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Harald Peterstorfer

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About Me

He was learning music since he was 3 years old by himself...later he studied music - without having a teacher before - by international musicians like Peter o´Mara and workshops with Ralph Towner, Afrain Toro, Tuck Andress, Billy Heart, Ron Mc Clure, Steve Coleman and many others.Today he has references like John Doan, Wolfgang Puschnig, Wayne Darling, Adelhard Roidinger, Heinrich von Kalnein, Alan Praskin, Karl Heinz Miklin, Pawan Kumar, Aija-Riitta Holopainen and many more in ensembles like OutOfBlueWorldEdition www.outofblue.at - "One of the most original European bands on the jazz scene" Jazzfestival Cheltenham/ England & NEW the Acoustic Guitarduo Wolfgang Sambs & H. Peterstorfer - other ensembles please look to www.mdv-world.com.His music is coming out of jazz/world/shamanistic/classical/celtic & improvised music...- Amy White - multiinstrumentalist & owner of many Awards & Indie Award talking about his music "and your music is WONDERful! Ethereal, celestial, so richly layered and inviting..."

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Member Since: 5/22/2006
Band Website: haraldpeterstorfer.com
Band Members: You can get music from Harald Peterstorfer also at www.iTunes.com (Artist Harald Peterstorfer or Out of blue)This time H.P. plays solo, and much in duo with Aija-Riita Holopainen/Finland - RIJA (www.myspace.com/riasworld), also with Ali Angerer Tuba/Dulcimer, Rainer Deixler drums, Volkhard Iglseder piano and many others...Music emotions pictures

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Influences: His music is influenced in the early years by the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Mike Oldfield and later Ralph Towner, Jan Garbarek, John Abercrombie, Pat Metheny - the label ECM - or Windham Hill, Irish music, Jose Peixoto, Dusan Bogdanovic, Carlo Domeniconi, Madredeus, Peter Kater, Peter Gabriel, Zakir Hussain and many others; people like Patrick Süsskind, Paulo Coelho, Khalil Gibran... - ...the slow waves of a sea and the warm soft light of a candle...
Sounds Like: ...the people say Harald Peterstorfer...Press:He is a musical poet who paints with sound, impressive through his sensitve performance and his mature compositions. Expansive lyrical areas of sound, meditative interjections, elements from jazz, classical and worldmusic give his compositions a special character. His music, supported by harmonic rhythm often wells up a melancholic feeling as it eminates into space... His music is strong and fragile at once. A original and highly intensive world full of raw beauty made up of vibrant melodic phrases, harmonically lively rhythms , as well as moments of profound quietness...
Record Label: UNIVERSAL MUSIC, ATS, PAO & MDV Records
Type of Label: None