Janko Hanushevsky

Composer of the music for WE MEET IN PARADISE, SKY IN SIGHT, HOME, OUT OF BOUNDS, ARE YOU READY?, close.r as well as As you call into the forest...

Born 1978 in Linz/Austria. 1997-2002 studied jazz bass at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna, master classes with Peter Herbert and Skúli Sverrisson. Numerous concerts throughout Europe, mainly in the field of contemporary jazz music, new and freely improvised music, including with Gianluigi Trovesi, Peter Herbert, Lucas Niggli, Holger Falk, Marco Lobo, Max Andrzejewski.

Sound research trips to India, South East Asia, North Africa, Brazil and Greenland.

In the duo Merzouga, he produces electro-acoustic music, radio art, features and radio plays as well as film, radio play and theatre music with computer musician Eva Pöpplein. World premieres in the Elbphilharmonie, in the chamber music hall of Deutschlandfunk and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Sound installations at the Museum Schnütgen in Cologne and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, among others.

Radio work for Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Deutschlandfunk, WDR, HR, RBB, ZDF/arte, the Finnish radio station YLE, Hebbel am Ufer Theatre Berlin, schauspielfrankfurt, Münchner Volkstheater, Schauspielhaus Graz, among others. The duo has released several CDs with GRUENREKORDER, which have been reviewed internationally. Pieces have appeared on international compilations, including the renowned "WIRE Tapper".

His radio works and manuscripts have received numerous national and international awards and nominations (including Grand Prix Nova/Gold, Prix Europa, Prix Marulić, n-ost Reportagepreis, Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste/Hörspiel des Monats, Opus Klassik and Classic Music Awards) and have been broadcast by all ARD stations, Austrian, Swiss, Finnish, Irish and Croatian radio stations. He lives in Cologne.