Friebel was born in Cohuna, country Victoria in Australia. She currently lives in Austria, having moved here in 2002. She studied architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (masterclass Zaha Hadid), sociology and theology (Universities in Melbourne) and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . She completed a PhD in Composition at the University of Huddersfield in 2013 with a portfolio of works entitled ‘Generative Transcriptions, an Opera of the Self’.

Since 2014 she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz as part of the mathematics and art research project ‘The Collaborative Mind’, and teaches courses on ‘The role of intuition in forming creative flow’ at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and gives diverse lectures in festivals & conferences.

Tamara Friebel’s work includes compositions of new music, improvisation, live electronics, but also installations, video works and exhibitions. In her performances and installations she assembles everyday objects, such as a Singer sewing machine or small figurines on water lily pads, or 3d printed models which can be seen as an interface between her compositions and an architectonic approach. Her works are characterized by the very tangible, but often negotiate psychological or abstract themes. Between the influences of strict notation, improvisation and live electronics, tensions open up between exact adherence and open design, which seamlessly integrates into the music, with what would otherwise be difficult to assimilate.

Selected recent works such as the Damtschach project series Of secrets, I am silence (Carinthian Summer 2016), Suns & Daughters (2017 one day before the birth of her daughter) and There’s no clock in the forest (2019), the sound installation I Libertas, hold you little earth (Klanglicht 2016 Graz), the fashion show 2017 of the label Liniert, the composition/light performance Little Things Grow (Aspekte Festival Salzburg 2018), Silk Wood (Wien Modern 2018), Kärntner Lieder alt und neu (Carinthian Summer 2018) or A silver birth (2020, Ensemble Platypus) underline the diversity of Tamara Friebel’s work. In 2019 Dance Me To My Rebirth for harpsichord solo by Maja Mijatović was recorded on CD (Neos). The Agility of Perspective Nearness in a Lake of being (Wien Modern 2020), Hedda Duo, Kulturjahr Graz 2020/21 ListentoIntuition.com, Imago Dei (2022) Festival Composer.

2022, Jul 23, Presentation, Carinthischer Dialogue, ‘Aus der Vogelperspektive’ Event: Resonanzraüme, Carinthia

2022, June 28, RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) airing of ‘The Agility of perspective nearness in a lake of being’ with Eckhard Weber

2022, May 30, 31, Ö1 Vienna Radio, Interview with Marie-Theres Himmler : Radiokolleg – Musikalisches Ingenierswesen Iannis Xenakis und die Konstruktion von Musik und Raum

2022, April 11, Ö1 Vienna Radio, Airing of ‘Illuminations’ (Imago Dei Festival) and interview with Marie-Theres Himmler

2022, Mar 21, Article in VorMagazin, ‘Magische Klangwelten’, Imago Dei Festival, Austria

2022, Mar 17, Interview with Nadja Kayali, Imago Dei Festival, Musiksalon, Nationalbibliothek Vienna

2022, Mar 9, Interview with Michael Franz Woels & Christoph Benkeser, MusicAustria

2022, Feb 21, Article in Der Standard ‘Klangraum der Zwischenwelten’, about Imago Dei Festival, Miriam Damev

2019 “Heartbeat” Track & presentation of Florabeat appears on “Chicago to Chattanooga” Fresh Underground Podcast Episode 3 with host Ash Lake, www.florabeat.com

2016, Apr 30, Article “Steirerin des Tages: Licht, Schatten, Träume Tamara Friebel bespielte am Samstag bei „Klanglicht“ das „Lichtschwert“ Kleine Zeitung, Nina Müller

2016, Apr 30, Mentioned in TV, ORF Zeit im Bild “Klanglicht 2016”

2016 Apr 27, Invited Presentation “I, Libertas, hold you, little earth”. Rathaus, Graz, Press Conference, City of Graz

2016, Jan 9, Article in Die Presse, “Die Mathematik als Muse der Musik.” Roland Posch

