Johannes Bear

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With David Helbock's Random Control at the INNtöne Jazzfestival 2019

Johannes Bär (born April 6, 1983 in Andelsbuch ) is an Austrian jazz and entertainment musician ( trumpet , trombone , euphonium , bass flugelhorn, tuba , sousaphone , vocals, composition, arranger).

Live and act

Bär, who comes from a family of musicians, tried to play the trumpet at the age of three. After taking lessons from his father Rudolf, a hobby musician, he made his first appearance at the age of five with the Vorarlberg group Familienmusik Bär . From 1981 this was dedicated to traditional folk music and consisted of his father Rudolf, his siblings and himself. From 1992 to 1996 he was trained by Josef Eberle at the music school in Dornbirn. He then studied with Lothar Hilbrand at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory , where he graduated with honors in 2004. Then he completed classical instrumental studies with Hans Gansch at the Mozarteum Salzburg . During his studies, Bär played in the university orchestra and in the ensembles Pro Brass , Sound Inn Brass and the Vorarlberg group Stella Brass , with whom he toured numerous times and performed in Russia and Southeast Asia in addition to Europe. Since 2001 he has belonged to the Holstuonarmusigbigbandclub , for which he also writes all the arrangements, to voXXclub , to Peter Madsen's formation CIA , to Matthias Schriefl's Six, Alps & Jazz and his Moving Krippenspielers, with whom he can be heard on a CD and to David Helbocks Random / Control , with which he recorded three albums.

Bär composed for the university orchestra of the Mozarteum as well as for the MaChlast brass band . He also set poems by the Vorarlberg dialect poet Gebhard Wölfle to music in pop style (released in 2005 on the CD old bat nü ).

Prizes and awards

Johannes Bear (2012)

Between 1995 and 2002, Bär won numerous first prizes in solo and ensemble playing at the Prima la musica competition.

Discographic notes

  • Matthias Schriefl Moving Krippenspielers Vol. 1 (Resonando, October 2019)
  • David Helbocks Random / Control Tour d´Horizon ( ACT 2018)
  • VoXXclub Geiles Himmelblau (Rosenklang 2016)
  • Matthias Schriefl Six, Alps & Jazz (ACT 2012)
  • Holstuonarmusigbigbandclub Lieble (greenbee records 2011)
  • Collective of Improvising Artists Thousand Miles Journey (Boomslang 2010, with Anton Meusburger, Herbert Walser , Aleksandra Lartseva, Bianca Riesner, Norbert Dehmke, Andreas Broger, Alain Wozniak, Peter Madsen, David Helbock, Dominik Neunteufel, Marc Vogel , Alfred Vogel )
  • Holstuonarmusigbigbandclub Querschlager (2007)

Web links

Commons : Johannes Bär  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short bio (Random / Control)
  2. ↑ Portrait of the band (magazine of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna) ( Memento from January 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Meeting (the headphones)
personal data
SURNAME Bear, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz and entertainment musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Andelsbuch