Burkhard Stangl

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John Butcher and Burkhard Stangl

Burkhard Paul Stangl (born November 6, 1960 in Eggenburg ) is an Austrian avant-garde and jazz guitarist and composer .

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Stangl first studied classical and later electric guitar at the Vienna Conservatory as well as cultural anthropology and musicology at the University of Vienna . In 1985 he founded the jazz ensemble Ton.Art , with which he worked until 1995 and in 1991 the chamber ensemble for new music Maxixe . Since the late 1990s he has been working with the groups Polwechsel and Plus-Minus as well as with Christof Kurzmann (album Schnee ). In the 1990s, Stangl was a member of Franz Koglmann's Monoblue Quartet , on whose album We Thought About Duke he participated in 1994.

Other musical partners of Stangl include John Butcher , Angélica Castelló , Eugene Chadbourne , Tony Coe , Oswald Egger , Seppo Gruendler , Boris Hauf , Steve Lacy , Anestis Logothetis , Radu Malfatti , Walter Malli , Ernesto Molinari , Donna Wagner-Molinari , Sainkho Namtchylak , Helmut Neugebauer , Olga Neuwirth , Gunter Schneider , Martin Siewert and Taku Sugimoto .

Stangl composed choral and orchestral works as well as chamber music. His opera The Moon of Venus premiered in 1997 on the Empire State Building .

He currently teaches music at the AHS Heustadelgasse in Vienna.

Discography

Fonts

  • Ethnology in the ear. The history of the phonograph. Wiener Universitäts Verlag, Vienna 2000.
  • with Hans Schneider, Cordula Bösze (ed.): Sound networks. An attempt to invent reality with your ears. Pfau, Saarbrücken 2000.

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