2015 Jun 15, Zeit-Ton Porträt. Tamara Friebel. “Falling into Beauty”. Gestaltung: Astrid Schwarz. In: Ö1.

2015 Apr 27, Komponistenporträt: Tamara Friebel – Falling into beauty. Live-Broadcast in Internet Ö1.

2014 Oct 27, “Einfach kompliziert” Interview in Ö1 Radiokolleg

2014 Aug 20, Interview in OE1 Radiokolleg – Utopia. In: OE1; Broadcast: Friebel, Küss für eine neue Stadt

2014 Aug 4 Nachtquartier Programm “Die Schatten halten, im Licht von Jetzt” with Hans Groiss Ö1.

2014 Aug 1, “Mathematik inspiriert Künstler.” In: Salzburger Nachrichten, Angelika Wienerroither

2014 Aug 1, Interview in Zeit-Ton Extended, OE1; Broadcast: Friebel, Warmth, Aria to fallen blossoms

2009 Dec, Interview with Jonathan Harvey about “The Unself Triptych”, Huddersfield Contemporary Festival

2022, 21 March, Article in VORMagazin, ‘Magische Klangwelten’, Imago Dei Festival, Austria


2022, 9 March, MusicAustria, Interview with Michael Franz Woels & Christoph Benkeser


2022, 21 Feb, Der Standard, Austrian Newspaper, Vienna


2021, Wie Wir Leben Wollen, Article ‘Listen to Intuition’ Kulturjahr Graz, Austria


2016 Kleine Zeitung, Steirerin des Tages, Styrian of the Day


January 2016, Die Presse, Austrian Newspaper


20 April, 2015, Interview with Christian Heindl, MICA, Music Austria


1 Aug. 2014 Salzburger, Austrian Newspaper


20 Jan. 2014, Tamara Friebel in Portrait, MICA, Music Austria

2022, July, 13th SAR Conference 2022, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Invited Seminar with Klemens Fellner: online “Long Conversation” Topic: Listen2Intuition: Mathematics|Arts|Society

2022, June, Invited Lecture, “Illuminations, artistic research & composition” TU-Vienna, Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics Studio parasite: conceptual interventions! Class of Isben Onen

2021, Oct, Invited Lecture with Prof. Klemens Fellner “Balancing artistic intuition and mathematical complexity”, University of Graz, Event - Impact Café

2021 Invited Lecture, “A room of one’s own” TU-Vienna, Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics Seminar Series – Topos in Architectural Theory, Class of Isben Onen

2020 27.09-04.10 Master class Teacher - 9th International Master Class of new music, Lviv, Ukraine
2019 26 March, MUK Vienna, Interview Concert/Workshop with students at MUK.podium, Roland Friesitzer, Julia Purgina

2019 Nov 19, Invited Lecture, “Hopeful Autonomy, Transgression – Repulsion” TU-Vienna, Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics, Seminar Series on Parasite, Attunement to the Ambiguity of the Imperfect, Isben Onen

2018, Sep 3, Invited lecture with Prof. Karin Baur, “Frieze patterns in the triangle between algebra, dynamics and music” EVM general meeting, University of Graz, Minisymposium “Mathematics and Music”

2017 Jan 31, “Frieze patterns in the triangle between algebra, dynamics and music.” Invited Main Speaker, Keynote, Aplimat 2017, 16th Conference on applied Mathematics, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava with Prof. Karin Baur

2016/17, Seminar Series,"The role of inutition in forming creative flow", University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz.

2016 Dec 2, Invited Presentation “The intricacy of self-similarity.” ESC medien kunst labor, Graz with Prof. Klemens Fellner, Event – Interpolationen Workshop, Affiliation: University of Graz, Kunst Uni Graz, Organisers: Hanns Holger Rutz, David Pirró, Lisa Horvath

2015 Sep 20, Invited Presentation “The Collaborative Mind.” Central Main Stage Programme Presentation. Music Tech Fest. Ljubljana.

