“5 Million Pesos” is a monthly concert and radio broadcast series of young jazz in and from Austria – presented by Radiokulturhaus Vienna and the Ö1 jazz department.
Veronika Morscher & Band
Veronika Morscher (Voice)
Simon Seidl (piano)
Hanno Busch (Guitar)
Lisa Hoppe (Upright Bass)
Valentin Duit (Drums)
Vorarlberg singer Veronika Morscher is less well-known in Austria than in neighboring Germany. This has to do with the fact that the 33-year-old has been living in the city on the Rhine since 2015 after studying in Boston, Vienna and Cologne. Since then, the Bregenz native has made a name for herself in Cologne, recording with the a cappella quartet Of Cabbages and Kings, Irish saxophonist Matthew Halpin and the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra.
In June 2024, “Blooming”, a new album under Morscher’s name, was released on the Berlin label LowSwing, with British pianist Kit Downes, guitarist Hanno Busch, double bassist Lisa Hoppe and Israeli drummer Amir Bresler as accompanists. In this work, Morscher, who has lived in Vienna since January 2024 and now teaches at the Department of Music Physiology at the local music university, presents herself as a pop and folk-influenced singer/songwriter in a jazz context, with an agile, catchy, impressive voice. In the course of the presentation of the new work in the “5 Million Pesos” series, Simon Seidl from Cologne will sit at the piano and Valentin Duit from Vienna will play the drums.
Concert: October 4, 2024, 8 p.m. @ Studio 3 at Radiokulturhaus Vienna
Airdate: October 5, 2024, 11:03 p.m. on the Ö1 Jazznacht
Translated from the German original by Arianna Alfreds.