Wolfgang Reisinger (musician, 1955)
Wolfgang Reisinger (born July 16, 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian jazz drummer.
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Reisinger received his first musical training at the age of five with the Vienna Boys' Choir . He then studied piano at the Vienna Conservatory and drums with Richard Hochrainer at the Hochschule für Musik .
From 1975 to 1977 Reisinger was a member of the Medaya Trio (with guitarist Voja Brkovitc and pianist Beat Furrer ), with whom he toured Austria, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. In 1979 he became a percussionist with the Vienna Art Orchestra , of which he was a member until 1989. In 1981 Reisinger founded the Part of Art group , which included Wolfgang Puschnig , Uli Scherer , Herbert Joos and Jürgen Wuchner as soloists from the Vienna Art Orchestra . He performed with Part of Art in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France and recorded his first CDs as a band leader. After a tour with Hans Koller , he founded the group Air Mail (with Harry Pepl ), Wolfgang Puschnig and Mike Richmond . In 1986 he became a member of Wolfgang Mitterer's Quartet Pat Brothers (with Linda Sharrock and Wolfgang Puschnig), whose album Pat Brothers No. 1 the price of the German Record Critics received.
After leaving the Vienna Art Orchestra , Reisinger became a member of the European Jazz Trio with François Couturier and Jean-Paul Céléa in 1989 . He also worked in Paris with Dominique Pifarély , Yves Robert and Philippe Deschepper and performed at the Moers Festival with Louis Sclavis . In the same year, the album Matador was created in collaboration with Mitterer . Between 1994 and 1996 he worked with musicians such as Enrico Rava , John Abercrombie , Evan Parker , Michel Godard , Herb Robertson and Peter Kowald .
In 1996 Reisinger founded the trio Céléa Liebman Reisinger . Her first CD, World View , received the French choc de la musique critics' award , the second (Missing a Page) the Diapason d'or . In 1999, the Spirits group was founded . a. performed with Karl Ritter , Peter Herbert , Andy Manndorff , Klaus Dickbauer , John Schröder and Franz Hauzinger .
In 2000 he became a member of Joachim Kühn's new trio (alongside Jean Paul Céléa) . In addition, he continued to work in the trio formation with Céléa and Dave Liebman. Since 2002 he has formed the duo Double Night with Liebman . In 2004 he founded the group Refusion , whose debut album of the same name was released in 2006.
In addition to his work as a jazz musician, Reisinger was always active in the field of classical and improvisational music. As early as 1973 he belonged to the experimental group First Vienna Music Circus , which turned music into dance performances. Since the mid-1970s he worked with the composer Thomas Pernes . 1978 was a commissioned composition for the Vienna Burgtheater Hippodrome . With the Quintet Passage, founded in 1990 (with Armand Angster , Françoise Kubler , Francois Couturier and Jean-Paul Céléa) the CDs Passage and L'Ibere were created . Reisinger performed with Passenger in France in the mid-1990s. At the Töne & Gegentöne festival , Reisinger performed with the Japanese koto player Kazue Sawai ; he also played in a duo with Agustí Fernández .
In 1987 he worked with the London Symphony Orchestra , and in 1991 he took part in the Austrian premiere of Luciano Berios Circles . In 2001 he wrote incidental music for the theater klas auf der Heunburg in Carinthia. Here he also founded the music festival , which is supposed to bring together classical music, avant-garde, jazz and ethnic music. Since 2003 he has also been working with the composer Franz Koglmann . In 2009 Reisinger was awarded the Hans Koller Prize in two categories .
Discography
- Moebius (Part of Art), 1981
- Son Sauvage (Part of Art), 1983
- Prayer for Peace (Air Mail), 1984
- Light Blues (Air Mail)
- Pat Brothers No. 1 , 1986
- Passage (Passage), 1990
- L'Ibere (Passenger), 1994
- Matador , 1994
- World View (Trio Céléa, Liebman, Reisinger), 1996
- Speakers Corner (with Franz Hauzinger and Martin Siewert ), 1998
- Missing a Page (Trio Céléa, Liebman, Reisinger), 1999
- Ghosts (Trio Céléa, Liebman, Reisinger), 2001
- Refusion (Liebman, Marc Ducret , Matthew Garrison , Céléa, Mitterer, Reisinger), 2006
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Reisinger, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |