About Me
Gerald F. Preinfalk (1971) hails from Freistadt in Upper Austria. His musical career began at the age of nine, and became a calling in 1990 with his studies at the University of Music in Vienna. Jazz and classical French saxophone were the areas that in 1993 earned him a scholarship to the Berklee School of Music in Boston for jazz, and led him in 1998 to Paris for classical saxophone. Since 2000 he has been a member of Klangforum Wien, one of today..s most renowned ensembles for contemporary music. Concert tours have led him to Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, England, Germany, and New York.Time and again he has had guest engagements with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, and with new music ensembles in Vienna and vicinity (including Die Reihe Wien and Ensemble 21. Jhdt.)Preinfalk has appeared with jazz ensembles such as the Vienna Art Orchestra, the Upper Austrian Jazzorchestra, the big band Nouvelle Cousine, the Jazz Big Band Graz, and C. Muthspiels Ensemble Motley Mothertongue, and has played with various bands such as Duckbilled Platypus with Martin Siewert, Third Movement with Martin Koller, BPM with Terry Bozzio, Saxofour with Wolfgang Puschnig, the Flip Philipp ..et, the Robert Bachner Big Band, or musicians such as Roberto Rodriguez (NYC), Peter Madsen, Elliot Sharp, Wolfgang Muthspiel, George Garzone, Django Bates, Reggie Washington, Rodney Holmes, Will Calhoun, Jamey Haddad, Wayne Horwitz, Don Byron, as well as in the area of pop music with Maria Bill and Willi Resetarits. Theatre music as a sideman at the Burgtheater, the Theater an der Wien, and Volkstheater round off the field of activities on improvisational side. As a composer Gerald F. Preinfalk primarily writes for smaller formations. He has composed works for quartet with violin, saxophon, accordion, and bass (Tangogo) and clarinet quartet, choral works, for trio clarinet, piano, and bass (Giuffre Zone), for duo saxophone and accordion, or pieces for saxophone solo and tape.In 2001 he was awarded the the Hans Koller Prize in the category "Newcomer of the year" for Jazz, and in 2003 received a comission, together with the director Werner Heinrichmöller, for the concluding gala "Ringelreigen" of the Tyrolean Festival.2005 Bernhard Lang wrote for him and the „Wiener Symphoniker“ the 40-minute solopiece "DW14" for Saxophone, Jazzband and Orchestra...ModMySpace Profile Customizer