2015 Sep 17, Invited Presentation “The Collaborative Mind.” with Prof. Klemens Fellner, Event: Nonlocal Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, University of Neaples and Imperial College London

2015 Jul 25, Invited Presentation “Attractive Privacies of Breathing Borders” Event: Salt New Music Festival Symposium, University of Victoria, Canada

2012 May, Invited Reviewer for Alex Schweder’s class, Performance Architecture [a] akademie der bildende künste wien

2010 Dec, Seminar “Tzotzil Metamorph”, für Projekt Moden und Kommunikation: “Textile Art as a (Post)Colonial Strategy” [a] akademie der bildende künste wien, univ.-prof. dr. elke gaugele ikl (institut für das künstlerische lehramt) with Khadija Caroll

2024 “Staatstipendium für Komposition 2024”, Austrian Federal Scholarship in Composition, BMKÖS, 18 000 €

2023 “Das Land Steiermark: Kultur, Europa, Sport Jahresförderung – Komposition”, Styrian Sponsor composition, 3 000 €

2023 SKE / Austro mechana Austria, composition sponsorship for ‘Sappho Fragments’ Parts 3 & 4, 1 500 €

2023 Carinthischer Sommer Festival, sponsor of composition for ‘Illuminations Ossiach’

2022 ÖstMusikfonds, Illuminations, Imago Dei Festival, Album Recording, 21 000 €

2022 Festivalförderung Club, ‘Illuminations’ Private Sponsor: Christoph Grabenwarter

2022 SKE / Austro mechana Austria, composition sponsorship for ‘Know Thy Swan’ 1 500 €

2022 Carinthischer Dialogue, Event: Resonanzraüme, Carinthia Sponsor 400 €

2022 “Das Land Steiermark: Kultur– Komposition”, Styrian Sponsor for composition, ‘Know Thy Swan’, 1 185 €

2021 NÖ Imago Dei Festival ‘Illuminations Exhibition’, 1 000 €

2021 NÖ Landesregierung Kunst & Kultur, ‘Illuminations’, 3 000 €

2020 Kulturjahr 2020/1 Graz, Listen to Intuition, The Collaborative Mind Arts/Maths Project at University of Graz, 5 400 €

2019|23 Atelierhaus Tagger, sponsored by Kultur Graz, Styria, Austria

2016 Steirerin des Tages "Styrian of the Day" – Kleine Zeitung Graz (“Kleine” Newspaper)

2015|22 Graz University, Maths Department with Klemens Fellner & Karin Baur, 183 000 €

2015 Portrait Concert – Jeunesse ORF, 5000 €

2014 Österreich, Staatstipendium, Austria, State Scholarship in Composition, BMUKK, 14 000 €

2014 NASOM - "The New Austrian Sound of Music" BMeiA

2013|14 Rondo Solo Art Atelier, Graz, Steiermark

2012|14 Composer - POINTS, IEM, Graz, Project Director: Gerhard Nierhaus

2009|13 Huddersfield University: full fee-waiver scholarship, UK, 100 000 €

2010 Nova selected participant: for 2 new operas with Vic Opera & Chamber Made Opera, Melbourne

2008 Distasio Competition: winning short-listed entry for Venice Biennale New Australia Pavilion

2004 Annie, Jean and Doris Lamont scholarship, PLC Melbourne: masters w/Zaha Hadid di’angewandte Wien, 4000 €

2003|4 RMIT Travelling Grant Bursary for study at the Technical University, Vienna, 3000 €

2002 Alpbach Conference Bursary: Architecture and Networking,Tirol Austria

2001 The Metropolis Prize, Royal Melbourne Institute Technology for best essay in lower/upper pool

2001 Percy Oakden Prize, RMIT for best lower pool History/Theory paper

1997 Sociology of Culture Prize, LaTrobe University, Awarded by Prof. John Carroll

Friebel, T (2022) “A fragmented Hyacinth Stain” Audio Release: Hayden Chisholm (saxophone), Pina Rücker (Quartz bowls) Label: Livo

Friebel, T (2021) “This horizon joins me to you, forever” Audio Release: Piano 4 hands, Tamara Friebel (piano), Label: Livo



Friebel, T (2019) “Awakened Flutters”, Audio Release: Soprano fragments for violin and soprano, Kaoko Amano (soprano), Marianna Oczkowska (violin), Label: Livo



