Konzertante Aneignung – Eine musikalische Frechheit

In the organizer's words:

Cheekily stolen masterpieces for tuba and piano

Every musical instrument is proud of its best solo works. And rightly so! Tuba players know this in particular, because they hardly have any. So the most famous of all tuba players, ECHO Klassik award winner and cabaret artist Andreas Martin Hofmeir, steals the best from the competition. An outrageous concertante appropriation! And that's not all: with diatribes from his brand new Hundsgemeinen Instrumentenkunde, he also gives them a linguistic beating. He will be accompanied on the piano by Nonnberg Abbey organist Barbara Schmelz. Look forward to a special evening for the laugh muscles and the discerning ear!

A dog's eye view of instruments

With his book "Kein Aufwand: Schrecklich wahre Geschichten aus meinem Leben mit der Tuba", Andreas Martin Hofmeir provided plenty of material for the laugh muscles in 2016. Now the tuba player has published a second work of the finest musical cabaret poetry. 77 poems in High German and in the artistic language Starckdeutsch take us through the world of instruments and make fun of every single one of them. On this concert evening, he reads excerpts from them, sometimes lovingly tongue-in-cheek, sometimes completely tongue-in-cheek. Because one thing is clear to him: the dog-eared instrument people only know one queen - the tuba!

Andreas Martin Hofmeir

The tuba player Andreas Martin Hofmeir, who always plays barefoot, is one of the best and most versatile instrumentalists of our time and a crossover artist between genres. He is a professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, was a founding member of the Bavarian cult band LaBrassBanda and is successful both as a cabaret artist and as a classical tuba player. Hofmeir performs worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician, gives master classes and workshops at home and abroad, is a showmaster and author. His versatile artistic work was most recently honored with the Bavarian State Prize for Music 2020.

Barbara Schmelz

Pianist Barbara Schmelz comes from Upper Bavaria, studied church music and concert organ in Salzburg and Copenhagen and graduated with distinction. In 2015, she was the first woman to be appointed to the basilica of Scheyern Monastery, where she was director of the basilica music and singing school, organist and artistic director of the summer concert series there. In 2017, she took up the newly created position of musician and organist at Salzburg's Benedictine abbey, Nonnberg Abbey. There she launched another highly acclaimed concert series, the Nonnberg Evening Music.