Michael Radanovics (born 19 March 1958) is an Austrian violinist (jazz and classic) and composer.
Life edit
Born in Steyr, Radanovics passed his school-leaving examination in 1976. He studied violin with Michael Frischenschlager from 1977 to 1985 and music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1978 to 1981.[1] He studied jazz theory from 1981 to 1985 with Karl Heinz Czadek at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.[1]
From 1982 to 1985 he was a member of the jazz band Augmented Nine, and from 1983 to 1988 of the symphony orchestra of the Volksoper Wien.[1] Since 1988 he has played in the Radio-Symphony Orchestra Wien.[1] In 1987 he co-founded the Motus Quartet, playing as primarius until 2000.[2] The string quartet continued to belong to Tscho Theissing (violin), Franz Bayer (viola) and Michael Dallinger (cello).[3] Radanovics composed and arranged jazz and improvised music for the instrumentation. Concert tours have taken him through Europe, America, and Asia.[1]
Radanovics has published educational literature with Universal Edition since 1990. Since 2000 he has been the editor of a songbook by Roland Neuwirth at the Musikverlag Doblinger, in whose New Folk Music group Extremschrammeln he played since 1998. In 2003 he founded the duo Zimt & Zauber with the singer Petra Hartl.[4]
Since 1996, Radanovics has been a member of the Swiss composers group Groupe Lacroix.[5]
Awards edit
- 1994: 2. Prize at the Leibnitz Art Prize for Jazz Composition[1] (for Metafile for Frank)
- 1998: 3. Prize at the Franz Joseph Reindl Composition Competition.[1]
- 2003: 3. Prize at the Musikforum Viktring of the city of Klagenfurt.[6] (for Das Wunder der Zahlen)
- 2007: Winner of the "Vinum et Litterae" competition, Krems on the Danube
Publications edit
- 1990: Jazzy Violin 1 (Universal Edition)
- 1992: Jazzy Violin 2 (Universal Edition)
- 1993: Liederbuch Fuer 2 Geigen (Universal Edition)
- 1994: Children’s songs (Universal Edition)
- 1994: Jazzy Cello 1 (Universal Edition)
- 1995: Favorites (Universal Edition)
- 1998: Folk & Fiddle (Universal Edition)
- 1999: Riffs & Tunes (Doblinger Verlag)
Discography edit
- 1994: Crimson Flames (Creative Works Records) with the Motus Quartett
- 1996: Introversion (Musicaphon) with Nebojša Jovan Živković (Marimba/Vibraphon), Österreichische Kammersymphoniker, Ernst Theis (conductor)
- 2003: Groupe Lacroix: 8 Pieces on Paul Klee (Creative Works Records) with the Ensemble Sortisatio
- 2006: Train Songs (CCNC) with the Spring String Quartet
- 2008: Wo der Wind herwaht (Extraplatte) with Petra Hartl
- 2009: In mir daham (Extraplatte) with Petra Hartl
- 2011: MondoLine/Du Liebst (Sturm & Klang) with Konstantin Wecker
Literature edit
- Radanovics, Michael.[7] Online-edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5; Print edition: Volume 4, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005.
- Radanovics, Michael. In Axel Schniederjürgen (ed.): Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3, p. 369.
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch, 2006.
- ^ Peter Zacher: Austrian composers of the middle generation. In Leipziger Volkszeitung 30 July 2004, p. 7.
- ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation of the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginnings to the present. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8, p. 166.
- ^ Zimt & Zauber. Website of Zimt und Zauber. retrieved on 17 June 1920.
- ^ Groupe Lacroix im Music Information Center Austria
- ^ Das Wunder der Noten. In the Kleine Zeitung, dated 16 June 2003, p. 40.
- ^ Michael Radanovics in Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon
External links edit
- Literature by and about Michael Radanovics in the German National Library catalogue
- Michael Radanovics at Music Information Center Austria
- Michael Radanovics discography at Discogs
