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Gerhard Gruber
composer for silent movies, theatre and film music
Gerhard Gruber is an Austrian composer and piano player. As accompanist for silent movies he has become the leading authority in Austria since 1988.
He has performed for about 450 different films (Washington-Los Angeles/ USA 2011, Delhi-Pune-Goa/ India 2011, Tokyo 2006/ 2007/ 2008, Hobart/ Australia 2007-09, Rotorua/ New Zealand 2008, Padova, Motovun Film Festival 2007, Cineconcerts Bordeaux 2005, Filmfestival Pisek/CZ 2009/11, Filmfestival Uherske Hradiste 2009/11, Viennale 1999-2004, Munich, Hamburg, Diagonale).
Since 1983 Gerhard Gruber is working and performing as a composer and musician for theatre.
Awards: 2006: "Nestroypreis", 2008: "Landeskulturpreis Upper Austria"
As a basic principle he appreciates improvisation for his work, which he regards as best way of a direct and always new dialogue between the events on the screen, the music and the audience.
So no performance resembles the others. Gerhard Gruber likes it to be enticed by the films again and again and to pass on these feelings to the audience.
Cit.: ´For me the feeling of being amidst the events of a film story has been undescribable exciting from the first moment and is unchanged until today. This guarantees the liveliness and vibrancy of each performance.
It is always the unity of film, music and audience. And thus each presentation is able to be a special experience.`
EVENTS
FILM & TELEVISION INSTITUTE OF INDIA, Pune 23.2.12 - NATIONAL FILM ARCHIVE OF INDIA, Pune 25.2.12
POONA MUSIC SOCIETY, Pune 27.2.12 - NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Mumbai 29.2.12
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Film & Television Institute of India, Pune * National Film Archive of India, Pune
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National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai
KULTURFORUM WASHINGTON USA - "Austrian Short Silent Movie Comedies" 16.November 2011,
"Moon of Israel" 18.November 2011
VILLA AURORA LOS ANGELES USA - "Moon of Israel" 22.November 2011
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performance in Washington DC (Foto: Eva Krallinger) * playing the organ of Lion Feuchtwanger, Los Angeles
meeting Hollywood director Ivan Passer and his wife Anna at the Pisek Film Festival 2011
"Those who listen to Gerhard Gruber play the piano can once again trust their own breath." -
Author Ilse Aichinger
"Silent movie music in the sense Grubers is neither an exaggeration of the film, nor the “digestible making” of an “old-fashionable” artifact, neither a vanity nor another simplification of the existing work. It is always a partnership suggestion; in a partnership, which becomes never boring as it is guaranteed. An “open relationship” including intimate bond of trust."
Alexander Horwath, director of the Austrian Filmmuseum
Film score "Cafe Elektric":
"Silent film accompanist Gerhard Gruber provides an excellent piano score on the Austrian DVD edition."
(imdb.com)