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GERNOT WOLFGANG

composer


Photograph by Diane Alancraig
Born in Bad Gastein, Austria in 1957, Gernot Wolfgang currently resides in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the program "Scoring for Motion Pictures and TV" at USC, and holds degrees from Berklee College of Music in Boston and the University of Music in Graz, Austria.
Gernot has received commissions from individuals and organizations such as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Oesterreichische Kammersymphoniker, Tiroler Kammerorchester InnStrumenti, Los Angeles Philharmonic principal bassoonist David Breidenthal, the Verdehr Trio & Michigan State University, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra flutist Susan Greenberg, the Jazz Festival of the European Broadcasting Union, Jazz Bigband Graz (Austria), Music from Salem (NY) and the Los Angeles based chamber music series Pacific Serenades and Chamber Music Palisades.
His concert works, which are published by Doblinger and Fatrock Ink Music Publishers, have been presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra (Japan), the Symponieorchester Vorarlberg (Austria) and the Oesterreichische Kammersymphoniker. They have been performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. and at the Konzerthaus in Vienna. Gernot's chamber music CD "Common Ground" was released by Albany Records in August 2006 (Albany Records/TROY854). His music can also be heard on the Polygram, Universal, Koch, Crystal Records, Capstone and Extraplatte labels.
As a guitarist with the Austrian jazz ensemble "The QuARTet" he has recorded two critically acclaimed CDs for Extraplatte and toured extensively throughout Europe.
From 1990-93 Gernot was a lecturer for Jazz Composition and Harmony at the University of Music in Graz and has guest lectured at the University of Music in Vienna. He has received awards, grants and scholarships from the American Composers Forum, American Music Center, the Austrian Ministry for Education and the Arts, the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research, Austro Mechana, Berklee College of Music, Billboard Magazine, BMI, the Fulbright Commission and the State of Tyrol, Austria.
Gernot Wolfgang is active in the film and TV music industry as a composer, arranger and orchestrator. He is currently composer in residence with the Beverly Hills International Music Festival.