Excited to have been commissioned with writing a Duo for outstanding musicians Andreas Hofmeir (tuba) and Benjamin Schmid (violin), which will be published on their upcoming album. It features many crazy tubatechniques as well as highly contrapuntal and virtuos passages… Can’t wait to hear the guys play it…
I am very happy to announce that the debut album of my group strings&bass was released 2 weeks ago by the viennese classic label GRAMOLA. The CD features many of my compositions and arrangements from the years 2013-2015, including the first official recording of VALENTINAIR (2015, premiered in the original version for orchestra and […]
Excited to announce that there will be a collaboration with the fantastic Paweł Kaczmarczyk Audiofeeling Trio (PL) at the Inntöne Jazz Festival 2017. We play a 60min show including compositions by Willeitner, Kaczmarczyk, Seifert and more… Looking forward to more in the future! http://www.inntoene.com/inntoene-jazzfestival/programm-2017/florian-willeitner-pawel-kaczmarczyk-audiofelling-trio/
The New Piano Trio is very happy to join Irmengard von Hagke’s Musicmanagement in Munich. All booking issues will be managed by Irmengard from now on. Looking forward to have a powerful partner on our side now. http://www.irmengardvonhagke.com/ Booking Contact: Irmengard von Hagke Musikmanagement +49 89 358 579 38 +49 179 75 05 348 info@irmengardvonhagke.com
The NP3 has been on the road for concerts in Germany and Switzerland. Top Highlights were concerts in Zürich, Bonn and two sold out concerts in Munich and at the European Youth Festival 2016, Passau. Next Concert of NP3 on Dez 15th at the Schwarzberg Club Vienna within the next C:Nights Vienna.
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2016/08/news-mateusz-smoczynski-wins-zbigniew.html London Jazz News wrote in its article from august 29 about Florian: „Florian Willeitner is an intensely lyrical performer who premiered two works, his own piece based on a Seifert composition entitled Thinking about the making of Love in the Garden. A dreamlike atmosphere was apparent after just a few plucked notes and some […]
Florian Willeitner has won the 2nd prize ex aequo at the International Zbigniew Seifert Competition 2016, which is one of the biggest gatherings of jazz strings players and composers of the world. Here the official statement of Florian on facebook: —— I am incredibly happy and honored to have won the 2nd prize of the […]
It’s official: we’re closing Classical:NEXT 2016 on May 28th in Rotterdam. Who’s going to be there? 🙂 http://www.classicalnext.com/program/closing Here is the official text taken from the Classical:NEXT Website: “ New Piano Trio hold a unique distinction among chamber groups by performing only original repertoire. Florian Willeitner, the group’s violinist, doubles as an in-house composer and […]
Florian will hit the stage at numerous venues in April and Mai, including concerts with the New Piano Trio in Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands, with austrian jazzstar Georg Breinschmid, or as a chamber musician at the great Podium Festival Esslingen. Dates coming soon!
We were delighted to play a fantastic concert with Strings&Bass in the beautiful Teatro Verdi, Trieste. We had a fantastic, very traditional audience, which in the end was as happy as we were. Thank you to the Societá dei Concerti! Foto Credits @ Marino Sterle, Societá dei Concerti Trieste