EXTRA EUROPA – Musical Showcase
Press Information
Friday 24 April 2009
Daniel Schnyder – Around The World
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 7:30 PM
Brucknerhaus, Untere Donaulände 7, 4010 Linz
The word “globalization” designates almost anything that combines foreign and local elements without making very clear what it actually is. Clichés like “crossover” and “transcending genre boundaries” are often indicative of mediocrity and have even come to be used as put-downs by music critics. For years now, Swiss composer and woodwind virtuoso Daniel Schnyder has been waging a successful campaign against “whateverism.” This concert is being produced jointly with the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. Students will be collaborating with the participating musicians.
Schnyder’s music aims to boldly confront the reality of life in these times. Elements of non-European music flow into the mix, as do masterpieces of classical, jazz, rock and pop.
Performers: Georg Breinschmid, Martin Grubinger, Toni Renold, Daniel Schnyder, Orchestra for Applied New Music – Students at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz, Norbert Girlinger
In cooperation with the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz and the Brucknerhaus
Vienna Art Orchestra (VAO)
Sonntag,03. Mai 2009, 20.30 Uhr
Brucknerhaus, Untere Donaulände 7, 4010 Linz
One can readily see (and hear) that Vienna boasts an impressive array of young, world-class classical musicians who are equally at home in jazz-derived, improvisational styles. And this is precisely why the new VAO lineup features an interesting mix of classicists and jazzers, all of whom also take turns in the spotlight as soloists. In the new program, Swiss maestro Matthias Rüegg brings his expertise and insights in both jazz and classical to bear and gets them to dovetail into a new holistic blend. Virtuosity, complex harmonics, rhythm, energy and tension are also accompanied by visuals, as has been VAO’s practice in its prior configurations. Bottom line: everything remains the same, but it’s all nevertheless new. The big band lineup has been replaced by a chamber orchestra made up of classical and jazz musicians, and done so in an unprecedentedly consistent form.
Performers: Mathias Rüegg; jazz soloists: J. Bartos, C. Curschellas, N. Gori, H. Sokal; rhythm section: J. Gröbner, I. Oberkanins, F. Philipp, E. Weissensteiner; string quartet: A. Jesek, J. Lewis, I. Pristasova, M. Williams; woodwind section: T. Frey, H. Kerschbaumer, M. Kronsteiner, V. Marian; brass section: T. Fischer, A. Soomary, D. Stöger
In cooperation with the Brucknerhaus
