Bernhard Lang has been played on NTS shows including Jim O'Rourke, with Loops For Hába (2022) first played on 20 February 2025.

Bernhard Lang is an Austrian composer.

Bernhard Lang was born on 24th of February 1957 in Linz, Austria. After finishing highschool and piano studies at the Bruckner Konservatorium he moved to Graz to study Jazz piano, Arranging and classical Piano. He studied philosophy, German philology. Between 1977 and 1981 he worked with various Jazzbands, the most important one was the Erich Zann Septett.

After having finished his piano studies he started to study composition with Polish composer Andrzej Dobrowolski, who introduced him to the techniques of New Music. He also studied with Hermann Markus Pressl who taught him counterpoint and introduced him to the work of Josef Matthias Hauer.

Since 1988 he has been working as a teacher for theory of harmony and counterpoint at the University of Music and dramatic Arts in Graz. At Graz he also met Gösta Neuwirth who was to become one of his main influences and who taught him for many years in a free way outside the institutions.

Georg Friedrich Haas introduced him into microtonal music and commissioned a quartertone piece for the Musikprotokoll 1988. In the meantime his pieces were performed at the Steirische Herbst Festival, at the Moscow Alternativa Festival and Moscow Modern Festival, Biennale Hannover, Tage Absoluter Musik Allentsteig I and II, Klangarten I and IV, Resistance Fluctuation Los Angeles, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Salzburger Festspiele, Wien Modern, Donaueschingen, Witten and many others.

He worked together with several Artist Groups: Klangforum Wien; Ensemble Recherche; George Crumb Trio; Intro-Spection Graz, Fond, Klangarten Wien. Some projects were done in collaboration with Winfried Ritsch (Hexagrammatikon, Mozart 1789, Versuch über das Vergessen 2, Christian Marczik (Rondell - Remise), Edmund Steirer (Porn Again), Christian Loidl (Icht I / Icht II, DW2).

Now he is also member of the Improvisationsgroups LALELOO and VLO. He occasionally does studio work for various bands (Fetish 69). In 1998 he was a guest lecturer with Peter Weibels Media class in Vienna. Bernhard Lang lives in Vienna.