Elmar Raida

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Elmar Raida (* 1958 in Grafenau ) is a Lower Bavarian composer and pianist.

Life

Elmar Raida studied jazz piano with Fritz Pauer in Vienna and has been working as a freelance composer and pianist since 1978. He started his career in the executioner's house in Passau. He became known through the so-called "Passauer Evenings" together with Sigi Zimmigart , Bruno Jonas and Rudolf Klaffenböck . In 1988 he started working with the Lower Bavaria State Theater. He composed the incidental music for the pieces “Die Komödie der Irrungen” (1988), “Schikaneder” (2004), “Marseillaise” (2006) and “Silbernase” (2006). Together with Sabine Hüttl he played the "Bavarian Classical Song Recital". In between, he impressed at the Bavarian National Theater in Munich with his compositions for “The Woman with the Shadow” by Matthias Politycki (1994) and “Der Öd” by Uwe Dick (1995).

In 1995 he founded the "Raida Singers". The "Raida Gang" came in 2001 with their CD "Raache Kruifara" on the best songs list of the southwest German broadcasting company SWR2. In 2002, the “Raida Gang” was one of the winners of “Songs on a Summer Evening” at Banz Monastery. In June 2002, Bavarian television made a film about her concert tour in Greece.

Elmar Raida himself received the culture award of the district of Passau in 1996 and in 1998 the cultural promotion award for East Bavaria.

Today Elmar Raida lives with his wife in Tiefenbach (near Passau) .

Discography

  • LP piano stories LOFT 1003
  • CD Erlkönig's shock troop SHAMS RECORDS 10008
  • CD RAIDA (Singers) the Bavarian MCCM Records
  • CD Raida Gang Raache Kruifara

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personal data
SURNAME Raida, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lower Bavarian composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafenau