Michael Radanovics
Michael Radanovics is an Austrian violinist and composer.Life
Born in Steyr, Radanovics passed his school-leaving examination in 1976. He studied violin with from 1977 to 1985 and music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1978 to 1981. He studied jazz theory from 1981 to 1985 with at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.
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. Since 1988 he has played in the Radio-Symphony Orchestra Wien. In 1987 he co-founded the Motus Quartet, playing as primarius until 2000. The string quartet continued to belong to , Franz Bayer and Michael Dallinger. Radanovics composed and arranged jazz and improvised music for the instrumentation. Concert tours have taken him through Europe, America and Asia.
Radanovics has published educational literature with Universal Edition since 1990. Since 2000 he has been the editor of a songbook by 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.
Since 1996, Radanovics has been a member of the Swiss composers group Groupe Lacroix.Awards
- 1994: 2. Prize at the Leibnitz Art Prize for Jazz Composition
- 1998: 3. Prize at the Franz Joseph Reindl Composition Competition.
- 2003: 3. Prize at the of the city of Klagenfurt.
- 2007: Winner of the "Vinum et Litterae" competition, Krems on the Danube
Publications
- 1990: Jazzy Violin 1
- 1992: Jazzy Violin 2
- 1993: Liederbuch Fuer 2 Geigen
- 1994: Children’s songs
- 1994: Jazzy Cello 1
- 1995: Favorites
- 1998: Folk & Fiddle
- 1999: Riffs & Tunes
Discography
- 1994: Crimson Flames with the Motus Quartett
- 1996: Introversion with , Österreichische Kammersymphoniker, Ernst Theis
- 2003: Groupe Lacroix: 8 Pieces on Paul Klee with the Ensemble Sortisatio
- 2006: Train Songs with the Spring String Quartet
- 2008: Wo der Wind herwaht with Petra Hartl
- 2009: In mir daham with Petra Hartl
- 2011: MondoLine/Du Liebst with Konstantin Wecker
Literature
- Radanovics, Michael. Online-edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Print edition: Volume 4, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005.
- Radanovics, Michael. In Axel Schniederjürgen : Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006,,.
