Viktor Gernot - A Night Before Christmas Piano: Prof. Aaron Wonesch A song evening on the occasion of the Advent season with Christmas songs and Advent stories and satires. Designed, compiled, and sung by the Austrian grandmaster of Christmas concerts, Viktor Gernot. Accompanied on piano by his friend and long-time musical partner, the brilliant master of all 88 keys, Prof. Aaron Wonesch.
Since the early 1990s, Viktor Gernot has been playing swinging Advent concerts. Starting from the small club a la Roter Engel, through the truly legendary series of performances in all federal states, in the Kabarett Simpl and later in Casanova Wien, up to the Ronacher Wien, or even the Stadthallen in Graz and Vienna. Previously with Viktor Gernot's Best Friends, his long-standing band. Always with distinctive, original arrangements of the exclusive song selection from the Great American Christmas Songbook, blended with selected poems and stories, delivered in the famous tone of the protagonist. Often copied, never reached.
In all these projects, Aaron as a pianist was indispensable. And so, the two come together in December 2026 to interpret the swinging, jazzy, and sometimes even balladic songs together. The enthusiasm and love with which Viktor Gernot heard White Christmas for the first time as a child in the Hollywood film ‘Holiday Inn’ is the foundation of this concert night. His first LP under the Christmas tree was once Bing Crosby's ‘White Christmas’. In all the decades since, the enthusiasm has developed into true expertise through the hundreds of concerts, the study of Christmas literature, both literary and musical.
A Night Before Christmas. Let Viktor Gernot and Aaron Wonesch take you away and enchant you. And Keep On Swingin‘!