Sigi Feigl

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Sigi Feigl (born June 14, 1961 ) is an Austrian jazz musician on saxophone , band leader and concert organizer.

Live and act

Sigi Feigl studied at the Art University Graz in the 1980s, graduating in both classical clarinet and jazz saxophone. In 1980 he founded the Big Band Süd , which existed until 1997 and from whose line Feigl formed the Jazz Big Band Graz in 1999 and directed it until 2003. From 1989 he taught in the jazz department of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz . He organized the “Monday Nights” concert series at WIST in Graz. In 1986 he also founded the Leibnitz Symphonic Orchestra , which he directed until 2003. From 1993 to 1996 he ran the private music school Sigi Feigl . In 1997 he worked on the album Im Himmel ist der Hölle los der Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung with.

The Leibnitz Jazz Festival emerged from his concert initiatives in the 1990s, and since 1996 Feigl has organized several hundred cultural events as the director of “Culture in Leibnitz”. From his work at international jazz workshops for musical youth in Croatia, the “HGM Jazz Orkestar Zagreb” emerged in 2003, which he also directed. Feigl received the Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria in 2011 .

Discographic notes

  • Big Band Süd: Meet Big Band Süd (1993), with Toots Thielemans , Art Farmer , Bob Brookmeyer
  • Big Band South; Remember Big Band Süd - featuring Art Farmer (1995)
  • Jazz Big Band Graz; Here & There - music of Ed Neumeister (1999)
  • Jazz Big Band Graz; Q&A - music of Bob Brookmeyer (2000)
  • Jazz Big Band Graz; concerto for cello & big band; featuring Fritz Kleinhapl (2001)
  • HGM Jazzorkestar Zagreb: HGM plays The Beatles (2009)
  • HGM Jazzorkestar Zagreb: HGM plays Our Songs (2010)
  • HGM Jazzorkestar Zagreb: HGM plays for Christmas (2011)
  • HGM Jazzorkestar Zagreb: HGM plays the music of Ivo Robić (2013)
  • Jazz Orchestra Styria: "Next Page" - music of Karlheinz Miklin (2017)
  • Jazz Orchestra Styria: "The Big Base Band" - music of THE BASE (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigi Feigl awarded the State's Great Decoration of Honor (Jazzinstitut Graz) ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jazz.kug.ac.at
personal data
SURNAME Feigl, Sigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feigl, Siegi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz musician, big band leader and concert organizer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1961