Besides playing Traditional Chinese Music, Chai Found Music Workshop has performed numerous concerts with Contemporary Music. Since the early 1990s the group has been regularly touring Europe, Asia and America and has played concerts and conducted instrumental workshops in Austria, Germany, England, Spain, France, Holland, Poland, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Costa Rica, and in the United States.

Along with keeping up the various traditions of Chinese Chamber Music, Chai Found Music Workshop has established close ties with international composers and music ensembles, both from the East and the West. Plenty of compositions were written for and premiered by the musicians of Chai Found Music Workshop.

The workshops about Chinese instruments are for many young composers the first exposure to the world of Chinese Music.

In 1999, the composer Christian Utz and the Vienna based organization AsianCultureLink started collaborations between European composers and Chai Found Music Workshop. Western composers were motivated to write for Chinese instruments. Consequently, a series of concerts at renowned festivals and concert venues could be realized, including Crossings, a much acclaimed collaboration with Klangforum Vienna.


Chai Found Music Workshop and Klangforum Vienna rehearsing at Philharmonic Hall Berlin, 2004

Ensemble 2e2m, France
Klangforum Wien, Austria
Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ensemble of the 20th Century, Austria


Chai Found Music Workshop and Klangforum Vienna rehearsing at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 2004

Composers for Chai Found Music Workshop