"Composition is the calm that is still inherent in the storm."

born in Vienna, May 27, 1994

Coming from a family of musicians, Oskar Gigele already showed a remarkable talent for complex melodies at a young age. As a soloist with the Vienna Boys' Choir, he has already sung on the world's great stages, for example as the second boy in The Magic Flute at the 2006 Salzburg Festival. After graduating from Vienna's Neustiftgasse Music High School, he began his academic career at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) in Iris ter Schiphorst's composition class in 2014. Since October 2022 he has been studying media composition with a focus on film music with Judit Varga.

He expanded his expertise by participating in the Film Scoring Masterclass with Alan Menken as part of Hollywood in Vienna in September 2022, as well as the Composition Masterclass with Kalevi Aho in March 2023. In May 2022, he taught his own masterclass in composition with a focus on the piano and its compositional possibilities as part of Piano Day Skopjein North Macedonia. Since August 2025, Oskar has also been a teacher at the Vienna Composition Lab, which is held annually in the summer at the Vienna Musikverein.

Oskar has won numerous awards, including the Ensemble Ultreia Call for Scores (2019) and his placement as a semifinalist in the Vienna Composer Contest of Synchron Stage Vienna (2023). Particularly noteworthy is his victory in the Miniature Operetta Competition of the Vienna Volksoper (2023), which earned him the commission to compose a miniature operetta that premiered at the Volksoper in June 2024.

In addition to his compositional achievements, Oskar is known for his collaborations with renowned artists, including the composition of intro music for Joesi Prokopetz's cabaret program Vorletzte Worte (2014).

As a board member and founding member of the Independent Music Association, Oskar Gigele was interviewed by Daniela Fietzek for OE1 (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), where two of his pieces were broadcast. His ongoing collaboration with the Alma Mahler Philharmonic, for which he has written several orchestral works, is further testimony to his artistic commitment and professionalism. Also worth mentioning is his contribution as sound logo composer for the KlangBildKlang Festival 2024.

In the summer of 2023, Oskar Gigele also expanded his repertoire by producing several tracks for the television format Genussland Österreich (2023) on ORF 3, which were used in various episodes of the series.

Since October 2025, Oskar has been a scholarship holder at the Akademie Musiktheater heute (Academy of Contemporary Music Theater) and, at the end of his two-year scholarship, will create a new music theater work that will premiere in Frankfurt, Germany, in October 2027.