Dalma Sarnyai

Dalma Sarnyai is a Vienna-based flutist rooted in classical music.She performs as a soloist and in ensemble settings, with a particular focus on contemporary repertoire and experimental formats. Alongside concert performance, she is involved in interdisciplinary and site-specific projects that expand the traditional role of the perfomer.Dalma collaborates with composers, performers and artists from different disciplines, and has been involved in projects presented at venues including the Cité de la Musique in Paris, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and Vienna Design Week.She studied at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she completed the diploma programme concert flute with distinction in 2023.She has received important artistic impulses in classical flute performance from Wally Hase, Andrea Lieberknecht, Walter Auer and Gergely Ittzés, among others.Her work in contemporary and interdisciplinary contexts has been shaped by artists such as Claire Chase, Georg Nussbaumer, Michikazu Matsune, as well as through programmes including the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Impulstanz and Wiener Festwochen.In 2023 she was awarded the Density2036 scholarship, founded by Claire Chase, supporting her engagement with contemporary and interdisciplinary practice.

My work moves between interpretation and collaboration, shaped by different cultural and institutional contexts. Rather than presenting music as a closed form, I approach it as a situation that unfolds in relation to space, context and presence.Growing up between different cultural and institutional environments has shaped the way I perceive belonging - not as something stable, but as something that can be negotiated. This perspective informs my artistic practice, where I seek to create spaces in which different experiences and forms of listening can coexist.I am drawn to music that allows for this openness: sound as something physical, temporal and relational. In this sense, performance becomes less about delivering a work and more about entering a shared field of attention.

Upcoming dates t.b.a.

Beyond Sleep - Symposium Performance
21 March 2026 - TQW Vienna

ICE x MDW: Polyasphora
23 November 2025 - Wien Modern

ICE x MDW: Composing While Black, Vienna Edition
22 November 2025 - Wien Modern

Rupert Huber: Begegnungsmusik
5 October 2025 - Pinakothek der Moderne Munich

Japanese Soundscapes
4 October 2025 - Wiener Neustadt

Vienna Design Week x Design Without Borders - Cocktail Performance (flute+dance)
29 September 2025 - Polnisches Institut Wien

Vienna Design Week x Design Without Borders - Opening
26 September 2025 - Polnisches Institut Wien

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Sternklang
19 & 20 December 2024 - Vienna & Budapest

Kaze No Ma for flute and player piano
22 June 2024 - mdw

Blaukopf Award Performance
19 June 2024 - mdw

Tender Steps Residency
March - April 2024 - Raw Matters Vienna

Institute of Sleepless Nights: Winter Sleep. Nap Concert flute+electronics
16 March 2024 - Studio Matsune

André Jolivet: Suite en Concert for flute and percussions
30 March 2023 - MUK Vienna

Marcus Balter, Claire Chase: Pan
12 March 2023 - Cité de la Musique Paris

Error Theater: No Distance Left to Sound
20 & 21 September 2022 - Musiktheatertage Wien

Wei-Ya Lin, Johannes Kretz: Creative (Mis)Understandings
20 & 23 May 2022 - Weltmuseum Wien, House of Music Budapest

Concert with Ensemble XXI. Jh.
28 April 2022 - MQ Architekturzentrum Wien

aiaia: nass || zell || flux
9 April 2022 - private bathrooms in Vienna

Portrait Concert Olga Neuwirth
5 April 2022 - ORF Großer Sendesaal

Concert at Festival Imago Dei
26 March 2022 - Minoritenkirche Krems

aiaia: duck & listen!
10 & 11 August 2021 - various public baths in Vienna

aiaia: aiaiAdventkonzert
17 June 2021 - Wittgensteinhaus Wien

Workshop & concert
15-17 October 2019 - NTNU Trondheim

Workshop: Die Evolution des Rudimental Drummings
27 August 2019 - Schloss Zeillern

Georg Nussbaumer: Atlas der gesamten Musik
17 November 2018 - Wien Modern

Marino Formenti: Biblosphäre - Die Kugel der Zeit
28 October 2018 - Wien Modern

Performing solo works by André Jolivet and Toru Takemitsu, as part of the symposium Beyond Sleep, organized by Institute of Sleepless Nights.21 March 2026
14 - 18h
TQW Vienna

