Michael Radanovics (born 19 March 1958) is an Austrian violinist (jazz and classic) and composer.
Born in Steyr, Radanovics passed his school-leaving examination in 1976. He studied violin with Michael Frischenschlager from 1977 to 1985 and music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1978 to 1981. [1] He studied jazz theory from 1981 to 1985 with Karl Heinz Czadek at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. [1]
From 1982 to 1985 he was a member of the jazz band Augmented Nine, and from 1983 to 1988 of the symphony orchestra of the Volksoper Wien. [1] Since 1988 he has played in the Radio-Symphony Orchestra Wien. [1] In 1987 he co-founded the Motus Quartet, playing as primarius until 2000. [2] The string quartet continued to belong to Tscho Theissing (violin), Franz Bayer (viola) and Michael Dallinger (cello). [3] Radanovics composed and arranged jazz and improvised music for the instrumentation. Concert tours have taken him through Europe, America and Asia. [1]
Radanovics has published educational literature with Universal Edition since 1990. Since 2000 he has been the editor of a songbook by Roland Neuwirth at the Musikverlag Doblinger, in whose New Folk Music group Extremschrammeln he played since 1998. In 2003 he founded the duo Zimt & Zauber with the singer Petra Hartl. [4]
Since 1996, Radanovics has been a member of the Swiss composers group Groupe Lacroix. [5]
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