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Militärmusik Kärnten, AT

The armed forces band of Kärnten will do concerts, open airs, a marching show as well as performing as a workshoporchester with our guest conductor Henrie Adams!

Today the military marches put up in 1956 Carinthia from Klagenfurt are long ago a respected and respected representative of the federal army. Their call - nationwide and internationally - is well-founded, because in virtually ideal manner she fulfils multi-layered duties as military marches and concert wind orchestra of rank: She lends ceremonious occasions of the Republic of Austria, the country Carinthia and the federal army by her forming co-operation dignity and style. Their creating in concerto form attracted equally the biggest attention, because the festival concerts of the military marches Carinthia have become meanwhile Mecca for wind music experts.
During the summer months Carinthia opens another activity field to itself for the military marches, finally, she pleases that in numerous health resort concerts the guests of Carinthia with the coloured palette of good-quality light music. Thus the military marches are Carinthia not only a connection between federal army and population, but she already becomes in and around her location the musical message of her country.

The musical explanatory power and musical quality of this sound body took in the years from 1968 to 1980 under the management of her conductor at that time colonel Prof. m. Loc. cit. Sollfelner his first substantial impetus. This successfully begun work is strictly continued by military bandmaster colonel Sigismund Seidl who stands since 1980 at the head of the military marches not only, but also is extended consistently.
Today on the basis of the big cultural heritage of Old-Austrian military marches the band of military command Carinthia maintains a repertoire which it puts into the top flight European military bands. Original works from the time of the French revolution belong to it also like the big original compositions of the 19th century and the most important contributions of our time. Military marches of Carinthia stretch thus the curve from the first sinfonischen attempts to the avant-garde. Of course the big demanding transcriptions also count to the repertoire how they are brought today by the international top orchestras to the performance and coloured light music in every shading.

Homepage: www.oesterreichische-militaermusik.com

Siegismund Seidl - conductor

Military marches bandmaster, lieutenant-colonel Sigismund Seidl (year in 1950) is after successfully finished study in Graz, Salzburg, Vienna and Munich (Celibidache), since 1978 Austrian military bandmasters and since 1980 a commander of the military marches Carinthia.
Lieutenant-colonel Seidl is successfully active for many years many-sided and, therefore, is valid today as a put a tread wind music expert and profound expert of the matter.
He knows how to move his musical images with the military marches Carinthia persuasive. Therefore, important national and international results with "his" orchestra are a consistent result of his engagement and his single-minded work.
To the ÖBV (Austrian wind music association), and the WASBE (World association for Symphonic of tape and Esembles) he is available as an experienced, full of ideas musician and wind music expert in responsible areas of responsibility and, in addition, can expel to a successful teaching in the Carinthian land conservatoire in Klagenfurt.
As a juror Seidl was used with evaluation plays and competitions in Austria and in international wind music events in Italy, France, Luxembourg, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland (Wereld Muziek Concours Kerkrade) and Spain (Certamen, Valencia).

Besides, the varied experiences of the musician Seidl with the medium Wind orchestra and his images find her precipitation in numerous, often very critical and uncomfortable publications with which he draws the attention now already for many years in professional circles to himself.