An explosive combination: vocal acrobat Andreas Schaerer and the band Hildegard Lernt Fliegen. When Andreas Schaerer and Hildegard Lernt Fliegen take to the stage, the result is entertainment, excitement and a show of the very highest calibre. All the more so because Andreas Schaerer, winner of the 2015 ECHO Jazz Award, and his band simply cannot be pigeonholed.
The Swiss-born Schaerer is a vocal acrobat who effortlessly navigates a wide range of vocal registers and styles (from classical lieder to crooner and scat singing) with his voice. He can also produce a vast array of sounds, imitate instruments – right down to beatbox drums – and layer them in breathtaking polyphonic harmonies. Hildegard Lernt Fliegen has been thrilling audiences with their blend of jazz-rock, tarantella, circus blues, swing, opera and more – for over 20 years and now on a global stage.
In 2015, Andreas Schaerer was asked if he would like to combine a Hildegard Lernt Fliegen performance for the Lucerne Festival with a 20-minute composition for the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra. What Schaerer then delivered was a full-length 60-minute piece: »The Big Wig«, a masterpiece blending voice, jazz and contemporary music – or, to put it another way, a fusion of Schaerer, Hildegard Lernt Fliegen and the grand sound of a symphonic orchestra. In Lucerne, the performance had the audience on their feet; the press hailed it as »phenomenal«, the Neue Luzerner Zeitung wrote: »The remarkable thing was how orchestral complexity was combined here with grooves in a way that contemporary music does not usually feature.«
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PERFORMERS
NDR Radiophilharmonie orchestra
Hildegard Lernt Fliegen jazz ensemble
Matthias Wenger saxophone
Marco Müller double bass
Andreas Tschopp tuba
Benedikt Reising saxophone
Andreas Schaerer voice, human beats
Christoph Steiner percussion
Mariano Chiacchiarini conductor
PROGRAM
Andreas Schaerer
The Big Wig
The concert takes place without an interval.
