Stefanie Boltz - FEMALE
FEMALE
Music made by women – a journey through centuries
As muses, they have always been in demand. However, creating art and music was for women over centuries no less outlandish than engaging in politics, playing soccer, or flying planes. "Giving birth to the world" is undoubtedly their domain: Despite all adversities, strong female musicians, following their calling, have created music of individual beauty over the centuries. However, they have not been as visible as they are present – even in times of quotas and gender acrobatics.
Hildegard von Bingen, Alma Mahler, Nina Simone, Kate Bush, Bessie Smith & Ma Rainey are just a few examples of women who were partly celebrated, partly forgotten, and sometimes recognized late. They have overcome hurdles and climbed unimaginable peaks. Thus, in the program FEMALE, heroines from the Middle Ages and Classical period, pioneers of blues, 'Women in Jazz', as well as contemporary songwriters – together with Stefanie Boltz – take the stage.
Stefanie Boltz and Christian Wegscheider want to pursue their individual paths. Collage-like snapshots from the lives and times of the artists bring us as close to their lives, reflections, and yearnings as to their works.
Stefanie Boltz (vocals)
Stefanie Boltz is an integral part of the German-speaking concert scene. For years, she explored the limits of the voice-bass duo 'Le Bang Bang' with Sven Faller, and has been in the spotlight for the past 8 years as a leader and songwriter under her own name. In addition, she runs a concert agency and curates her own festival formats, most recently as the artistic director of "Alpenrausch" at Gasteig HP8 in Munich. In 2021, she founded "JAZZBABY" with Christian Wegscheider, an ideology-free project blending blues, chamber music, and song or chanson – with jazz as the overarching theme. Her music is understood as a platform for 'brave music'. Courage not only for musically unusual, genre-crossing but also courage for much feeling, breakout, and escapade.
Christian Wegscheider (piano)
Christian Wegscheider begins his career as a self-taught musician on his father's home organ with foot bass and rhythm device. He later studies jazz piano at the Kunstuniversität Graz and receives the Austrian State Scholarship for Jazz in 1993. In the 1990s, he lives in NYC as a freelance musician and takes private lessons with Gary Dial. Back in Europe, he earns a reputation as a sought-after jazz pianist and participates in countless productions as a composer and arranger. Wegscheider works with the Jazz Orchestra Tirol, the Pepe Lienhard Big Band (Udo Jürgens), Willi Resetarits, John Arman, Leroy Emmanuel, Florian Bramböck, and releases numerous albums with his music. Wegscheider is also dedicated to an intensive engagement with composition for classical ensembles, including commissioned compositions for the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra, Instrumenti, the Mittelsächsische Philharmonie, and the Jazz Orchestra Tirol. Furthermore, he is a lecturer for jazz piano, theory, and jazz history at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He conducts training events and youth workshops. For his teaching material "JazzClub", he received the "Best Edition" award from the German Music Publishers in 2012.
Entry one hour before the start
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