. Recorded live at the Barockfestival St. Pölten, June 19th.

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You now can read the freiStil
interview that Markus Stegmayr did with Isabel online

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Read a new review (in German) of Isabel's album "whatever shall be" in the
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik

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You can now watch a new video of Karlheinz Essl's Pachinko, performed by Isabel at WUK, Vienna, Feb, 13th. What a fun piece!! 

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Happy to announce that Isabel's new album whatever shall be - music for toy instruments and electronics by Karlheinz Essl was nominated for the "Best of 01.2014 Longlist" of Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik

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New video online! Watch Isabel play Pachinko, Karlheinz Essl's newest piece for toy piano & computer on Youtube

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CD RELEASE!!!! You can now order Isabel's exciting 2nd album whatever shall be - music for toy instruments and electronics by Karlheinz Essl!! Order directly from the publisher or from Amazon.de

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There is now a little whatever shall be radio show online up til 31 January! An interview with Karlheinz Essl and Isabel Ettenauer and excerpts of their new album was broadcast on Austrian radio Ö1 during the Lange Nacht der Neuen österreichischen Musik. Their feature starts at 3'47. Don't miss it!! 

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In December Isabel visited "Me" from Poppetpeople. Together they played Karlheinz Essl's palindromic canon Listen Thing. The charming video of it you can see here

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You can now see/listen to our whatever shall be CD release concert from 20 October 2013 in full length on YouTube. Enjoy! 

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whatever shall be on the Austrian Radio Österreich 1!!! For seven days now (up till 23 Oct) you can listen to parts of the album's second track, Sequitur XIV for kalimba and electronics by Karlheinz Essl, played by Isabel. 

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An essay that Isabel wrote on Karlheinz Essl's works for toy piano is just been published in the summer 2013 Issue of the Fowl Feathered Review published by Fowlpox Press, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
You can now also read it directly on Karlheinz Essl's webiste. 

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You can now see some pictures of Isabel's recent concert of music for toy instruments and live-electronics by Karlheinz Essl (Essl Museum, 23 Jan 2013) on her Facebook page

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If you didn't have a chance to hear the premiere of Karlheinz Essl's under wood for two amplified toy pianos and ensemble live on 7 November 2012, you can now watch the video of the performance here!  

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Watch an amazing animation film created by Austrian school kids using Isabel's recording of Karlheinz Essl's first toy piano piece Kalimba on Youtube

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Christoph Wagner writes about the toy piano (in German language): A wonderful article on Mysteriöse Klangschachteln

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A new interview (in German language) with Axel Petri-Preis from the terz magazine is just online now. 

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