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Pianist and composer Wolfgang Seligo is very much at home in many divergent musical styles. His original music is influenced by jazz, rock, and modern classical music and driven by a funky and powerful sound from the piano. He brought his work onto the international stage in various formations but also solo. He gave concerts in the Forbidden City of Peking, on the Red Square of Moscow, but also in Morocco, Senegal, Chicago and Washington. Other performances include festivals and concert series in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. After jazz studies in Vienna, Wolfgang Seligo gathered his first experiences as a composer, producer and musician in the early 1990s. In addition to his participation in various ensembles in the Viennese scene, he cofounded together with Dhafer Yousseff and Gerhard Reiter the ethnic jazz project "Ziryab" (Extraplatte) which toured in Austria and Germany. He also pursued other activities, including individual activities as a composer and a co-producer for some regional music projects (Ariola BMG, EMI) and working as an advertising and media composer for radio, TV and cinema. But since around 2000, Wolfgang Seligo has been dedicating himself to concert piano music in combination with jazz, rock and improvised music and elements of classical music and toured with his music throughout Europe and Asia as well as Africa and the United States. The liaison of improvised music with classical and contemporary classical music plays a predominant position in the compositions of Wolfgang Seligo. Since 2007 Seligo has been playing piano solo concerts and concerts with classical instrumentation (e.g. cello) and improvisation playing a significant role. This was followed by some music releases and the solo piano work "Alternative Jazz Piano", for jazz pianists and classically trained pianists. Concerts and compositions from 2014 (selection): Senegal Jazz Fest Saint Louis, 2014 - Washington D.C. @cultural forum, 2014 - cultural forum Rome, 2016 - Jazz Fest Wien, 2017 - solo concerts and jazz workshop Tehran, 2019 - opening concert dialog Austria./Slovenia, Laibach, 2019 “Jalousienballet” (“Jalousie Ballet”), commissioned composition for 70ty Years Volkshochschule Hietzing, Vienna 2017 Composition “Sophie” , 70ty Years Franz Lehar Festival, Bad Ischl 2018


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Two Releases From Wolfgang Seligo

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Below are two releases from pianist Wolfgang Seligo, who has eclectic influences, boundless energy and technique, with a flair for self-promotion in the best sense. Wolfgang SeligoWolfgang Seligo Jazz Trio Self Published 2015 The four tracks presented here, all composed by Seligo and totaling under sixteen minutes, present a very tight, stylistically varied mainstream piano trio. The first tune, “Major Max" has much going for it in ...

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"Nevertheless, Seligo is obviously extremely talented, both incomposition and performance." Budd Kopman (New York) allaboutjazz

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2023

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2022

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Felicia In Africa

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2022

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The Next Fifty Years

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2019

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Jalousie Ballet

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2018

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Theme No1 (live)

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Felicia In Africa

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The Next Fifty Years

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Jalousie Ballet

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Prokofiev

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Major Max

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