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Biographical Data
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Date of Birth:
13.04.1970 in Munich
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Nationality
Austria
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Biography:
Andreas Paolo Perger is born as the son of an austrian-italian father
and a german-polish mother into a musicians and artists family of
european migration backround. He wears the eight-rayed star from the
Val di Non. His munich grandfather was a poet of Student Resistance
against National Socialism. After anti-authoritarian pedagogics, piano
lessons, and free painting he gets guitar lessons at seven. After the
early loss of the parents studies of the guitar, improvisation, and
composition in USA, Germany, Italy, and Austria. After a work in
residence in New York he becomes "Newcomer of the Year" from the
Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1997, affiliated by the release of an 11 CD
Series through Fenn Music/ Hamburg. Press and specialist press
celebrates his multiperspective sound language. Concert tours and
project fundings follow. Studiowork for ARD, ORF, and EMI Records.
Soundtracks for art videos. In collaboration with Stevens Custom
Guitars and Huber Amps, he developes the 5.1 Surround Guitar, which
1999 gets introduced at the Music Fair in Frankfurt. The first concert
with the 5.1 Surround Guitar occures in the Tube/ Munich and on BR2
Radio in 2002. Compositions with New Media and the Internet Series
arise. World premier of "o record - Concert for 5.1 Surround Guitar" in
the ORF Long Night of Museums 2007 for Tonspur_live at the
Museumsquartier/ Vienna. 2008 premiere at Institut Intermédií/ Prague.
2009 premieres at the Artothek/ Munich, Freitagsmusik/ Hamburg, and the
Electric Eclectics Festival/ Meaford, Canada. Phonomontage "Österreich
oond dee Velt in 1938"/ Lindo Records, a memorial in sound on cultural
integrity and humanity. Lives and works between Munich, Vienna, Berlin,
and Bolzano.
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Education, Instrument(s) |
Education:
- Studies of the guitar, improvisation and composition a.o. at Berklee College of Music/ Boston and Richard Strauss Conservatory/ Munich with Barbara Probst-Polasek
- Master classes with Joe Pass, Mike Stern, John Scofield, John McLaughlin, Evan Parker, Frederic Rzewski, Wolfgang Stryi/ Ensemble Modern
- Free studies of music and arts
- Important encounters
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Intrument(s):
concert guitar, electric guitar, electronics, video, 5.1 surround guitar
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Description of Style |
The music of Andreas Paolo Perger is a contemporary pluralistic position. Its abstract narration is an atmospheric texture from reinstrumentalization of electronic sounds, transitions from tone to noise, and hand symbols. The sculptural aspect of sound emphasizes the obviously accepted and accentuates the between the strings played.
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Press Reviews |
20011000:
A discovery - once again a guitar player, a real guitarero melting with his instrument, so that the listener does not know if he the guitar - or the guitar plays him. Very individual, very original and ver visionary - full of atmospheric mood. A real guitarero, who has no other choice than playing.
Walliser Bote (Jean-Pierre D'Alpaos)
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20010500:
Hearty Pop in a new format [...] Perger, awarded and celebrated classical player, jazzer, improviser and crossover-specialist is going this new way with a special guitar combining classical and electronic
Münchner Merkur (Freia Oliv)
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20000500:
Against that, in front of a lot more listeners, the highly reputed guitarist Andreas Paolo Perger turned out to be a stylistical black crosser with own works on his poppy-green acoustic-electric instrument, not fitting in any kind of current drawers
Neue Ruhr Zeitung (Klaus Albrecht)
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19980100:
Perger's success is by no means coincidental; he manages to balance on the narrow tightrope between jazz and classic. He relies on the one hand on set compositions, but also creates his own sound language using improvisation and his own compositions.
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Helmut Mauró)
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19970800:
"For me," he explains his mammoth project, "it is an obligation to know and learn to understand the various styles living within the guitar, to work with them and pursue them up to a certain point and, when I feel I have learned enough about them, to let them go again. These CDs are a form of pool, a rucksack with everything I have at the moment and what I have focused on."
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Ralf Dombrowski)
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19960500:
A master on six strings and in all styles.
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Wolfgang Farkas)
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