ECCO opening concert / 19.00 / Katedrala Big band orkester RTV Slovenija Sigi Fiegl – conductor Programme: Michel HERR (B): Springboard Jukka LINKOLA (FIN): Blue Dog (II. stavek – Stubborness) Outi TARKIAINEN (FIN): Oglütz Piotr WRABEL (POL): Big Band Concerto (I. stavek) Matjaž MIKULETIČ (SLO): Line Out Niki ILES (UK): Hush Mark LOCKHEART (UK): Rag Helge
ECCO opening concert / 19.00 / Katedrala
Big band orkester RTV Slovenija
Sigi Fiegl – conductor
Programme:
Michel HERR (B): Springboard
Jukka LINKOLA (FIN): Blue Dog (II. stavek – Stubborness)
Outi TARKIAINEN (FIN): Oglütz
Piotr WRABEL (POL): Big Band Concerto (I. stavek)
Matjaž MIKULETIČ (SLO): Line Out
Niki ILES (UK): Hush
Mark LOCKHEART (UK): Rag
Helge SUNDE (N): Denada
Krešimir HERCEG (CRO) arr. R. SUMMERER: No name waltz
Klemen SMOLEJ (SLO): A Piece of Peace
Sigi Feigl (b. 1961 in Leibnitz, Austria) started his musical education in 1977 at the University of Music in Graz. During his studies he founded ‘Big Band Süd’ for which he was also the artistic director. The ensemble held more than 100 concerts with guest soloists such as
Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer, Toots Thielemans or Boško Petrović. Missing an official big string orchestra in Leibnitz, Feigl founded ‘Symphonic Orchestra Leibnitz’ in 1986 for which he was the conductor till 2003. During this time he worked as a music teacher at several institutions, mainly at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz where he served as Vice-Head of the department between between 2008 and 2015.
Feigl has founded several ensembles and cultural projects throughout his career such as ‘Jazz Festival Leibnitz’, ‘Kultur in Leibnitz’ and ‘Jazz Big Band Graz’. In addition to this, approximately 1500 cultural events have been organized by Feigl over the past 25 years and over the years the line-up of ‘Jazz Big Band Graz’ has included some of the most prestigious jazz musicians in Austria such as Fritz Pauer and Wayne Darling.
In addition to playing an important role in the development of jazz in Austria, Feigl has also played an important role for jazz music in Croatia. In 2002, Feigl founded the ‘HGM Jazzorkestar Zagreb’. Feigl served as the orchestra’s artistic director till 2014. The orchestra has performed at over 250 concerts, recorded 5 CDs and given the possibility to over 200 musicians to play with and learn from the best jazz musicians in the world. In addition to this, Feigl founded ‘HGM.A’Band’ (2010), ‘Zagreb Jazz Strings’ (2012) and ‘Zagreb Jazzorkestar’ (2014).
In 2007, Feigl established a local office of ‘Jeunesse Musicale Austria’ in Leibnitz. Five years later, Feigl toured with ‘Jeunesses Musicales Jazz World’, an ensemble established by Jeunesses Musicales International, as their artistic director.
The Slovenian Radio and Television Big Band (Big Band RTV Slovenija) has existed since 1945 and prides itself with being among the oldest orchestras in the world of its kind. Its successes can largely be attributed to Bojan Adamič (1912 – 1995), a conductor and composer who started reassembling the band in the spring of 1945, making its first public appearance at the reopening of the Postojna Cave in June 1945. As early as in the fall of 1945, the orchestra was officially taken under the auspices of Radio Ljubljana. Adamič remained the conductor of the Radio Ljubljana Dance Orchestra (PORL) until the early 1960s.
In 1961, young Jože Privšek (1937-1998), extremely talented piano and vibraphone player, took over the baton. Under Privšek, the Radio Ljubljana Dance Orchestra evolved into a top quality band which not only dominated the scene within ex-Yugoslavia, but received high recognition abroad.
Following Privšek’s retirement in 1992, the orchestra was taken over by Lojze Krajnčan with, among others, Petar Ugrin, Milko Lazar, Emil Spruk, and Tomaž Grintal. The artistic director between 2002 and 2013 was Hugo Sekoranja. In 2013, his role was appointed to four Big band members who act as an artistic council in agreement with the managing director of Music Production Patrik Greblo and artistic coordinator Lenart Krečič.
The band has played with some of the most famous music stars (performers and conductors) in the world such as fourteen times Grammy award winner alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Paquito d’Rivera, Oscar and Grammy winning composer, pianist and arranger Michel Legrand and Grammy nomenees and winners singers Kurt Elling, Patty Austin and Diane Schuur. The band has also performed with some of the world’s most renowned vocal groups such as the New York Voices.
The qualities of our Big Band are its diversity and the ability to fulfil the needs of various radio and television programmes. It has excelled in musical genres as diverse as film, dance, popular and classical music. Jazz, however, is the music Big Band RTV Slovenija plays with the greatest dedication and pleasure.
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Blu.Sine / 22:00 / Komuna
Urška Bajec – vokal
Žiga Četrtič – klaviature
Žiga Kroflič – kitara
Bor Hodžić – bas
Darian Kocmur – bobni
Blu.Sine – colouring the music and playing the colours. Combining the seemingly un-combinable. Coexistence of waves – light, sound, lines drawn by pen and thoughts. A collage of the past and the future, sharing much more than just the line between them. The message of aesthetics and darkness demands attention to reveal its essence; and combining the avant-garde, pop culture and original ideas demands more than apathy and narcissism. Do you dare to hear in colour while the world is turning black-and-white?
Organised by Association of Slovenian Composers and ECSA in collaboration with Kino Šiška.
