Trombone Attraction
Collage
Works include compositions by Anton Bruckner, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Hoagy Carmichael, Frédéric Chopin, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Toots Thielemans
Trombone Attraction
Monday, May 19, 2025
7:30 pm, Congress Center Villach,
Gottfried-von-Einem Hall
Stefan Obmann tenor trombone
Christian Poitinger bass trombone
Martin Riener bass and tenor trombone
Raphael Stieger tenor trombone
A glimpse at the moments of life that come together like snapshots to form a colorful collage. Some parts clearly visible, some rather blurry, many enjoyable, some painful. Over the course of life, this collage constantly changes. New snippets always come in, older ones rearrange, gaining or losing importance, being overlaid by other images or fading away completely. How will we continue to work on our collage in the future? What image will ultimately emerge? Will we like it? Will we be satisfied? Happy? Join the four trombonists and their diverse music in taking a look at the collage of life...
Since 2006, the four gentlemen have experienced a lot. Together, they have won several competitions, played hundreds of concerts, traveled to many countries, recorded four and a half CDs and sold them around the world, made money, spent more, spent countless hours on airplanes, delayed trains, and cramped cars, toasted with beer and wine to successes, failures, or just because, consumed an estimated 44,106 cups of espresso, endured professional and personal crises, lived, loved, practiced, rehearsed, laughed, cried, argued, reconciled. And the journey continues...