Johannes Prischl

Musical Biography

Born 1962 in Wels/Austria, currently living in Vienna.
Music studies at Bruckner-Conservatory Linz (Austria), MOZARTEUM Salzburg and at BERKLEE College of Music in Boston/USA (diploma in "Jazz Composition and Arrangement")
Active in both Jazz and "contemporary classical music" as a composer and performer (Instruments: flute, saxophone, wind synthesizer, live electronics)
Teaching at MOZARTEUM music academy in Salzburg/Austria since 1988
Festival and concert performances in Austria, Germany, USA, Belgium, Finnland (Pori Jazz Festival 1991), Poland, India (Jazz Yatra 1988) and Panama
Music for films, projects combining literature & music, contemporary dance & music, photography & music
Compositions for different chamber music instrumentations, symphonic wind orchestra, electro-acoustic projects, Jazz Quartett and Jazz Bigband.
Premier performances of compositions in Vienna, Paris ("Que Sovos" ), Boston ("Story Number One"), Istanbul/Turkey ("Music for Ears No.2" for woodwind quintet), Hamburg/Germany ("Music for Ears No. 3" for saxophone quartet at the festival "5. Hamburger Begegnung im Zeichen zeitgenössischer Musik") and Brno/Czechia ("Music for Ears No. 4" for symphonic wind orchestra)
Selected discography including some listening examples: Click here!