Adelhard Roidinger
Aderhard Roidinger | |
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| Born | 28 November 1941 Windischgarsten, Upper Austria Austria |
| Died | 22 April 2022 (aged 80) Vienna |
| Genres | Jazz, classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Double bass, bass guitar |
| Website | adelhardroidinger |
Adelhard Roidinger (28 November 1941 – 22 April 2022) was an Austrian jazz musician (bass, electronic), composer and computer graphic designer.[1]
Life and Works
Roidinger, who was from a musician family, learned first piano, violin and guitar. When he was 16, he started to play double bass. From 1960 to 1967, he studied architecture at the
University of Music and Performing Arts
in this city.
Since 1969, Roidinger has played double bass with
Yosuke Yamashita, George Russell, Maria João, Anthony Braxton, Tone Janša and Melanie Bong. After additional education at IRCAM
in Paris, his activity field of music reaches to performances with symphony orchestras and solo concerts with computer and visual components.
After working as a docent for Cybernetic Designing (
Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance in Linz. He was the director of its jazz department since 1988 and moreover since 1994 the director of the Music and Media Technology department of the same university. He wrote lessons for double bass (1980) and bass guitar (1981) as well as a detailed publication about jazz improvisation and pentatonic scale
(1984).
Awards and honours
In 1988, he was awarded Ernst Koref Composition Prize for his computer composition Siamesic Sinfonia.[2]
References
- ^ "Adelhard Roidinger | Discography | Discogs". Discogs.
- ^ Jury-Mitglied Wolfgang Winkler, zit. nach Kunzler, Jazz-Lexikon.
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