Christian Wegscheider

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Christian Wegscheider (born September 30, 1965 ) is an Austrian jazz pianist , organist and composer .

Career

Wegscheider learned piano at the Innsbruck Music School and studied from 1987 to 1993 at the Graz University of Music . He graduated with a concert diploma in jazz piano and instrumental vocal pedagogy in piano. He then lived for two years in New York , where he took lessons from Garry Dial and performed in clubs.

Together with the bass player Andy Mayerl, the musician published the twelve-volume series of textbooks Jazz Club: Jazz spielend Learn at Edition Dux in 2012 , which was awarded the Best Edition Prize of the German Music Publishers Association in the same year . In 2014 his concert for jazz trio and orchestra was premiered with the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck .

Currently (2016) Wegscheider is teaching jazz piano at the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Innsbruck Music School in addition to his work as a freelance musician and composer . He is also chairman of the Ton Art Tirol association , which promotes jazz and improvised music. He works u. a. together with Willi Resetarits and often appeared as a member of the Pepe Linhard Band with Udo Jürgens .

Wegscheider lives in Wiesing .

Works (selection)

  • Waltz Psychosis for Chamber Orchestra (2008)
  • Encounters for string quartet , piano and percussion (2008)
  • Wild East for string quartet (2010)
  • Weselynes for string quartet and guitar (2011)
  • Cheerfully Forward Elegant Back for String Quartet (2013)
  • Concert for jazz trio and orchestra (2013)
  • All Inclusive for string orchestra and piano (2016)

Discography (selection)

  • Christian Wegscheider Trio - Live (2001; with Marc Abrams and Christian Salfellner )
  • Andy Mayerl, Christian Wegscheider - Mirror'in (2004)
  • Christian Wegscheider Trio plus - In June (2005)
  • WTH Trio - Made in Austria (2013; with Klaus Telfser and Peter Paul Hofmann )
  • Christian Wegscheider Trio - Mozart's Nightmare (2014)

Books

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Sunday matinees of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck in the 2008/2009 season. Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, accessed on April 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b biography of Christian Wegscheider. (PDF) Retrieved April 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Christian Wegscheider. In: Dux-verlag.de. ancora Verlagsservice Halbig e. K., accessed April 2, 2016 .
  4. ^ Christian Wegscheider: What I Do as a Composer. Retrieved April 15, 2016 .
  5. ↑ New notes and old friends . In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . September 21, 2015 ( tt.com [accessed March 5, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Udo Jürgens piano at concert. ORF , November 29, 2015, accessed on April 15, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Hauser: Sense and Sensibility . In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . No. 23 , January 23, 2016, p. 13 ( scan [accessed April 2, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Wegscheider, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1965