"Pannonica Project" meets mdw
Gina Schwarz | Porgy & Bess Stage Band
Baroness Pannonica de Königswarter, a fighter, patron, muse, confidante and intimate friend of many musicians is often affectionately called the Jazz Baroness. For her, jazz embodied modernism, tolerance and the opposite of racial mania. She broke with all prevailing social conventions and stood up for the problems of disadvantaged black jazz musicians.
Under the motto Strong Voices, the current Porgy & Bess Stage Band with the Gina Schwarz "Pannonica Project" features guests from various countries in addition to Austrian jazz musicians.
The project "Pannonica Project" meets mdw
- includes concerts of the Porgy & Bess Stage Band 2017/18 with international instrumentalists and composers as guests
- offers workshops, discussions and dialogues with international female musicians from different genres, different generations and different countries, on different instruments
- takes place in one of the most renowned jazz clubs in Europe, the Porgy & Bess and at the ipop of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- promotes dialogues within different jazz scenes in Austria and the exchange with the international jazz scene
- gives insight into great careers of women in popular music
- is a project of the Department of Popular Music with the kind support of the platform Gender_mdw
Project team | Gina Schwarz and Magdalena Fürnkranz
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