Klaus Lang

Klaus Lang is an Austrian composer and organist, born in Graz in 1971. He studied composition, music theory and organ in Graz with Hermann Markus Pressl, Beat Furrer and Younghi Pagh-Paan, and has taught composition at the university of music there since 2006. He writes for organ, ensemble, orchestra and voice and for the stage, and performs early, new and improvised music on the organ. Lang's opera Die Architektur des Regens, based on Zeami's Noh play Shiga, premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2008.