"Geri Schuller, geb.1968, ist einer der profiliertesten Pianisten und Keyboarder Österreichs.
Von 1993 bis 2000 treibende Kraft hinter dem internationalen Soul /Blues /Gospel Gesangstrio "The Rounder Girls", davor 10 Jahre lang musikalisches Rückgrat der Rocktheatertruppe "Hallucination Company", Tourneen mit "?luatschink", Bill Ramsey, Harri Stojka u.v.a..
Pianistisch schöpft er aus dem Vollen: Swingender Jazz, erdiger Blues, knochentrockene Funklicks und breite, ekstatische Gospelakkorde finden wie selbstverständlich zueinander. Dazu kommt ein eigenwilliges Gesangstalent und ein gewissenhafter wie stilsicherer Arrangeur. Einmal auf der Bühne, erweist sich der schlaksige Niederösterreicher als Performer durch und durch.
Ein natürliches Showtalent, ein moderner Musikant." |
Lynne Kieran, Tini Kainrath, Kim Cooper (together "The Rounder Girls"), Matt Dusk, Sertab Erener, Heinrich v. Kalnein, Karl Hodina, Hallucination Company, Thomas Borchert, Paul Capsis, Doretta Carter, Heli Deinboeck, Günter Mokesch, Christian Mühlbacher, Fernando Paiva, Bill Ramsey, Benjamin Schmidt, Harri Stojka, Joschi Schneeberger, Angus Thomas, Zipflo Weinrich, Erika Pluhar, Bluatschink, Shlomit, Karl Ratzer, Willi Resetarits, Richard Österreicher, Myorah Middleton, Angelika Kirchschlager, Sona MacDonald, Erik Trauner, Bernd Fröhlich Orchester, Adi Hirschal, Norbert Schneider and countless others.
He was MD at several musical and theatre productions such as "Little Shop Of Horrors", "Cigarrettes In Vienna", "Herz-los" and "Tintenherz".
Schuller made various filmscores to movies, series and documentaries such as "Aus der Zeit", "Vollgas", "Tatort", "The Rounder Girls", "Die Gentlemen baten zur Kasse","Komplett von der Rolle", a song for "Vorstadtweiber", "DIe Dohnal" or "Brot". |
Gerald Schuller, born 1968 and raised in Mistelbach/Lower Austria, is one of the most versatile pianists and keyboard players in Austria as well as a renowned composer and arranger. He picked up the piano at the age of 9, six years later he attended the Vienna Conservatory, studying jazz piano with Rudi Wilfer and earning a degree in jazz theory under Heinz Cadek.
1988 he joined Austrias legendary rock theatre outfit "Hallucination Company", playing keyboards and trumpet as well as arranging and composing for the band. In 1993 he left the band to become founding member of the successfull vocal group "The Rounder Girls".
2003 he became a teacher at the Vienna University Of Music / Institute Of Popular Music, giving lectures on composing and arranging. After picking up the studies again he finished with a masters degree in jazzcomposition and -arrangement in 2019 at the MUK Vienna. He is also busy working as MD for various theatre/musical productions in the Vienna curcuit, as film composer and as a sideman for various artists.
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