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Peter Lenz Large Ensemble
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Peter Lenz Large Ensemble feat. Efrat Alony (A/ISR/USA)
The 16-piece orchestra presents music from the album ‘Breathe’, released in 2024, as well as brand new pieces from the pen of Peter Lenz. The diverse and dazzling compositions move in the border area of genres and thus avoid any stylistic pigeonholing.
Violeta Lenz accompanies the concerts as a video artist, creating live visuals, projections to the music that are created in the moment and create a unique visual dimension.
Big band, as the orchestral form of jazz, has a long tradition. Dazzling representatives such as Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Count Basie and many, many more have cemented big band as a stylistic form rather than a line-up in jazz history through their compositions. Peter Lenz tries to loosen this cement a little with his way of using large ensembles. (Press release)
Mr. Lenz's large ensemble compositions transcend the stylistic trappings often found in tradi- tional big bands. Peter's writing focuses on the essence of each song, the journey of each piece, and the inherent and natural sound of the band, which allows the music to be performed as well as listened to in the most effortless way. (Jim Black)
Program and cast
Peter Lenz: composer, drums
Efrat Alony: vocals
Reini P. Schmölzer: conductor
Violeta Lenz: live visuals
Matthew Halpin: tenor saxophone, flute
Stephanie Schoiswohl: baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Gerhard Ornig: Kenny Warren: trumpets
Matthias Bernsteiner, Sascha Krobath: trombones
Hannes Oppel: bass trombone
Kenji Herbert: guitar
Michael Lagger: piano
Raphael Meinhart: mallets
Stefan Lievestro: bass
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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