Adelhard Roidinger (28 November 1941 – 22 April 2022) was an Austrian

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musician (bass,

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), composer and computer

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Life and Works

Roidinger, who was from a musician family, learned first piano, violin and guitar. When he was 16, he started to play double bass. From 1960 to 1967, he studied architecture at the

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and studied simultaneously double bass and jazz composing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in this city. Since 1969, Roidinger has played double bass with

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and

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and afterwards with

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and from 1971 to 1975 in

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s Free Sound. He founded the ''European Jazz Consensus'' with

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and

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. The 'European Jazz Consensus' recorded also the albums 'Four for Slavia' and ''Memory Rise''. Then, the ''International Jazz Consensus'' was formed by him along with Kovačev, Allan Praskin and John D. Thomas. In Austria3, which made the core of his

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album ''Shady side'', he performed with

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and

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. in addition, he worked also with

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, Yosuke Yamashita, George Russell, Maria João,

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, Tone Janša and Melanie Bong. After additional education at

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in Paris, his activity field of music reaches to performances with symphony orchestras and solo concerts with computer and visual components. After working as a docent for Cybernetic Designing (

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since 1967), Roidinger started to teach at

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. He was the director of its jazz department since 1988 and moreover since 1994 the director of the Music and Media Technology department of the same university. He wrote lessons for double bass (1980) and bass guitar (1981) as well as a detailed publication about jazz improvisation and

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(1984).

Awards and honours

In 1988, he was awarded

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Composition Prize for his computer composition ''Siamesic Sinfonia''.Jury-Mitglied Wolfgang Winkler, zit. nach Kunzler, ''Jazz-Lexikon''.

References

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