Michael Radanovics

Michael Radanovics (born March 19, 1958 in Steyr ) is an Austrian violinist (jazz and classical music) and composer .

Life

Michael Radanovics passed his Matura in 1976. From 1977 to 1985 he studied violin with Michael Frischenschlager and from 1978 to 1981 music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . From 1981 to 1985 he also studied jazz theory with Karl Heinz Czadek at the Vienna Conservatory .

From 1982 to 1985 he was a member of the jazz band Augmented Nine and from 1983 to 1988 of the symphony orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper . Since 1988 he has played in the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra . In 1987 he co-founded the Motus Quartet by playing as the first violinist until 2000 . The string quartet also included Tscho Theissing (violin), Franz Bayer (viola) and Michael Dallinger (violoncello). Radanovics composed and arranged jazz and improvisation music for the cast. Concert tours have taken him through Europe, America and Asia. Radanovics has been publishing educational literature with Universal Edition since 1990 . Since 2000 he has been the editor of a songbook by Roland Neuwirth at the music publisher Doblinger , in whose new folk music group Extremschrammeln he played from 1998. In 2003 he founded the duo Zimt & Zauber with the singer Petra Hartl .

Michael Radanovics has been a member of the Swiss composer group Groupe Lacroix since 1996 .

Awards

• 1994: 2nd prize at the Leibnitzer Art Prize for Jazz Composition (for Metafile for Frank )
• 1998: 3rd prize at the Franz Joseph Reindl composition competition
• 2003: 3rd prize at the Gustav Mahler composition competition of the city of Klagenfurt (for The Miracle of Numbers )
• 2007: Winner of the “Vinum et Litterae” competition, Krems an der Donau

Publications

• 1990: Jazzy Violin 1 (Universal Edition)
• 1992: Jazzy Violin 2 (Universal Edition)
• 1993: Songbook for 2 violins (Universal Edition)
• 1994: Children's songs (Universal Edition)
• 1994: Jazzy Cello 1 (Universal Edition)
• 1995: Favorites (Universal Edition)
• 1998: Folk & Fiddle (Universal Edition)
• 1999: Riffs & Tunes (Doblinger Verlag)

Discography (selection)

• 1994: Crimson Flames ( Creative Works Records ) with the Motus Quartet
• 1996: Introversion (musicaphone) with Nebojša Jovan Živković (marimba / vibraphone), Austrian Chamber Symphony, Ernst Theis (conductor)
• 2003: Groupe Lacroix : 8 Pieces on Paul Klee (Creative Works Records) with the Ensemble Sortisatio
• 2006: Train Songs (CCNC) with the Spring String Quartet
• 2008: Where the wind blows ( extra plate ) with Petra Hartl
• 2009: In mir daham (extra plate ) with Petra Hartl
• 2011: MondoLine / Du Liebst (Sturm & Klang) with Konstantin Wecker

literature

• Christian Fastl : Radanovics, Michael. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
• Radanovics, Michael. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 369.

Web links

• Works by and about Michael Radanovics in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Radanovics at the Music Information Center Austria
• Michael Radanovics at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Kürschner's Musicians Handbook, 2006.
2. ^ Peter Zacher : Austrian composers of the middle generation . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 30, 2004, p. 7.
3. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 166.
4. ↑ Cinnamon & Magic . Site of cinnamon and magic. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
5. ^ Groupe Lacroix in the Music Information Center Austria
6. ↑ The miracle of sheet music . In: Kleine Zeitung , June 16, 2003, p. 40.