The day before our concert we met and rehearsed with Hans and Ingrid – we hadn‘t played our Winter Journey for some time and hadn‘t seen each other over the summer. Oh how wonderful it was to meet and play again : )...right after our rehearsal we had our „Listening Party“ of „The Schumann Songbook“, meaning that we all sat down together opened a bottle of wine, beer and/or Prosecco : ) and listened to our whole album all together for the very first time. I enjoyed every momen

We hadn‘t played Schubert's songs for quite a while and to make sure, our Winter Journey was as fresh as it could be, we had a long and intense Schubert rehearsal the day before. With us on Schubert & Müllers journey for the very first time was amazing Mario Rom on trumpet and flugelhorn. mathias and I hopped on the train in the morning and as always, as soon as I‘m on a train, I can‘t help falling asleep...so time flew by and we got out in Klagenfurt to get on a bus to Feldk

We were part of this year‘s „Kultur.Sommer.Semmering“ and I was very much looking forward to playing Schubert‘s Winter Journey within this wonderful festival directed by Florian Krumpöck and Nina Sengstschmid. You know how much mathias loves trains and so as soon as he has the chance to travel by train, that‘s what he does and I kept him company : ). It takes a little bit longer than an hour to get from Vienna to „Semmering“ and while driving through this incredible landscape

Altdorf – Alpentöne Internationales Musikfestival Our flight to Zürich Airport was nice and short...although I am pretty sure that the distance between each row of seats becomes smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller everytime...as we were traveling to mathias’ homeland and he knows the train system by heart we followed his lead from platform to platfrom, from train to train until a bus took us right where we needed to be – in the middle of this beautiful little town cal

With my favourite car in the world, my Saab 9,3, I got mathias and myself to our concert in Hochneukirchen in time. Hans, Ingrid, Fab and our sound engineer for tonight Thomas Egger were already setting up when we got there. mathias took one look at the venue and came running back, all excited because this place blew his mind. It is simply the most beautiful and charming attic in the world. Herbert Figlmüller discovered this place 20 years ago and decided to turn it into this