Simon Zöchbauer

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Simon Zöchbauer in the Wiener Sargfabrik in March 2014

Simon Zöchbauer (* 1988 in Herzogenburg , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian trumpeter, composer, improviser, singer and zither player.

Career

Born into a musical family, he grew up with traditional music and later with brass music. In addition to classical trumpet studies, he began to take singing lessons and to learn the zither at the age of 19. He began his musical training at the Herzogenburg Music School. The desire to learn the trumpet arose when, as a 9-year-old, on a trip to New Orleans , he saw brass bands marching for the first time . After receiving first prize with distinction at the Prima la Musica national competition in 2003, he decided to become a professional musician and began studying the trumpet from 2004 to 2006 at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. From 2008 to 2015 he studied the trumpet concert at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and received further lessons from Bo Nilsson, Markus Stockhausen and Reinhold Friedrich , with whom he studied for a semester in Karlsruhe.

In 2014, because of his musical work, he was awarded the Austrian Federal Chancellery 's starting scholarship for music, as a result of which he traveled to New York City for several months to take lessons in improvisation and composition.

style

The largely autodidactically learned, individual compositional style of Simon Zöchbauer is influenced by elements of traditional Austrian instrumental and vocal music as well as by jazz, classical and experimental music.

Projects

Simon Zöchbauer is a member of the Federspiel formation , which has existed since 2004, as well as the Ramsch and Rosen duo founded in 2011/13. With both projects he is internationally active and plays concerts in Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, France, Switzerland, Lithuania, Hungary, Spain, England, Belgium, the USA and Canada. In addition to compositions for his two projects Federspiel and Ramsch und Rosen, Simon Zöchbauer works on music for string quartet and trumpet.

Sound carrier

  • Federspiel: Federspiel (2010)
  • Federspiel: Unheard of Boom (2012)
  • Federspiel: Live from the Wiener Musikverein (2014)
  • Junk and Roses: Bellver (2014)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Zöchbauer's biography ; accessed on May 6, 2015
  2. ^ Die Presse : Simon Zöchbauer: A new era of brass music ; Retrieved April 26, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Zöchbauer, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian trumpeter, composer, improviser, singer and zither player
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenburg , Lower Austria