Hope you all are doing well, and everybody had a great summer. The new concert season is starting, and I am very excited about the beginning of my sabbatical year from teaching.
I just spent August and September in Dakar/Senegal to learn about West African Culture, take lessons on the Kora and work with great musicians like the Kora Virtuoso Noumouncounda and his daughter Aby. There will be more stories coming from Senegal and my next musical adventures over the year. In the meantime, a lot of new things happened.
There are 3 new CDs out or coming out:
Sirius Quartet had a new release with Parma records Playing on the Edge 3.
Berta Epple’s show “Das Ganze Jahr Geöffnet” is coming on CD on March 8, 2024. Till then we will release a single each month on all the streaming platforms and you can buy the physical copy after our concerts.
Munich Composers Collective’s first CD called Digital Code is coming out at the end of October and will be celebrated with a release concert at one of Europe’s best clubs, the Unterfahrt in Munich on October 30th at 8:30pm. MCC was also awarded with the München Stipendium 2023 (Munich scholarship 2023).
After I did a photo session with the great photographer Beate Armbruster, she was asked by an international magazine if they could use her photos of me. So I ended up in Peng Magazine with these pictures.
Right now there are some of my new piano pieces being released. 3 of 7 are out already on all the streaming platforms each in it’s original form as well as in a remix.
These are the compositions:
Friday, October 13 and Saturday, October 14, 2023
Greenwich House Music School, New York City
Doors at 6:30pm each night, music at 7 SHARP!
It’s hard to believe that this is the 8th year of the festival, and this year we are honored to have officially partnered with Greenwich House Music School (of which we are an ensemble-in-residence this year) which has been our favorite venue to host the festival over the years.
This year’s line-up features some incredible artists that we can’t wait for you to check out including the Hindustani cello stylings of Jake Charkey, the endlessly imaginitive improvisations of Treesearch, bassoonist extrordinaire Sara Schoenbeck and her duo with Korean gayageum virtuoso DoYeon Kim, powerhouse pianist Matthew Shipp, the otherworldly sounds of Shoko Nagai’s TOKALA and Sirius Quartet.
We’re anticipating full houses both nights so please get your tickets in advance and we hope to see you there!
These 14 beautiful preludes written for piano are playable by an intermediately skilled pianist and can be improvised over with the provided chord changes. Players can add intros and outros as they like and are free to include their own ideas.
Originating from the title, “Stories from the New York Lockdown,” Gregor started this project in 2020 not knowing that it would become an entire collection of compositions for solo piano, recorded and released on one of his favorite labels in Munich, Solo Musica. more
Hard copies of the new album can be ordered directly with me by sending an e-mail to: ghuebner@me.com – 15 US$ or Euros + shipping
Inquire about licensing these compositions for VIDEOS or FILMS.
NEW ALBUMS
Berta Epple: Das Ganze Jahr Geöffnet
Berta Epple’s show “Das Ganze Jahr Geöffnet” is coming on CD on March 8, 2024. Till then we will release a single each month on all the streaming platforms and you can buy the physical copy after our concerts. more
Munich Composers Collective “Digital Code”
Munich Composers Collective’s first CD called Digital Code is coming out at the end of October and will be celebrated with a release concert at one of Europe’s best clubs, the Unterfahrt in Munich on October 30th at 8:30pm. MCC was also awarded with the München Stipendium 2023 (Munich scholarship 2023).