Kairos (record label)

Kairos
Parent company	Paladino Media
Founded	1999
Founder	Barbara Fränzen Peter Oswald
Genre	Contemporary classical
Country of origin	Austria
Location	Vienna
Official website	kairos-music.com

Kairos is an Austrian record label that specializes in contemporary classical music. Its recordings have received multiple awards, including the Diapason d'Or. It was founded by Barbara Fränzen and Peter Oswald in 1999, and in 2015, became part of Paladino Media, a company owned by Austrian cellist Martin Rummel. The label's main cover artists are Jakob Gasteiger, Erwin Bohatsch, and Enrique Fuentes.

Artists

Composers

• Beat Furrer
• Bernhard Lang
• Constance Hauman
• Elena Mendoza
• Friedrich Cerha
• Gérard Grisey
• Giacinto Scelsi
• Helmut Lachenmann
• Isabel Mundry
• Joanna Wozny
• Kaija Saariaho
• Lucia Ronchetti
• Mark Andre
• Osvaldo Coluccino
• Luigi Nono
• Misato Mochizuki
• Olga Neuwirth
• Pierluigi Billone
• Rebecca Saunders
• Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
• Salvatore Sciarrino
• Wolfgang Rihm
• Matthias Pintscher
• Stefan Prins
• Osmo Tapio Räihälä

Conductors

• Emilio Pomarico
• Hans Zender
• Ingo Metzmacher
• Jukka-Pekka Saraste
• Johannes Kalitzke
• Pierre Boulez
• Simon Rattle
• Stefan Asbury
• Sylvain Cambreling

Orchestras, ensembles, soloists

• Arditti Quartet
• Asko Ensemble
• Berliner Philharmoniker
• Ensemble intercontemporain
• Marco Fusi (violinist)
• Ensemble Modern
• ensemble recherche
• Ernesto Molinari
• International Contemporary Ensemble
• Klangforum Wien
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Stéphane Ginsburgh
• Nicolas Hodges
• Yaron Deutsch
• Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
• Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
• Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
• Kölner Rundfunkorchester
• Vienna Philharmonic
• Uusinta Ensemble

Awards

• Diapason d’Or
• Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik
• International Piano Award
• Choc du Monde
• Grand Prix du Disque

External links

• Official website