His Innône festival “Jazz on the farm” in summer is legendary. During Pentecost, Paul Zauner also invites for the first time to the “Keyboard Festival” at his farm in Diersbach in the Innviertel region. The idea came about “without much thought, purely intuitively,” says the trombonist in an OÖN interview. “A piano was part of many of my beautiful musical festival memories. The special sound in the barn made it such a wonderful experience. Some visitors also asked me about the sound and the atmosphere. So I thought to myself: If that’s the case for many feel and want, then we’ll do it. It’s not a big concept behind it”.
But Zauner has a feeling, not to say “seventh sense”, for experiences of a special kind, which he shares with visitors to his Buchmannhof. The program invites you to meet young and young-at-heart masters: “There is a balance between very young, very creative pianists – like Fergus McCreadie, Elias Stemeseder, Georg Vogel or Deschanel Gordon from England -, old masters like Enrico Pieranunzi and Kirk Lightsey and established ones like Yaron Herman”, who is currently giving his only concert in Austria with a solo in Diersbach.
Diersbach as a career springboard
The Israeli pianist, based in France, was one of the talents Paul Zauner paved the way to more than a decade ago. “He gave his first big concert in his life at the Inntones Festival. That was actually the beginning of his career. He came and took everyone with him.” The concert was recorded and broadcast in Europe, Canada, America and Japan. “As a result, he was in everything in one fell swoop. Of course, he has continued to develop musically and is a wonderful musician.”
The concert series invites you to “different, fantastic dynamics and tones. Everyone makes the piano sound in their own way,” says Zauner. On the other hand, “a completely different timbre from the emotion” can be experienced with the masters of the vertical keys. “The accordion bar is a very important part of the key festival”, for example with the Italian Alessandro D’Alessandro, “a high-quality button accordion player and great musician who works across genres”, says Zauner, who is also looking forward to Vince Abbracciante with the singer Paola Arnesano and the duo of Otto Lechner and Arnaud Methevier.
From July 22nd to 24th, “Jazz on the Farm” invites you to the spacious meadow. “I like it outside. You can really relax and enjoy the music in the countryside.” Tickets are still available for both festivals, for which the same wish of the initiator applies: “It’s always so important to me that the music is good for the listeners, that they can absorb this energy, which is so necessary in many ways, and to the outside world This good feeling, the togetherness with the musicians, the people – this connection.”
Info: Diersbach, Froschau 4, 0676/90 46 822, jazz@inntoene.com; all information, maps: www.inntoene.com
Source: Nachrichten