Friebel, T (2019) “Fluttering leaves”, Audio Release: Song for voice & instruments, Label: Livo



Friebel, T (2019) “Florabeat” 4 electronic/ambient tracks with Kaoko Amano, appears on podcast/radioplay Fresh Underground, Episode 3 with host Ash Lake



Friebel, T. (2019) “Dance me to my rebirth” Audio Release on New works for the harpsichord, “to catch a running poet”, Maja Mijatović (harpsichord) Label: NEOS



Friebel, T. (2016) “Yelobal Karaoke” Audio Release on Platypus: Selected Works Vol. 2, Label: col legno Digital



Friebel, T. (2016) “Silk, wood.” Audio Release on Exploring the World, Ensemble reconsil, Label: Orlando Records



Friebel, T. (2015) “Dewdrops” Audio Release compilation with Maria Gstättner, Label: ein_klang Records

Kühnelt, Wolfgang (2021) “Listen to Intuition” In: Stadt-Graz Kulturamt (Ed.) Wie wir leben wollen: Protokoll eines Zukunftsprojekts. Graz. Styria 2021 p 208-209 (contribution to Edited Book)



Friebel, T (2019) “Rosa Pulse Triptych”, Photographic stills & Text in Atelierhaus TAGGER Exhibition Catalogue, Graz Kultur, Limited Edition of 20, Gestaltung: Stefanie Hödlmoser, Print: Risograd



Friebel, T. (2016) contribution to article, “Mathematics and Arts: Towards a balance between artistic intuition and mathematical complexity” Internat. Math. Nachrichten Nr. 234 (2016), 1-14, Österr. Math. Gesellschaft



Friebel, T. (2016) The Intricacy of self-similarity Artistic Research for Workshop on Interpolations at the ESC medien kunst labor, Graz with Klemens Fellner, https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/315179/315180



Friebel, T. (2015) "The agility of perspective nearness", Artistic Research with Karin Baur, Research Catalogue: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/297263/297264



Friebel, T. (2015) "Attractive Privacies of Breathing Borders", Artistic Research with Karin Baur: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/245841/245842



Friebel, T. (2013) Generative Transcriptions, An opera of the self. Doctorate Thesis, Huddersfield University.



Friebel, T. (2009) Portraits und Interviews of composers/sound artists/installation artists living in Austria for MICA online, since April 2010: Peter Androsch, Pierluigi Billone, Peter Jakober, Bernhard Lang, Klaus Lang, Katharina Klement, Olga Neuwirth, Eva Reiter, Johannes Maria Staud.



Friebel, T. (2008) Introduction to ‘The Trilateral Dynamic’. In: L. Zilka (ed.), Para: RMIT Architecture Thesis Projects, 2006-7. Melbourne: RMIT School of Architecture and Design, pp. 11-14.



Friebel, T. (2008) The Trilateral Dynamic: Metastaseis, the Modulor and the Philips Pavilion. Unpublished Masters Thesis, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.



Friebel, T. (2004) Schallstück für 2 Spieler, Drei Arten von Ostinaten Rhythmen für das Fagott in New Music for young Bassoon players, Neue Musik für junge Fagottisten 1 & 2, Doblinger: Wien



Hadid, Z. Schumacher, P. (2011) Editors. Total Fluidity – Studio Zaha Hadid Projects 2000-2010. Springer: Wien/New York



Three featured projects: Dynamical Systems: Attractor Project (2005); Spiral Research Prototype, with Kaloyan Erevinov & Christo Penev (2006); Diploma Project: Sacca San Mattia: Hybrid Demarcation of a Strange Attractor Set (2008)



Kocatürk, T.Medjdoub, B. (2011) Distributed Intelligence In Design. Allpress, B. “Pedagogical frameworks for digitally networked architecture,” UK: Wiley-Blackwell



Featured: Friebel, T. (2007) Masters Thesis: The trilateral dynamic: Metastaseis, the Modulor and the Philips Pavilion. RMIT: Melbourne.



Di Stasio Ideas Competition (2008) Venice Biennale, New Australian Pavilion,Featured as Short-listed Competition Winner for Pavilion, Pp118-119