Michael Radanovics

Michael Radanovics (born 19 March 1958) is an Austrian violinist (jazz and classic) and composer.

Life

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 [de] 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 [de] (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 [de] 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

  • 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 [de] of the city of Klagenfurt.[6] (for Das Wunder der Zahlen)
  • 2007: Winner of the "Vinum et Litterae" competition, Krems on the Danube

Publications

  • 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

Literature

  • 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

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch, 2006.
  2. ^ Peter Zacher: Austrian composers of the middle generation. In Leipziger Volkszeitung 30 July 2004, p. 7.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Zimt & Zauber. Website of Zimt und Zauber. retrieved on 17 June 1920.
  5. ^ Groupe Lacroix im Music Information Center Austria [de]
  6. ^ Das Wunder der Noten. In the Kleine Zeitung, dated 16 June 2003, p. 40.
  7. ^ Michael Radanovics in Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon