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

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musician (bass,

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), composer and computer graphic designer.

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

Graz University of Technology Graz University of Technology (german: link=no, Technische Universität Graz, short ''TU Graz'') is one of five universities in Styria, Austria. It was founded in 1811 by Archduke John of Austria and is the oldest science and technology research ...

and studied simultaneously double bass and jazz composing at the

University of Music and Performing Arts The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousa ...

in this city. Since 1969, Roidinger has played double bass with

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and Eje Thelin 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 Alan Skidmore,

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and Branislav Lala Kovačev. 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,

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and John D. Thomas. In

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, which made the core of his ECM 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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, Albert Mangelsdorff, 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 ( TU Graz 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 Ernst Koref Composition Prize for his computer composition ''Siamesic Sinfonia''.Jury-Mitglied Wolfgang Winkler, zit. nach Kunzler, ''Jazz-Lexikon''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roidinger, Adelhard Austrian jazz musicians 1941 births Living people Jazz bass guitarists 20th-century classical composers Academic staff of the Graz University of Technology 20th-century jazz composers