Fraunhofer string music
The Fraunhofer Saitenmusik is a stringed instrument - Ensemble and a Bavarian music group, which is composed of the three musicians Heidi zinc (†), Richard Kurland and Gerhard zinc and is in almost unchanged manner since the year 1978th
The group is dedicated to traditional Bavarian-Alemannic folk music , taking up elements from Irish, Nordic, Slavic and other European folklore as well as from medieval and classical music, but also from various currents of contemporary music.
Their music is often classified under folk or world music .
career
Fraunhofer Saitenmusik was founded in August 1978 by Richard Kurländer and Heidi Zink in the traditional Munich inn at Fraunhofer . This location, in which they have appeared again and again since then, was the inspiration for the naming of the group, initially as Fraunhofer Stubnmusi . In autumn 1981 the music group was expanded by Gerhard Zink and Jörg Weickl. Weickl only stayed a short time.
At the beginning of their careers, representatives of traditional folk music were still a little piqued due to the group's appearance without traditional Bavarian clothes and Richard Kurländer's long hair. In the meantime, Fraunhofer string music has long since established itself as an undisputed constant in Bavarian musical culture.
In 1999 the musicians received the Bayerischer Poetentaler , with which personalities are honored who have made a special contribution to the culture in Bavaria.
The musical group's instruments include instruments such as dulcimer, harp, bass, guitar, string psaltery , kantele , Scherr zither and forest zither .
In addition to many concert appearances and the recording of CDs, they have also dealt with the musical framework for the play Die Hexe von Schongau by Herbert Rosendorfer .
The Danish folk musicians Harald Haugaard and Morten Alfred Høirup, the duo Haugaard & Høirup occurs worldwide in clubs and festivals, have the members of the Fraunhofer Saitenmusik to the group strings Treff joined forces in this combination, the audience also to the enthusiasm to impress.
Heidi Zink passed away unexpectedly on June 23, 2013 at the age of 59.
Reviews
In innumerable appearances on cabaret stages, at festivals and concerts mainly in German-speaking countries, sometimes together with other artists, the trio, as many critics find, presents artistic, timeless music full of calm and cheerfulness.
Discography
- 1983: Folk music in difficult times
- 1985: Against the rhythm of time
- 1986: No. 3
- 1989: intermediate sounds
- 1993: Gfanga hams it!
- 1993: Excursions
- 1996: '96
- 1998: The album 1978-1998
- 1998: … at Christmas time
- 2002: December
- 2005: sound spaces
- 2007: Thirty
- 2010: north-south
- 2016: upswing