Yasmo & die Klangkantine (light) are known as a band for their sophisticated songwriting, cutting-edge lyrics, and high-energy, connective music. A concert by them is a shared experience. As part of the Festival of Regions, they won’t just be playing for us – they’ll be playing with us.
This is a unique opportunity to learn from them and step onto the stage together.
As part of the project, Ralph Mothwurf and Tobias Vedovelli will offer composition and songwriting workshops, while Yasmo leads sessions in rap and creative writing.
Participants are welcome to bring their own sketches and ideas – or simply come as they are. Together, we’ll develop new songs and lyrics through a process of creative exchange.
The resulting pieces can become part of the live concert with Yasmo & die Klangkantine (light). The workshops foster collaboration, celebrate musical diversity, and create space for personal expression.
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Yasmo
a.k.a. Yasmin Hafedh, born in Vienna in 1990, is a musician, author, songwriter and cultural worker.
She has been performing on stages since 2007 and in 2009 she won the title of German-speaking champion in the U20 Poetry Slam (as the first Austrian woman) and in 2013 she was the first woman to win the Austrian Poetry Slam Championship title. She tours the world with her texts.
With her hip-hop jazz big band “Yasmo & die Klangkantine”, she released her fifth studio album “Laut & Lost” in 2023, for which she was again nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award.
She also co-curated the Popfest Wien 2019 and the Kultursommer 2012 & 22.
Yasmo’s lyrics have appeared in numerous literary anthologies, she is considered one of the country’s best lyricists and also gives creative writing classes, most recently at the School of Poetry. In 2021, she was nominated for Songwriter of the Year at the Austrian Amadeus Music Awards for a second time. In 2023, she also published a book with Mieze Medusa, “Die Krise schreibt man mit nicht mit langem ‘I’”, and rehearsals for her first play at the Rabenhof are currently underway.
Ralph Mothwurf
is one of the most popular composers of the young Austrian generation. In
last few years, he has been a major driving force in the Austrian music scene and has been awarded
numerous prizes and scholarships: Talentförderungsprämie Land OÖ, Austrian State Scholarship, Composition Scholarship BMKOES, Scholarship City of Vienna, etc. In 2022/2023 Ralph Mothwurf taught composition and arrangement at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.
His compositional work includes commissioned compositions for festivals such as the Communale OÖ, the Wellenklänge Festival and the OnQ-Festival. In addition, Mothwurf works with well-known Austrian orchestras such as the Janus Ensemble and the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck. With the founding of his own orchestra, the Ralph Mothwurf Orchestra, he achieved international fame. The debut release of the ensemble (Label Edition Ö1) was named “Record of the Year” by Deutschlandfunk, among others. In addition, as the guitarist for the formation “Yasmo und die Klangkantine”, he has been performing throughout the entire German-speaking region for 10 years now.
Tobias Vedovelli
(born August 24, 1993) completed his studies in bass and composition (2011) with Robert Riegler, Werner Feldgrill, Raphael Preuschl and Oliver Steger, as well as a master’s degree in double bass with Peter Herbert. Other teachers included Gerd Hermann Ortler, Christoph Cech, Clemens Salesny and Richard Graf.
The Vienna-based musician works as a freelance electric and double bassist, composer and arranger. He has performed with artists such as Ben Wendel, Dhafer Youssef, Django Bates, Thomas Gansch and Yasmin Hafedh and is a member of numerous ensembles such as HAEZZ, Jazzorchester Vorarlberg, Ensemble Kuhle Wampe, Yasmo & die Klangkantine and Ralph Mothwurf Orchestra.
Vedovelli is co-founder of the label “Waschsalon Records”, the bands HAEZZ, Ensemble Kuhle Wampe, Yasmo & die Klangkantine (Amadeus Award nominations: 2018, 2020, 2023) and initiator of the onQ Festival. Awards: 5×5 Go Scholarship from the State of Vorarlberg, Startstipendium from the Federal Chancellery (2021) and Amadeus Award nominations as “Songwriter of the Year” and “Song of the Year” (2023).
Reinhard Hörschläger (born 1990) is an Austrian musician. He initially received musical training in piano and guitar and switched to drums at the age of 10. From 2006 to 2014, he studied classical percussion at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität with Harald Demmer, Leonhard Schmiedinger and Anton Mittermayer. He is a multiple prizewinner in the Prima la Musica competition.
Since his youth, he has been involved in various musical projects. He is currently the drummer of the hip-hop jazz band “Yasmo und die Klangkantine” around Yasmin Hafedh, with whom he has released three studio albums and played numerous concerts in German-speaking countries. Other musical activities include the progressive rock band “Slothmachine” (drums), the Upper Austrian rock band “Knecht” (guitar) and the electro-improvisation trio “Low Oxygen Zone”, which he founded in 2020 with Sebastian Vötterl and Andreas Lindenbauer. He has also worked as a live and studio musician for guitarist Peter Mayer (BEDA, Peter Mayer Hofkapelle).
Hörschläger lives in Vienna as a freelance musician.
Simon Raab, born in Linz in 1989, is a jazz pianist, composer and teacher from Vienna. He began teaching himself to play the piano as a child and later received a thorough education, including in jazz piano at the Anton Bruckner Private University and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He also deepened his musical during an Erasmus stay in Basel.
Raab has received numerous awards, including several Prima La Musica prizes, the
Podium Jazz Competition, the Newcomer Award and the Upper Austrian Talent Promotion Prize for Music. As the bandleader of the jazz quartet Purple is the Color, he won the Central European Jazz Competition in 2018 and was awarded a scholarship from the Austrian Federal Chancellery. He performs internationally, including at festivals in Europe, Mexico and Asia, and regularly plays in renowned clubs such as Porgy & Bess in Vienna and Bimhuis in Amsterdam.
As a composer and pianist, Raab has released several albums and received composition commissions, for example for the Janus Ensemble under the direction of Christoph Cech and the OnQ Festival. Since 2021, he has also been teaching at the Vienna Music Institute. Currently, he leads the Porgy & Bess Stageband with his quartet Purple is the Color until June 2025.