Andy Manndorff
Andy Manndorff (born February 24, 1957 in Vienna ; † September 8, 2017 there ) was an Austrian composer and jazz guitarist .
Life
Manndorff, the son of the politician Ferdinand Manndorff , studied classical guitar at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . From 1980 to 1987 he worked in Amsterdam, then until 1995 in New York.
Since 1995 Manndorff has been working mainly on his own projects in Vienna. He also composed chamber music as well as the opera Larry for the Künstlerhaus Wien and taught electric and acoustic guitar at the Vienna Music Institute .
Manndorff has performed on tours and concerts in Europe, the USA and Africa. He played with the Karnataka College of Percussion and the Vienna Art Orchestra (Two Little Animals) and led two trio formations (with Achim Tang and Reinhardt Winkler and with Georg Breinschmid and Wolfgang Reisinger ). His regular musical partners included Wolfgang Puschnig (Mixed Metaphors) , Dave Liebman , Thomas Kaufmann, violinist Andi Schreiber and Moa Janes.
His final resting place is in the Hinterbrühl cemetery .
Discographic notes
- Blue glass
- The Gatecrasher , 1992
- Talking Elevator , 1997
- Hakoah , 1999
- Matter and Motion , 2001 (solo)
- Thomas Pernes / Andy Manndorff Perndorff , 2004
- Hard Poetry , 2004
- Up to Scratch , 2005
- Reports from Inside , 2007 (with Andi Schreiber)
- You Break It - You Own It , 2008 (manndorff trio)
- Dirt and Soil , 2011 ( Clemens Wenger , Stomu Takeishi , Ted Poor )
- Pandora , 2016
Web links
- Official website
- Biography with a discographic list on atrium-ed-arte.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Viennese jazz guitarist Andy Manndorff died at the age of 60 and obituary (musikreviews.de)
- ↑ mica interview with Andy Manndorff. musicaustria.com. March 31, 2008, accessed December 9, 2016.
- ^ Andy Manndorff - Dirt & Soil. musicaustria.com. March 3, 2011, accessed December 9, 2016.
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SURNAME | Manndorff, Andy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and jazz guitarist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 2017 |
Place of death | Vienna |