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Skorupa 5 "Sonic Feast"
Austria, Germany, Estonia
Leonhard Skorupa - reeds
Silke Eberhard - reeds
Kirke Karja - piano, keys
Robert Landfermann - bass
Leif Berger - drums
Commission from Jazzfestival Saalfelden for Leonhard Skorupa
The opening concert on the Mainstage this year belongs to Leonhard Skorupa. The Viennese musician, celebrated by Ö1 as one of the "young rebels of Austrian jazz," loves to lead both his audience and his fellow musicians down unexpected creative paths. "A trickster who enjoys surprising his top-class instrumentalists and the audience with unpredictable scores and soundscapes" (hr2). Skorupa, who plays tenor saxophone and various clarinets, is not only the head of the stage band at Porgy & Bess, but also shakes up the music scene with projects such as the Sketchbook Orchestra, Ensemble Kuhle Wampe, and the surf-rock-folk-jazz sextet AHL6. The latter has already been heard at the "3 Days of Jazz" 2025 in Saalfelden Leogang—an acoustic preview of what awaits us.
Leonhard Skorupa - reeds
Silke Eberhard - reeds
Kirke Karja - piano, keys
Robert Landfermann - bass
Leif Berger - drums
Commission from Jazzfestival Saalfelden for Leonhard Skorupa
The opening concert on the Mainstage this year belongs to Leonhard Skorupa. The Viennese musician, celebrated by Ö1 as one of the "young rebels of Austrian jazz," loves to lead both his audience and his fellow musicians down unexpected creative paths. "A trickster who enjoys surprising his top-class instrumentalists and the audience with unpredictable scores and soundscapes" (hr2). Skorupa, who plays tenor saxophone and various clarinets, is not only the head of the stage band at Porgy & Bess, but also shakes up the music scene with projects such as the Sketchbook Orchestra, Ensemble Kuhle Wampe, and the surf-rock-folk-jazz sextet AHL6. The latter has already been heard at the "3 Days of Jazz" 2025 in Saalfelden Leogang—an acoustic preview of what awaits us.