“5 Million Pesos” – young jazz in and from Austria. A concert series by RadioKulturhaus Vienna and the Ö1 jazz department. The May 2023 edition features Lorenz Widauer, Michael Marginter & No Harm Done.
Concert: Friday, May 12 at 8pm in Studio 3, RadioKulturhaus Vienna
“No Harm Done” is a new band comprised of four young and talented musicians currently enrolled in the jazz program at the Music and Arts University in Vienna (MUK). The quartet is led by trumpeter Lorenz Widauer and tenor saxophonist Michael Marginter and rounded out by Krems-born bassist Clemens Gigacher and the 22-year-old drummer Bogdan Đurđević, recently relocated to Vienna from his native Belgrade.
Widauer, born in 1998 in Salzburg, was playing piano publicly at the age of ten; as a teenager, he performed Haydn’s trumpet concerto, Mozart’s piano concerto in C major, and George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” in the Philharmonie Salzburg. After studying classical trumpet and piano, Widauer’s interests turned to jazz; he has been studying jazz trumpet with Lars Seniuk in Vienna since 2019.
Michael Marginter, born in 1999 in Villach, began studying saxophone at the Gustav Mahler University in Klagenfurt before transferring to Vienna, where he has since performed with Roman Schwaller, Oliver Kent, and Mario Gonzi. He is active in a number of jazz, fusion, and rock bands and has joined the ranks of notable Villach tenor players along with Thomas Kugi, Lukas Gabric, and Robert Unterköfler (the latter two have already appeared in the “5 Million Pesos” series).
No Harm Done’s music is rooted deeply in the hard bop of the 1950s, but that basis gives way occasionally to outbursts of freedom and other musical forays. Among their inspirations they name Ornette Coleman, Joe Lovano, Miles Davis, and Kenny Wheeler; the ideas of these jazz icons are remolded in the band’s own image with impressive technique. We’ll surely be hearing more from these four in the coming years!
In cooperation with the Ö1 jazz department.
LINKS
Michael Marginter homepage
Translated from the German original by Philip Yaeger