Robert Michael White

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Robert Michael Weiß (born August 1, 1956 in Vienna ) is an Austrian jazz musician (piano), harpsichordist and composer. Until 2010 he was deputy director of the Josef Matthias Hauer Conservatory of the City of Wiener Neustadt , and since 2010 he has been deputy director of the Josef Matthias Hauer Music School.

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From 1975, Weiss studied piano, music and instrumental pedagogy at the Vienna University of Music, from 1976 jazz piano (with Fritz Pauer ) at the Vienna Conservatory , harpsichord and Josef Matthias Hauer's twelve-tone playing with Hauer's student Victor Sokolowski . In 1984 he attended a workshop by George Russell .

From the late 1970s, Weiss performed internationally, first in the Duo Gemini with Woody Schabata on marimba and vibraphone ( Jazz Festival Middelheim , Belgium 1978) and on the first tour of the Vienna Art Orchestra . As a pianist he can be heard on CD in the first Austrian jazz production: Woody Schabata's “May-Rimba”. Since it was founded in 1983, it has been part of Franz Koglmann's “Pipetet” . He also performed in a duo with Lee Konitz , Jim Pepper , Roger Bobo and also with the violinist Ernst Kovacic .

Weiß was the conductor of the Austrian premiere (2000) of "M is For Man, Music, Mozart" by Louis Andriessen / Peter Greenaway . He formed the dance-music duo "Zweiacht" with the dancer Doris M. Reisinger (since 2002). He is the musical director of the jazz big band 11concertBand (CD and tour “Mingus Music”, 2007; “Money Jungle”, 2008). He also played in a duo with bass trombonist Dave Taylor (Brucknerhaus Linz, Vienna, Passau, 2008). In 1999 he was artist in residence for “ musik aktuell - new music in lower austria ”. He heads the jazz department of the Josef Matthias Hauer Conservatory (until 2010) and the Josef Matthias Hauer Music School (since 2010).

Weiß also emerged as the author of numerous twelve-tone plays and wrote compositions and improvisational concepts at the interface between jazz and modern concert music. The "Manhattan Brass Quintet", New York, the Koehne Quartet and the Niederösterreichische Tonkünstlerorchester played his compositions . In Austria he is considered the leading specialist in the compositions of Josef Matthias Hauer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Structural change at the public law conservatories in Austria as a result of the Bologna Process - example: Josef Matthias Hauer Conservatory and Music School of the City of Wiener Neustadt . Diploma thesis 2008, accessed on November 3, 2015.
  2. ^ Josef Matthias Hauer Music School . Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ entry (MICA)
personal data
SURNAME White, Robert Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz musician (piano), harpsichordist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna