Austrotop
Austrotop is an Austropop co-association from Lower Austria .
| Austrotop | |
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 Austrotop at Radio Vienna Hiking Day |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Austropop |
| founding | 2005 |
| Current occupation | |
| Hannes Wiesinger | |
| Reinhard Reiskopf | |
| Gery Seidl | |
| Stephan Gössinger | |
| Johannes Grill | |
| Alexander Dostal | |
| Christoph Schuster | |
history
In 2000, Hannes Wiesinger, Gery Seidl and Reinhard Reiskopf met to perform together in the musical "The Winged Dragon" . Gery Seidl gave the Bobo , Reinhard Reiskopf the Prince and Hannes Wiesinger Klaus the Bold . Then the three of them parted ways again. Reinhard and Hannes continued to play musicals and so these two ran into each other again and again. About five years later Reiskopf got in touch again with the cabaret artist Gery Seidl. In the meantime, Hannes Wiesinger founded an Austropop formation called “Lokalverbot” , although actions of the same were limited to the immediate vicinity in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel .
Finally, one day Reinhard Reiskopf was overwhelmed by the idea of " starting a really cool Austropop cover band" because he noticed at various events that the audience was enthusiastic about autropop. He liked the idea of Austria 3 with just three front people and so he asked those people who were most obvious to him for this project. Hannes Wiesinger immediately agreed and Gery Seidl was brought on board as the third front man, who was also enthusiastic about the idea. They got together to follow their passion together to play “Austropop, freely interpreted, clean and dignified on the stage, carrying on the spirit and attitude to life of an entire generation”.
At first there were three successful concerts, the concerts, in which cabaret interludes by the three front people between the songs, were appreciated by the audience. So the concerts got bigger and bigger and a band was hired. This is how Austrotop became known and asked about the borders of the Weinviertel. The formation plays around 5 to 10 gigs a year, mostly in Lower Austria, but now also in Tyrol . The highlight of 2011 was the appearance at the onion festival in Laa an der Thaya , where Austrotop performed the best of the Austropop genre in front of several thousand spectators , “enthusiastically acclaimed by the audience”.
Austrotop supports the handshake4life association in the fight against spinal muscular atrophy . So there was a benefit concert for this association in March 2011 , at which Herbert Prohaska also made a guest appearance in the song "Rostige Flügel" . Furthermore occurred Austrotop on a light in the darkness -Benefizgala in Großpetersdorf on (1 December 2007).
Members
Reinhard Reiskopf
Born in 1971 in Mistelbach , Lower Austria. 1973 moved to Vienna, where he spent his childhood and youth. With the era of Rainhard Fendrich and other Austrotop greats, his interest in music awoke. In 1987 he studied saxophone for two years at the Penzing Music School and then learned guitar from a private teacher. In 1989 Reinhard joined Jonnys Combo , his father's band. The first TV appearance follows later in Licht ins Dunkel . From the 1990s on, Reiskopf mainly played musicals but also concerts with his band Kornfeld , and others. a. in the Viennese scene- Beisl Roter Engel , but also in the Wiener Stadthalle . The Kornfeld formation went on tour with stars like Hansi Hinterseer , Claudia Jung and others. In 2010 Reiskopf became the singer and frontman of the German band "Funky Petes" . Reinhard worked more and more on his solo career and, also in collaboration with the guitarist Johannes Grill, more and more original compositions were created.
Hannes Wiesinger
Wiesinger received instrumental lessons on clarinet and saxophone as a child . As a saxophonist, he made his first band experiences in various formations from blues to rock . Later there was private vocal training. He discovered his passion for the musical and played roles a. a. in “ Les Misérables ”, “ Jesus Christ Superstar ”, “ Hair ” and “ Sweeney Todd ”. He founded the musical tour production “A Musical Night” and together with Stefan Gössinger he brought his own musical to the stage.
Gery Seidl
Born in 1975 in Vienna , grew up in Höflein on the Danube . 1996 graduation from HTL building construction with high school diploma , then professional life as construction manager . Seidl later enjoyed an actor training from the actor and cabaret artist Herwig Seeböck . Then resigned from the job of construction manager in order to only work as an actor, cabaret artist and singer. Gery Seidl has received many awards, including a. 2008 with the Austrian Cabaret Prize .
Stefan Gössinger
At the age of 7 Gössinger received training in trumpet and percussion. Later he specialized in jazz trumpet and learned the keyboard on the side in self-study. This was followed by diverse and award-winning work as a composer of musicals, chamber music for jazz ensembles, pop / rock and football anthems, such as that of SK Rapid Wien .
Johannes Grill
Grill received seven years of violin lessons at the Franz Schubert Conservatory , including classical guitar lessons at the age of 14 . Subsequently he also learned to play the electric guitar . Grill studied music and graduated in jazz guitar , composition and arrangement . He also gained stage experience at home and abroad. At the moment he is active as a versatile guitarist, especially in the Weinviertel music scene. Grill writes musicals himself and is the most sought-after stage guitarist in northern Lower Austria.
Alexander Dostal
Dostal studied drums at the Vienna Conservatory and popular music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He currently plays u. a. for Manuel Ortega and Eva Maria Marold .
Christoph Schuster
Schuster has been an active musician since 1990 and has played concerts in Europe and the USA . He is currently an active member of Primetime , Austria 2 1/2 , Stefan Gössinger & Band , Chez Toi , Fish & Chips and Longfield Gospel . His musical spectrum ranges from pop, rock, jazz , blues, funk , Austropop to country and musical.
Web links
- Data and videos on Gery Seidl's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Founding legend on the Austrotop website ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 26, 2011
- ↑ Niederösterreichische Nachrichten , print edition 34/2011, p. 26.
- ↑ “Not to cry at all”, on noen.at , accessed on December 27, 2011.
- ↑ Austrotop benefit concert ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the handshake4life website, accessed on January 2, 2011
- ↑ Video on Austrotop's website ( memento of the original from March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 26, 2011.
- ↑ Musical journey on orf.at, accessed on January 2, 2011
- ↑ Biography on Reinhard Reiskopf's website , accessed on December 26, 2011
- ↑ Austrian Cabaret Prize 2008 - winners are Klaus Eckel and Gery Seidl on oe1.orf.at, accessed on January 2, 2012.
- ↑ Curriculum vitae on Gery Seidl's website, accessed on December 26, 2011
- ↑ Biography on Stefan Gössinger's website , accessed on December 26, 2011
- ↑ Former students of the Schubert Conservatory ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christoph Schuster's website ( memento of the original from March 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 26, 2011
