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Maria Ma Pur
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 May 2026 | ||||||
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W E N D E Z E I T - the new album and the associated concert series by dulcimer player Maria Ma are very personal instrumental narratives about eternal change, life and death. The compositions are inspired by the overtone-rich sound of the hammered dulcimer, nature, encounters, journeys and stories. With her PUR Ensemble, Maria Ma weaves floating soundscapes with complex rhythms and occasionally lets her musical roots shine through. (Press release)
Maria Ma has been playing the hammered dulcimer since early childhood. Her creative approach to this ancient stringed instrument, which is thought to have its roots in Persia, repeatedly opens doors to musical projects in a wide range of genres. In 2014, Christian Kolonovits produced her CD "Holy Nine" and made it clear to a wide audience that the hammered dulcimer does not have to sound like folk music. Maria Ma created the music for the multi-award-winning Ö1 radio play "Märzengrund" by Felix Mitterer, made guest appearances at SCURDIA, experiments with her world grunge project MaWieHold! and plays alongside Austro-pop legends such as Gert Steinbäcker, Ulli Bäer and Wolfgang Ambros. Her double album "Begegnungen" featured musicians such as pianist Markus Schirmer and cellist Valerie Fritz. In 2024 she made her debut with Maria Ma PUR at the Wiener Konzerthaus. (press release)
Program and cast
Maria Ma: dulcimer
Christian Einheller: percussion
Thomas Hechenberger guitar
Mischa Krausz: bass
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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