The New Music Ensemble of the Filum Music School won the award for best interpretation of a new work composed for the German Youth Music awards. This is my composition called “In The News”. I am very proud and honored.
“Escape from Reality” composed by Gregor Huebner and performed by Orthrus: Fung Chern Hwei & Gregor Huebner, violins.
This composition was originally written for a German Violin Duo but somehow never got performed at that time. Fung Chern Hwei and I decided to record Escape from Reality now because its title fits our current situation pretty well. We’re all trying to find ways to deal with this unprecedented reality, and thoughts about escaping our own situations are prominent.
This composition features various extended techniques from the string instruments repertoire of all different styles. Escape from Reality is a constant switch from classical moods into jazz rhythms and improvisations. It is a defense action piece, using fantasy to avoid the problems and conflicts of our respective situations at the moment.
So escape with us! –G.H.
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Speedwell Live welcomes GREGOR HUEBNER, a Grammy Nominated Composer & Violinist and winner of the Jazz “Grand Prize” New World Composers Competition of the New York Philharmonics 2017. Gregor will be talking with Maine writer Bill Roorbach and sharing musical notes and insights. Grab a drink of choice and get transported away from COVID-19 into Huebner’s beautiful world of sound. The real-time conversation takes place on Sunday, May 3, 2020 at 5pm ET.
Click HERE to receive the Zoom link and password by email on the day of event.
Celebrated by audiences and critics alike for his visionary work across genres, Gregor’s realm of contributions and achievements are unmatched and have gained him an international reputation and following.
The Wall Street Journal calls it “impassioned and dreamy.” And that is describing just one album of many and many compositions that integrate improvisation, experimental notation, traditional counterpoint, pop song structures, post-tonal gestures and innovative performance techniques within formal compositional frameworks.
Grammy Nominated Composer & Violinist and “Grand Prize” winner New World Composers Competition of the New York Philharmonics 2017
Gregor Huebner is an award-winning composer and violinist, celebrated by audiences and critics alike for his visionary work across genres. His music has been described by The New York City Jazz Record as “challenging and vivid… seamlessly incorporat[ing] chamber elements with Avant Garde Jazz.” Huebner’s recent El Violin Latino, an album exploring the role of the violin in traditional Latin American music, was praised by The Wall Street Journalas “by turns sexy and sly, impassioned and dreamy, his collection of well-known tunes, unexpected arrangements and original compositions brings together far-flung members of the fiddle diaspora.”
Gregor’s compositions integrate improvisation, experimental notation, traditional counterpoint, pop song structures, post-tonal gestures and innovative performance techniques within formal compositional frameworks. Recent commissions include “Six Songs of Innocence,” a lyrical setting of poems by William Blake premiered by Sirius Quartet an acclaimed contemporary string ensemble of which he is a long-time member. The quartet was praised by The New York Times for their “versatility and flair with lively improvisations.” His collaborations with Richie Beirach and George Mraz have yielded three critically acclaimed albums, including the Latin Grammy-nominated Round About Federico Mompou. Gregor was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and is based in Harlem in New York City.
On Thursday, April 23, 2020 watch Berta Epple on SWR 1 TV show Kabarett, Comedy und Kleinkunst at 20-24:00.
Berta Epple will be streaming from home. Watch it here.
SWR1 Küchenkabarett Die Rente ist sicher … Berta Epple
Sie haben im Laufe ihrer über 30-jährigen Bühnenlaufbahn schon alles erlebt. Im Blitzlichtgewitter der Fotografen und mobilen Radargeräten gehen sie unverdrossen ihren Weg.
Nach Auftritten auf Weltausstellungen, in Pommesbuden, Philharmonien und U-Bahnschächten, stellen die drei Epples mit Verwunderung fest, dass sie immer noch keine Millionäre sind. Im Gegenteil! Der Blick auf den Rentenbescheid bestätigt die schlimmsten Befürchtungen.
Um der drohenden Altersarmut zu entfliehen treibt es sie geradewegs ins Spielcasino. Hier glauben sie, das nötige Kapital für die Finanzierung ihrer dritten Zähne auftreiben zu können. Weil sie allerdings noch nicht eimal den Unterschied zwischen Roulette und Omelett kennen und Black Jack gerne mal mit Jack Daniels verwechseln, setzen sie alles auf eine Karte! Spielen, spielen, spielen!
Als wahre Kunstler an ihren Instrumenten (Piano, Geige, Kontrabass) bleibt für Bobbi Fischer, Gregor und Veit Hübner sowieso nur die MUSIK. Das Trio zieht dabei weite Kreise, was die musikalischen Stilrichtungen (Latin Music, Jazz, Weltmusik, Chanson) angeht und geht in seinen Liedern in die Tiefe der allzu oft verdrangten Gedanken und Emotionen.
Es ist nicht zu ändern: die 3 Epples sind ihrer Spielsucht hoffnungslos verfallen!
