Composer · Pianist · Film Music Composer

Music that
moves between
worlds.

Orchestral, chamber, vocal and screen music shaped by colour, rhythm and a strong dramatic instinct.

About

Judit Varga

Vienna-based composer with an international concert and film music practice, whose work spans orchestral, chamber, solo and vocal compositions, with performances in international concert halls and festivals.

Her music moves naturally between classical tradition, experimental currents and the dramatic worlds of film and stage. Recurring loops, kinetic energy and shifting perspectives shape a language that feels at once familiar, playful and unmistakably contemporary.

Based inVienna
FieldsComposition · Film music · Piano · Teaching

Work catalogue

Music

Loops, kinetic energy and shifting perspectives animate music that moves freely between classical tradition and experiment—from a single instrument to the full force of the orchestra.

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Selected works

FILM+ Stage

Film scores, television, documentary, experimental moving image and works for the stage.

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Selected upcoming performances.

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LOCATION

Vienna-based, with concerts worldwide. See where Judit is next in the UPCOMING section!

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Shattered Sun

Year of composition2024
Durationapprox. 14'
Instrumentation
2 flutes (both doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (II doubling cor anglais), 3 B-flat clarinets (III doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (II doubling contrabassoon); 4 horns in F, 4 trumpets in C, 4 trombones, tuba; timpani; percussion (3 players: triangle, cymbals, tam-tam, bass drum, marching tenor drums, crotales); harp; strings

About the work

A prelude to Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 “Titan”, conceived to lead into Mahler without interruption. It may also be performed as an independent work.

Commission

Commissioned by Musikverein Graz for its 210th anniversary

Premiere / performances / awards

Premiere25 June 2024 · Stefaniensaal, Graz · Youth Orchestra Alpe Adria · Clara Bauer Wagsteiner, conductor · world premiere
Further performancesFurther performances in June 2024 in Portorož (Slovenia) and Sacile (Italy) with Youth Orchestra Alpe Adria

Score / materials

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