CONCERT Georg Gratzer & Klemens Bittmann TELEMANNIA
Time: Wednesday, May 15, 7:30 p.m. .
Venue: Taborkirche Weiz, Hauptplatz 1, 8160 Weiz
Historical compositions in a historical location to honor a historical artist: Walter Kratner. That is the aim of the TELEMANNIA concert by the two exceptional musicians Georg Gratzer & Klemens Bittmann on 15 May in the Taborkirche Weiz.
In April 2023, the man who was known far beyond the Weizer artist Walter Kratner, who was Weiz artist Walter Kratner. He left behind works all over the world, but above all but the town of Weiz in particular owes him some of its most impressive works of art to him. But the "pfingstArt" festival, which he founded and curated and curated by him until his death, has also left an immortal mark on the the art city of Weiz. One of the most important venues for this festival was the Taborkirche, whose artistic design also goes back to Kratner. also goes back to Kratner.
To continue this legendary concert series and to commemorate the one-year anniversary of anniversary of Walter Kratner's death, the KOMM.ST Festival invites you to a special concert evening on May 15. May to a special concert evening in the church on Weizer Hauptplatz: TELEMANNIA with Georg Gratzer & Klemens Bittmann With over 3600 recorded works, Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) is one of the most one of the most prolific composers in music history. He also influenced influenced civic concert life by organizing public performances outside of aristocratic or ecclesiastical framework. Telemann thus became the pop star of Baroque music. As one of the first great composers, he was intensively involved with folkloric music from Eastern Europe and incorporated these experiences into his works. Above all especially his sonatas in the canon are still among the most congenial pieces pieces in the history of music. This was the reason for the two musicians Georg Gratzer & Klemens to engage intensively with the work of Telemann to deal with it.
"Jazz meets Telemann". As nice and succinct as this title is, it falls short it falls short, because Georg Gratzer & Klemens Bittmann not only interpret the music of Georg not only interpret the music of Georg Philipp Telemann in their own very personal way, but also well-known melodies by Astor Piazzolla, jazz fusion by John McLaughlin, masterpieces from film music and their own compositions. Above all, their collaboration is characterized by the joy of discovering the art of duo playing together. Beginning with the baroque to contemporary improvisations, Georg Gratzer & Klemens Batzer Georg Gratzer & Klemens Bittmann have been illuminating and enlivening these unusual instrumentations this form of the most direct musical dialog.
No place could be better for this evening than the Taborkirche Weiz, which has has had a firm place in the history of the town for almost 1000 years. Thus The first documented mention of the church dates back to May 11th 1188, when Luitold von Guttenberg handed over property in Weiz to Göß Abbey. to Göß Abbey. The town is also mentioned for the first time in the same document. Over the centuries, the church was extended and rebuilt several times, until Walter Kratner was finally commissioned to redesign the chancel in 2004. redesign the chancel. As in many of his other works, he has uncovered the beauty of the old in order to harmonize it with the magic of the new. This harmony that resonates through the centuries is also the focus of the Telemannia concert on May 15.
Georg Gratzer, a multi-instrumentalist from Styria, went to Graz after after studying jazz saxophone at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz first to London, followed by New York, before traveling to India numerous trips to India, China and South America to expand his and South America to expand his range of instruments and integrate various types of traditional traditional folk music into his musical cosmos.
Klemens Bittmann, musician, composer and arranger from Graz, plays violin and mandola. He studied classical violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and jazz violin with Didier Lockwood in Paris. In Austria he founded the formations Beefólk, Folksmilch and BartolomeyBittmann, in which he played is active as a violinist, mandola player, composer and arranger. Among others he has worked with Wolfgang Muthspiel, Alegre Correa, Broadlahn, Maria Bill, Ursula Strauss and the Radio String Quartet as arranger of the Mahavishnu project.
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