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Wien ModernPerforming works by Hannah Kendall and George Lewiswith Webern Ensemble Neue Musik and the International Contemporary Ensemble (collaboration)23 November 2025
20h
Musikverein, Gläserner Saal

Wien ModernPerforming works by Anthony Braxton and Njabulo Phungulawith Webern Ensemble Neue Musik and the International Contemporary Ensemble (collaboration)22 November 2025
17h
Mdw Campus Joseph-Haydn-Saal

Intervention - Rotunda ConcertPerforming with Rupert Huber (electronics) and Lena Fankhauser (viola) as part of the music installation Begegnungsmusik.5 October 2025
15h
Pinakothek der Moderne Munich

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Performing Orasho by Shigehiro Yamamoto for flute, cello and pianowith Benjamin Zumpfe (piano) and Stefan Teufert (cello)4 October 2025
17h
Festsaal, Borg Wiener Neustadt

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Cocktail performance flute & dance to the exhibition Design Without Borders – Reflectionswith Rita Góbi (dance)29 September 2025
16h
Polnisches Institut Wien

Design without Borders - ReflectionsSolo performance for the opening of the exhibition26 September 2025
Polnisches Institut Wien

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Performing Sternklang by Karlheinz Stockhausen together with MIKAMO (Mitteleuropäisches Kammerorchester)19 December 2024
19h
Reaktor Vienna20 December 2024
19h
House of Music Budapest

Performing Musica Su Due Dimensioni by Bruno Maderna at mdw (Blaukopf Award)with Dustin Zorn (electronics)19 June 2024
mdw, Bankett-Saal

Kaze No Ma - in collaboration with composer Masao Ono. An installation-based composition for flute and player piano, performed live.22 June 2024
mdw FALPerformance recording available in the Media section.

Artist residency at Raw Matters Wienwith Flóra Boros (dance)

As part of the symposium Winter Sleep at the Institute of Sleepless Nights (Studio Matsune) we presented a one-hour nap concert.
The musical concept was designed to mirror natural sleep cycles, evolving through variations in heart rate, deep sleep and REM phases.with Patrick Pazdzior (electronics)16 March 2024
Studio MatsuneFull live recording available upon request!

Performative contribution in music theatre Pan by Marcos Balter/Claire Chase12 March 2023
16h
Cité de la Musique Paris

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No Distance Left To Sound: a music theatre by Error Theater (Alexander Chernyshkov & Philipp Lossau)in collaboration with Ensemble Platypusat Musiktheatertage Wien20 & 21 September 2022
19.30h
Hörsaal D, meduni Wien

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"The Artistic Research Project Creative (Mis)Understandings is based on a collaboration between poet-singers of the indigenous Tao group from Taiwan and composers and sound creators trained in the tradition of European Art Music. The project aims to create strategies which on the one hand contribute to revitalizing Tao cultural practices in a sustainable way, and on the other hand redefine social roles of European, academically trained composers and sound creators."

Performing at the closing presentations in Vienna and Budapest20 May 2022 - Weltmuseum Wien
23 May 2022 - House of Music Budapest

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Performing pieces by Yoko Ono as well as other fluxus pieces9 April 2022
18-22h

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Performing Welten ... auseinander by Wolfgang Suppan and Walking in the Limits by Heinz Reberwith Ensemble Platypus26 March 2022
Minoritenkirche Krems

Production assistanceA bath opera by Georg Nussbaumer10 & 11 August 2021

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"The arrival of the organ or the island"Performing Operoar by Georg Nussbaumer17 June 2021
Haus Wittgenstein Wien

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Guest musician (piccolo & Schwegel) - workshop on traditional rudimental drumming led by David Christopher Panzl, including a concert performance15-17 October 2019
NTNU Trondheim

Guest musician (piccolo) in the workshop led by David Christopher PanzlFortbildungswoche, Musikschulmanagement Niederösterreich27 August 2019
10-18h
Schloss Zeillern

A walk-through symphony featuring over 300 participants in various rooms at the mdwComposition: Georg Nussbaumer17 November 2018
14h
mdw

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Project description: Students from the mdw and Marino Formenti perform music from all eras drawn from the mdw’s libraryConcept: Marino FormentiPerforming works by Klaus Lang, Takashi Yoshimatsu a.o.28 October 2018
16-00h
mdw library

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