jazz.kunst.live

In cooperation between Jazz-Zeit, Lentos and JIM.

8:00 pm   Think Bigger Orchestra 

When Christoph Cech took over as head of the Department of Jazz and Popular Music at the Bruckner Conservatory in the fall of 1999, he was confronted with the situation of having to provide an act from the Jazz Department for a concert at the Chamber of Labor hall two weeks later. This was the genesis of the Think Bigger Orchestra, the newly formed student big band of Linz. The success that suddenly sprang up then was the cornerstone for series of concerts that attracted the attention of the jazz community of Linz and signaled new beginnings for the Jazz Department. Now, eight years later, this department features a diversity of styles that is unique throughout Europe. From mainstream to free jazz, from pop to independent, from Fusion and Ethno to New Music and Noise, quality is based on the intensity of the search, the experiment. This spirit is also expressed in the vivacity of the TBO's performance, which aptly represents the orchestral concepts of Christoph Cech and his students.
 
Christoph Cech: E. Johann Häcksler, Habanera, Pico Pico, Ben Brachtel: Shall I compare thee (after Shakespeare),  C.Cech: Mondtanz, Xie Xie, Xie Xie, Xie Xie, Hank, Traum in 7, Ala.Ska

Lana Cencic, Regina Mallinger, Hari Baumgartner, Markus Wolf - vocals / Catalina Morales - flute / Philipp Harnisch, Daniel Rikker, Susi Mayr, Sebastian Hartwig, Stefan Moll - reeds / Stefan Konrad, Michael Karner, Stefan Weißenberger - trumpets / Georg Schrattenholzer, Hermann Mayr - trombones / Albin Waid, Ben Brachtel - guitars / Anda Tentschert, Jonathan Frick - piano / Saso Gacnik - synth. / Thomas Stempkowski - bass / Raimund Vogtenhuber - electr. / Florian Baumgartner, Michael Kellner - drums, perc. / Christoph Cech - cond., comp.

9:00 pm    Brückenköpfe Ensemble plays
Michael Mantler: Chamber Music and Songs

Trumpet, PSS, A l'Abattoir, Movies, Silence, Cerco, Alien, Songs, Light, News, Understating

Lana Cencic, Hari Baumgartner, Markus Wolf - vocals / Polina Titova - flute / Karin Grammel - oboe / Alexander Maurer, Eberhard Reiter - clarinets / Charlie Schmid - tenorsax / Mario Rom - trumpet / Lois Eberl - trombone / Christina Schauer - tuba / Robert Pockfuss - guitar / Martin Sedlmeier - vibes, marimba / Bernhard Geigl - piano / Simon Frick, Denise Fait - violins / Christine Schicho - viola / Anna Lang - cello / Lukas Kranzelbinder - bass / Christoph Cech - cond. / Michael Mantler - coach.

Michael Mantler: 
 
born 1943 in Vienna, studied trumpet at the Vienna Music Academy and musicology at the University of Vienna. Went to the US in 1962 to continue his studies there. He played in the New Yorker avant-garde at an early stage, with Cecil Taylor and the Jazz Composer's Guild, among others. He was awarded the composition scholarship from the Creative Artists Program Service, the National Endowment for the Arts, and also a scholarship from the Ford Foundation for the recording of a work for double orchestra.
Mantler has made many recordings with the most diverse musicians, including an album with the string players of the London Symphony Orchestra plus soloists (Something There) and several recordings of songs with texts by poets such as Samuel Beckett (No Answer), Harold Pinter (Silence), and Edward Gorey (The Hapless Child).
Commissioned works and performances by and with European orchestras followed: concerts with the German radio stations Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk, with the opera in Lille, and with Swedish and Danish radios.
In 1991 he returned to Europe to live and work in Copenhagen.
In December 2004 Mantler was awarded the State Prize for Improvised Music from the Austrian Federal Chancellery, in May 2005 the Jakob Prandtauer Prize from the City of St. Pölten (the city of his youth), and in November 2007 the Prize of the City of Vienna for Music.