page_title: Andreas Paolo Perger
section_title: Concert guitar, concert improvisation, composition
hierarchical_section_title: Andreas Paolo Perger / Concert guitar, concert improvisation, composition
caption_attribution_description: English: The photo shows Andreas Paolo Perger playing "Gravur/ Gravure - improvised compositions" live at Zionskirche Berlin on a Langenbacher concert guitar.
context_page_description: Andreas Paolo Perger is a contemporary Austrian guitarist, improviser, and composer of German-Polish and Austrian-Italian descent. His music, autobiographical in nature, draws from variety of traditional and contemporary influences, such as contemporary jazz, new music, improvised music, and electronic music. Perger uses a variable and open concept of guitar playing, improvising, and composing. He plays the 5.1 Surround Guitar and the classical concert guitar.
context_section_description: The classical concert guitar has always fascinated Perger. Because of its specialization as a concert instrument for the interpretation of compositions, it is a challenge for concert improvisation. Beside his interpretations of classical music and his own compositions for concert guitar he continuously followed the idea of getting a more open and less categorized musical experience than usually associated with the traditional instrument. Therefore, he integrated improvisation into his music and playing technique of the interpretation-oriented instrument and developed a personal sound vocabulary. A last step in this process was the adaption of his module-based improvising and composing method completed on the 5.1 surround guitar.
  "Gravure/Gravure", improvised compositions for concert guitar are performed regularly weekly at the "Zionskirche" Berlin since July 2014. The outstanding sound of the room from August Orth supports the interactive aspect of the music. During the concerts of several hours in length always new situationally inspired composition variants develop on the base of the over the time slowly changing source material. The compositions originating from the concert improvisations reflect the instrument in a pluralistic multilayered way and enfold a wide dynamic and tonal pulse in the acoustics of the church. On 2017.08.10 the berlin daily newspaper B.Z. wrote in the category Classical: „The austrian concert guitarist Andreas Paolo Perger proves his great talent for improvisation.“ A concert-excerpt is to be heard in the movie "Beyond Words" by Urszula Antoniak. The compositions are published by the classical music publishing house Edition Margaux.
caption: Andreas Paolo Perger playing "Gravur/Gravure" at Zionskirche Berlin, 2014-07-31.
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