Agnes Heginger

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Agnes Heginger

Agnes Heginger (* 1973 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian singer ( soprano ) and composer who has emerged in the field of jazz and improvisational music as well as in contemporary and early music .

Live and act

Heginger, who sang from childhood and performed in several bands as a teenager, received classical singing training at the Vienna Conservatory . This was followed by studying jazz singing at the Graz University of Art .

She founded her own bands with Songs and Other Noises and the Agnes Heginger Band . With the sextet Pago Libre , in the ensemble of Paul Gulda and in a trio with Christoph Cech and Peter Herbert, Heginger explored experimental jazz, with the Plasmic Quartet the new improvisational music . With Karlheinz Essl she worked in avant-garde electronics, with Klaus Wienerroither she cultivated the Viennese song and pop in the Duo Boa Boa , in the Trio extra virgine she combined jazz, folklore and vocal art together with Nika Zach and Ingrid Oberkanins . She also worked with Georg Breinschmid , Roland Neuwirth , Franz Hautzinger , Harry Pepl and Krzysztof Dobrek . In the last few years she has focused on setting texts by Austrian and German authors.

Heginger works as a singing lecturer at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz , but was also a lecturer at the Swiss Jazz School and the Jazz Institute Berlin .

Prizes and awards

Heginger won first prize at the 4th International Young Artists' Presentation - Early Music in Antwerp . The CD PlatzDaDA with Pago Libre received the German Record Critics' Prize .

Discography

  • Songs and Other Noises (ORF Edition Jazz 2002)
  • Ensemble Mikado: The Dark Is My Delight (ORF Edition Alte Musik 2005)
  • PLASMIC: Live at Chilli Jazz Festival 2013 ( Leo Records 2014)
  • Studio Dan & Agnes Heginger: Friedrich Cerha - One Last Kind of Chansons (Jazzwerkstatt Vienna 2015)
  • OUT OF THE BLUE (with Karlheinz Essl ): Sommerwellen (Nachstück Records 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Bandcamp Download Page
personal data
SURNAME Heginger, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt