REAL STUBAI Autumn Highlights: Concert for Saxophone, Clarinet, and Organ

DUO SAX & ORGAN

"Poetry and Fireworks"

Program:

"Alpha plus” - Improvisation, Sax&Organ

Georg Muffat (1653-1750): Toccata XI

Eric Satie (1866-1925): Gnossienne, Clarinet & Organ (Own arrangement & Improvisation)

J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Prelude in A minor, BWV 543, Organ solo

Improvisation on 
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Melody, Clarinet & Organ 

Oskar Merikanto (1868-1924)
To the migratory birds in the south, op. 11, 1
Romance op.12, transcribed by Lambert Kleesattel

Soprano saxophone solo, Cadenza

Michael Gailit, *1957
Go, tell it on the mountain
Inventio from Jericho, from: Four Little Spiritual Preludes

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Prelude in D minor, op. 37, 2

Improvisation on “Veni creator spiritus”, Sax & Organ

César Franck (1822-1890)
Prelude, Fugue and Variations, op. 18

“Omega plus” - Improvisation, Sax & Organ
                                                   
Admission - voluntary donations welcome

Performers:

Ines Schüttengruber, Organ
Ines Schüttengruber is an organist and pianist and teaches organ and historical keyboard instruments at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She completed her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna as well as at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Ines Schüttengruber is also a jury member for organ competitions.

Ines Schüttengruber is the dedicatee of numerous works and the director of the summer concerts at Stift Melk.

Organ and piano chamber music concerts take Ines Schüttengruber within Austria and abroad. In 2021 and 2022, three CDs were released featuring historical clavier instruments from the Esterhazy collection and the "Old Musical Instruments Vienna" collection.

In 2023, Ines Schüttengruber undertook a USA tour with the Vienna Philharmonic to Carnegie Hall in New York, where they performed Richard Strauss' "Eine Alpensinfonie" under Christian Thielemann. In 2024, Ines Schüttengruber will play the organ during the intermission film for the world-famous New Year's Concert for the Bruckner Year. In 2024, Ines Schüttengruber will make her solo debut at the Vienna Musikverein with a Bösendorfer evening on the pedal clavier and other historical keyboards. Ines Schüttengruber has performed on the piano in a duo with Nikolaus Habjan (artistic whistler) and the Ensemble Frullato (Stefan Tomaschitz - flute and Robert Gillinger - bassoon, both members of the Vienna Symphony).
www.inesschuettengruber.com

Josef Schultner, Soprano saxophone and Clarinet

Josef Schultner completed a degree at the Vienna Jazz Conservatory and the Vienna University of Music in the concert fields of saxophone and clarinet, twelve-tone playing, jazz composition, and arrangement.

From 1988 to 2010, his teaching activities took him to the J.-M.-Hauer Conservatory and until 2020 to the J.-M.-Hauer Music School in Wiener Neustadt.

Josef Schultner has concert engagement and recording work with many international artists (among others with Albano Carrisi, Supermax, Dave Palmer, Falco…). His show band "Magic Sound" has won multiple gold and platinum awards and reached number 1 in the Austrian charts.

Josef Schultner has published compositions for stage music (e.g., for the film "Der Knochenmann"), soundtracks, and pieces of various styles.

Josef Schultner is internationally active as a saxophonist and clarinetist. Together with other musicians, Josef Schultner performs in Europe and America. Most recently, he played at international jazz festivals in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and the Virgin Islands.
www.josefschultner.com

Duo Sax & Organ

With Josef Schultner on saxophone and Ines Schüttengruber on organ, the Duo Sax & Organ has existed since 2006. The repertoire spans from organ literature from the 16th century to literature for organ and saxophone of the 21st century.

One goal of this formation is to connect music from the 16th to the 21st century through an innovative blending of the two instruments. Organ pieces are contrasted with improvisations for tenor, alto, soprano saxophones, and clarinet.

An important component of the concerts is improvisation, whether in the form of free improvisations or improvisations on a given theme (Cantus firmus (fixed melody) of a chorale, Gregorian antiphon (refrain), improvisation on an organ work, introduction to an organ work…). The acoustics and the room sound play a crucial role. During the improvisations, Josef Schultner wanders through the church space to utilize the acoustics even better.

Since 2006, the duo of Josef Schultner and Ines Schüttengruber has performed concerts both nationally and internationally (Stift Melk, Vienna, Wiener Neustadt, Bad Schönau, Venice, Hungary, Luxembourg, Paris).

Three CDs with live recordings have been released.

Ines Schüttengruber and Josef Schultner have already performed several times at the parish church of St. George in Neustift. Their concerts are among the most impressive and moving that we can present in the Summer of Music 2025.