Reinhardt Reissner Big Band

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The Reinhardt Reissner Big-Band is a party and gala band from Bavaria, founded in 1988, which plays modern as well as classical dance and entertainment music with a flexible line-up and thus provides musical accompaniment to events worldwide.

Big-Band performance, Friedberg, 2015

history

At the beginning of 1988, Reißner founded his "Pfalz-Neuburger-Musikanten". With this young troupe, they soon went to Carrara , Ingolstadt's twin town in Italy, and in 1992 after the political change for the first time to Eastern Europe. The destination was Transylvania and the Banat in Romania . This was followed by a three-week concert tour to Moscow , Omsk and Novosibirsk in Siberia . The following year the second four-week tour through Brazil followed. On behalf of the Institute for Foreign Affairs IfA, concert tours to Poland , with concerts in the German minority areas in Silesia, Pomerania, West and East Prussia, followed under the patronage of the German President of the Bundestag Rita Süssmuth .

In 1998, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of this orchestra, an anniversary trip to Southeast Asia was started with numerous followers. They visited Singapore and the two islands of Penang and Langkawi .

In 1999 the island of Malta was visited with music and in 2001 the Oktoberfest went to Sydney in Australia . In 2006, Cape Town and the  Cape of Good Hope in South Africa followed . In 2007 she made a concert tour to Canada and North America. Reinhardt Reissner was in a small cast in the People's Republic of China and several times in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia .

The orchestra was renamed Reinhardt Reissner Big-Band at the end of the 1990s. In addition to mood and light music, the repertoire was expanded to include dance music. The highlights were the musical design of the Austrian State Championships in standard and Latin American dances.

repertoire

The Reinhard Reissner Big Band plays modern songs as well as classics from the field of dance and popular music. Her repertoire includes standard dances such as Slow Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox and Quickstep, as well as Latin American dances such as Samba, Cha Cha Cha, Rumba, Paso Doble and Jive.

Band leader Reinhardt Reissner

Reinhardt Reissner with Pope Johannes Paul, Augsburg, 1987
TV appearance, Captain Cook and his singing saxophones, ZDF, 2003

Reinhardt Reißner, who was born in Bad Ischl, was already there when his father founded a brass band in Feldkirchen in 1963. In 1971 he took over its leadership and in 1978 formed this village chapel into the city chapel of Neuburg-Feldkirchen. Even as a music student, he took part in major festivals in France with a band from Munich.

From 1973 to 2012 Reissner was a teacher at the State Paul-Winter Realschule in Neuburg ad Donau. With his school orchestra he went on numerous concert tours to other European countries from the mid-1990s. The highlights were the musical accompaniment of the general audience of Pope John Paul II in Rome in 2001 , the visit to the monastic republic on Mount Athos in Greece , the participation in the Carneval in Venice and the music with a hundred students for the Bavarian Prime Minister in the Munich State Chancellery. On July 28, 2011, under the patronage of the Bavarian Minister of Culture Ludwig Spaenle , Reißner conducted more than 2,000 pupils on Karlsplatz in Neuburg on the occasion of the 1st Bavarian Wind Class Day.

In his free time, Reissner devoted himself to down-to-earth brass music, trained a large number of young people and reached the top or art level in music competitions. The first multi-day performance at the Rhenish Carnival took place as early as 1976, a musical connection that still exists today. Reissner soon began to travel abroad with a large brass orchestra. So it went to Brazil in 1983 under the patronage of Member of the Bundestag Horst Seehofer . In 1984 he took part in the Steuben Parade in New York . Concert tours to Belgium and Séte in southern France followed.

From 2002 to 2004 Reinhardt Reissner was also the front man of the band "Captain Cook with his singing saxophones" on ZDF and MDR . With this troupe he reached the finals in the " International Grand Prix of Folk Music " in 2003 .

For several years now, Reinhardt Reissner has also worked as a DJ at all kinds of events, but mainly at family celebrations and birthdays, and as an experienced wedding DJ.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ OV, Chronik, Reinhardt Reissner Big-Band, online at http://www.reissner-band.de/chronik.html
  2. ^ OV, Repertoire, Reinhardt Reissner Big-Band, online at http://www.reissner-band.de/repertoire.html
  3. ^ A life between music and politics , Augsburger Allgemeine, July 28, 2016
  4. ^ OV, Chronik, Reinhardt Reissner Big-Band, online at http://www.reissner-band.de/chronik.html