Komm, Jesu, komm

After training as a sound engineer and recording director at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, he studied double bass, violone, and ensemble conducting at the Vienna Conservatory, deepening his knowledge of historical performance practice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. This was followed by master classes in early music and studies in musicology.

As a sought-after basso continuo specialist, Florian Wieninger performs with various ensembles in Austria and abroad. He is the founder and director of the original-sound ensemble Dolce Risonanza, with which he focuses intensively on the repertoire of the 16th to 18th centuries. Several recordings under his artistic direction, featuring music from Orlando di Lasso to Joseph Haydn, document this versatility and have gained international acclaim.

For this concert, Florian Wieninger is playing a historically accurate replica of a violone by Anton Stephan Posch, Vienna 1729, from the collection of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He received permission from the late conductor to use this copy.

In his primary profession, Florian Wieninger is the archivist for the Vienna Philharmonic, where he is responsible, for instance, for the musical organization of the New Year’s Concert.

Valeria Lanner is an organist and pianist with Italian-Austrian roots. Comfortable across genres, she performs organ solo concerts in Austria and Germany and tours as a pianist with the Viennese “Schmusechor“. Her particular interests are contemporary music, improvisation, and new concert formats. She has performed at WIEN MODERN and participated in the “Improvisation Concert on 5 Organs” at Salzburg Cathedral. She has performed with the Youth Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and has been part of the Ostheimer Organ Festival since 2022. In 2024, she won 1st prize at the 12th Joseph Gabler Organ Competition and was a finalist at the 8th International Daniel Herz Organ Competition.

From 2017 to 2020, she studied piano (under Stan Ford) and organ (under Hannfried Lucke) at the Pre-College Salzburg, and studied jazz piano with Daniel Schröckenfuchs at Musikum Salzburg. She is currently studying organ performance (with Jeremy Joseph), church music (with Elke Eckerstorfer, Ingrun Fussenegger, among others), and piano instrumental pedagogy (with Elisabeth Aigner-Monarth), with a focus on jazz piano (with Philipp Nykrin), at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

About Cantus Novus Wien

Cantus Novus Wien, based at the Vienna Diocesan Conservatory for Church Music, has been directed by Thomas Holmes since 2001. In 2018, it was named “Choir of the Year” by the Vienna Choir Forum for its outstanding choral work. Cantus Novus Wien regularly showcases its broad stylistic range: at the international film music gala “Hollywood in Vienna” 2019, the consecration of the new organ at St. Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna in 2020 or in the ambitious video productions.

The choir’s repertoire includes oratorios, among others, by Handel (Israel in Egypt; Messiah) and Haydn (The Creation). And the Requiem settings by Mozart, Brahms, Verdi and Fauré. With contemporary music as one of the focal points, the choir premiered works by Wolfgang Sauseng, Ruth McGuire, Wolfgang Reisinger, Markus Pfandler, Wolfram Wagner and Annamaria Kowalsky.