„The Other Way Around“ - Premiere & „The Brahms Song Book“ - Album Release I woke up, already feeling very excited, I think it has something to do with my stage fright : ) and I am always extra nervous when we play in Vienna. For the first time we played in a different venue, not at our beloved Porgy & Bess, but this time in the charming theatre at Theresianumgasse called Theater Akzent. Thank you to Wolfgang Sturm for inviting us and letting us include our Brahms Song Book s

On my way to the airport I met my favourite tap dancer from Vienna – the one and only Sabine Hasicka : ) - if you ever think about starting to tap – this is where you need to go: http://www.sabinehasicka.com ! At U3 Neubaugasse mathias hopped on the train and we had a few stops together with Sabine to catch up. She told us that she had played at Nikolaisaal/Foyer before – our venue for our duoconcert tonight – and that she really liked it! So mathias and I were very excited t

I got to Oliver‘s home in Baden two days before our New Year Concert in Davos, so that Oliver and I would have enough time for rehearsals, playing table tennis and the Beatles : ). On the last day of the year we had a good and intense run-through in the morning and then we went straight to Davos, which gave us enough time to listen to the „Beatlothek“ - a radio show of the SRF in which Oli was a guest host about his favourite band in the world: The Beatles . I knew that Oli w

Before we started our journey to Upper Austria, we had a short but good rehearsal at mathias‘ place and decided to mix our Schumann with some of our fresh Brahms : ) – since we‘re gonna record „The Brahms Song Book“ in one week!!! About a year ago I met Peter Guschelbauer, the organizer of the Stiwa Jazzforum, the Jazzfestival Steyr and many, many concerts more around and in the Upper Austrian hills : ). He had heard us live at the Porgy and after we met for coffee to talk th

I was very excited to play our freshly-premiered „Brahms Song Book“ on the same stage where we started our journey with „gone too far“ a couple of years ago. And several people (including my mum : ) ) raised their hands when I asked, if there was someone in the room who had also been to our very first concert : )!!! We had a relaxed sound check in the late afternoon thanks to – as always – our master of sound Mr T – Thomas Egger! I was already very nervous but when the „F-Kla

Here we go : ) - Part III of our „Kunstlied“ - trilogy - our "Brahms Song Book"– we‘ve been working on it intensively for quite a while! mathias started arranging it right after our Three-Days - Porgy Session last December, and a couple of weeks later he finished the arrangements. Johannes Brahms was a close friend of Robert Schumann, but his great love was Clara Schumann. So after our "Schumann Song Book" our next step was very clear – it led us straight to Brahms. And here

We all met in the early afternoon in Wildegg. Our venue was the castle up up on the hill - oh yesss and the weather was great so we could play open air surrounded by the most incredible view and many many animals : ). I arrived from the Villa Ruffieux, where I‘m doing my artist residency in Sierre right now. It was a lovely three hour trip by car with a wonderful view of beautiful Lac Leman, passing Vevey, where Chaplin lived : ) and Montreux, where the famous Jazzfestival t

The Schumann Song Book live at Bucerius Kunstforum. It was my very first time in Hamburg – what a beautiful city with oh! so many bridges, green parks and water!!! mathias and I were very excited to play at Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. We all took the plane at 9:00 from Vienna and just a little while later we arrived at Hamburg Airport, where Linnea Rüter picked us up and was our personal chauffeuse throughout our stay – thank you!This brings me straight to the incredib

Das folgende Gedicht von Eugen Gomringer an der Mauer der Alice-Salomon-Hochschule in Berlin wird wegen Sexismusvorwürfen entfernt. Deshalb haben wir dieses Schlüsselwerk der Konkreten Poesie gestern Nachmittag vertont - "Avenues & Flowers"! "Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit." G.Klimt ​Alleen Alleen und Blumen Blumen Blumen und Frauen Alleen Alleen und Frauen Alleen und Blumen und Frauen und ein Bewunderer #Gomringer #KonkretePoesie #mathiasrüegg #LiaPale

The first of November is a special public holiday in Austria called “Allerheiligen“ followed by „Allerseelen“ on the second of November. It is a time spent with family remembering the ones who are not with us anymore. Playing the songs of Schuberts Winterreise during this time makes a lot of sense and we had the chance to do so at „Oval“ in Salzburg. Thank you to wonderful Miss Margret Stronegger for inviting us to play at this beautiful venue. This time with us Mister Mario