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

DUO SAX & ORGAN

"Poetry and Fireworks"

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 and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Ines Schüttengruber is also an organ juror at 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 both domestically and internationally. In 2021 and 2022, three CDs featuring historical keyboards from the Esterhazy collection and the "Old Musical Instruments Vienna" collection were released.

In 2023, Ines Schüttengruber undertook a USA tour with the Vienna Philharmonic to Carnegie Hall in New York, where they performed Richard Strauss' "An Alpine Symphony" under Christian Thielemann. In 2024, Ines Schüttengruber played the organ during the intermission film for the world-famous New Year's concert dedicated to the Bruckner Year. In 2024, Ines Schüttengruber made her solo debut at the Vienna Musikverein with an evening featuring a Bösendorfer at the pedal piano as well as other historical keyboards. Ines Schüttengruber also 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 Orchestra).
www.inesschuettengruber.com

Josef Schultner, Saxophone and Clarinet

Josef Schultner completed his studies at the Vienna Jazz Conservatory and the Vienna University of Music in the concert field of saxophone and clarinet, twelve-tone technique, jazz composition, and arrangement.

From 1988 to 2010, he taught at the J.-M.-Hauer-Conservatory and until 2020 at the J.-M.-Hauer-Music School in Wiener Neustadt.

Josef Schultner has concert activities and recordings with many international artists (including Albano Carrisi, Supermax, Dave Palmer, Falco …). His show band "Magic Sound" has been awarded gold and platinum multiple times 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 concerts in Europe and America. Recently, Josef Schultner 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 been performing since 2006. The repertoire ranges from organ literature from the 16th century to literature for organ and saxophone from the 21st century. 

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

An important component of the concerts is improvisation, whether in the form of free improvisations or as 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 space sound play a crucial role. Josef Schultner moves through the church space during improvisations to utilize the acoustics even better.

The duo of Josef Schultner and Ines Schüttengruber has performed concerts both domestically and internationally since 2006 (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 been heard multiple times in the parish church of St. George in Neustift. Their concerts are among the most impressive and touching that we are allowed to present in the summer of 2025.