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