Gabriele Proy is one of Austria’s best-known contemporary composers. From 2001 until 2013 she was the President of the European Forum Klanglandschaft. In 2013 she received the Music Award of the City of Vienna. 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 and the Belarus State Chamber Orchestra in Europe, Belarus, Turkey, Iran, Japan, Australia, Canada, South America and the USA.