Vergil Sharkya’ is a musician, composer, improviser and sonic explorer of Austrian origin, based in Montréal, Québec.
His music has been heard at SÓNAR (Barcelona, ES); SAT-Société des arts technologiques (Montréal, QC); CKUT 90.3; CiBL 101.5 (Montréal, QC); FIMAV-Festival International de Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, QC); and he has collaborated with Ensemble SuperMusique; Ensemble Innovarumori; TIT-Total Improvisation Troop; Opéra de Montréal/Orchestre Métropolitain (all Montréal, QC); Vienna Improvisers Orchestra; Kombinat M (Vienna, AT); as well as with Sarah Albu, Luki Star, Geneviève Gauthier, Elizabeth Lima, Ida Toninato, Lukas Ligeti, Philip Jeck, Colin Fallows, Serge Lamothe, and many other musicians, poets, writers, dancers, directors and artists.
Recordings of his music have been published on Cuneiform Records (USA), Audio Research Editions (UK), Mikroclimat (QC), Ambiances Magnétiques (QC), Atrito-Afeito (QC), UKsupersonic (UK), and VergilReality (AT/UK/QC).