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fPI / Franz Pillinger "is for me the most creative and talented musician, composer, artist playing the contrabass today." Gary Karr. As a bassplayer fPI performed with the Vienna Staatsopera-Ochestra (Philharmonics), as a solobass with Sandor Veghs "Camerata Academica Salzburg" -Prix de Disques four times running, with Andras Schiff, Radu Lupu, Mischa Maisky, Boris Belkin, Aurele Nicolet , Benny Bailey, Mike Longo , "Beni &Co" winning the Menuhin/Grapelli - award in Paris before he founded his db-quartet "Circus Bassissimus", the later "Franz Pillinger Bassquartet". With the quartet and as a soloist he travelled the world - several times as guest/s at ISB-conventions. Highlitghts concerts in N.Y.s Carnegie Hall as a soloist & with bass quartet. teaching brought him to Brasil, Vilnius, Munich and the USA (Columbia, Iowa, Indianapolis). His Salzburg Musikum-students periodically won 1st prizes at the Prima La Musica -Austrian award. fPI got numerous national & international awards f.e. the ARD-Wettbewerb in 1985, the ISB composition Awards in Avignon and in Dallas. the ISB-magazin called him "champion of this kind of instrumentation" for more then 500 db-quartet arrangements. lately he got comissions from "Bassione Amorosa" & from the "Bavarian Statesopera". 2024 he won the SALK-artsAward with his adaption of Mozarts "Kleine Nachtmusik". |