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25. Mar - 3. Apr 2025
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Franui is the name of a particular alpine meadow in the small village of Innervillgraten in East Tyrol, located at 1,402 meters above sea level, where most of the members of the band grew up.
The Musicbanda Franui has been playing together in nearly unchanged formation since 1993 and performs regularly at festivals and concert halls across Europe.
With their reinterpretations of songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Mahler, Franui has gained recognition far beyond Austria’s borders. The ensemble sees itself as a "transformer station between classical music, folk music, jazz, and contemporary chamber music." Sometimes the classical originals are lovingly celebrated in all their beauty, other times they are turned on their head (or vice versa), stripped down, enriched, painted over, or reimagined. The lines between interpretation, improvisation, arrangement, and (re-)composition are blurred.
In their concerts and music theater productions, the musicians often collaborate with outstanding stage partners such as baritone Florian Boesch, puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan, the Viennese song duo Die Strottern, the cabaret duo Maschek, actor Nicholas Ofczarek, and many more.
The musicians of Franui:
Johannes Eder (clarinet, bass clarinet)
Andreas Fuetsch (tuba)
Romed Hopfgartner (soprano and alto saxophone, clarinet)
Markus Kraler (double bass, accordion)
Angelika Rainer (harp, zither, vocals)
Bettina Rainer (dulcimer, vocals)
Markus Rainer (trumpet, vocals)
Andreas Schett (trumpet, vocals, musical director)
Martin Senfter (valve trombone, vocals)
Nikolai Tunkowitsch (violin)
Franui is the name of a particular alpine meadow in the small village of Innervillgraten in East Tyrol, located at 1,402 meters above sea level, where most of the members of the band grew up.
The Musicbanda Franui has been playing together in nearly unchanged formation since 1993 and performs regularly at festivals and concert halls across Europe.
With their reinterpretations of songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Mahler, Franui has gained recognition far beyond Austria’s borders. The ensemble sees itself as a "transformer station between classical music, folk music, jazz, and contemporary chamber music." Sometimes the classical originals are lovingly celebrated in all their beauty, other times they are turned on their head (or vice versa), stripped down, enriched, painted over, or reimagined. The lines between interpretation, improvisation, arrangement, and (re-)composition are blurred.
In their concerts and music theater productions, the musicians often collaborate with outstanding stage partners such as baritone Florian Boesch, puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan, the Viennese song duo Die Strottern, the cabaret duo Maschek, actor Nicholas Ofczarek, and many more.
The musicians of Franui:
Johannes Eder (clarinet, bass clarinet)
Andreas Fuetsch (tuba)
Romed Hopfgartner (soprano and alto saxophone, clarinet)
Markus Kraler (double bass, accordion)
Angelika Rainer (harp, zither, vocals)
Bettina Rainer (dulcimer, vocals)
Markus Rainer (trumpet, vocals)
Andreas Schett (trumpet, vocals, musical director)
Martin Senfter (valve trombone, vocals)
Nikolai Tunkowitsch (violin)
