Wolfgang Puschnig

Wolfgang Puschnig is an Austrian jazz musician and composer.

Biography

After his studies of saxophone and flute at the Vienna Conservatory Puschnig was the founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra together with Mathias Rüegg in the mid-1970s. Here he was active until 1989. He was also involved in projects with Ernst Jandl involving Lauren Newton. He also played with Hans Koller in the early 1980s, with the quartet 'Air Mail' and 'Saxofour'. Carla Bley brought him into her groups in the mid 1980s. He worked with Wolfgang Mitterer, Uli Scherer, and his longtime partner Linda Sharrock and Jamaaladeen Tacuma in different groups, and also has cooperated with Reinhard Flatischler, Herbert Joos, Christof Lauer, and Michel Godard. In the project "Alpine Aspects" he started in 1991 with jazz musicians and the Amstetten musicians together. In addition, he has repeatedly performed with the Korean percussion ensemble SamulNori.
Puschnig is Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and former Head of the Department of Popular Music.

1998: Hans Koller Prize as "Jazz Musician of the Year"
2003: Recognition Award of Carinthia
2004: The first musician to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Klagenfurt
2016: Officer's Cross of the State of Carinthia's Order of Merit
2022: Cultural Prize of Carinthia

;With 'Air Mail'

;With 'AM 4'

;With Red Sun Samulnori

;With Paul Urbanek and Hans Koller

With the Vienna Art Orchestra

;With other projects

1986: Obsoderso, as Wolfgang Puschnig / Wolfgang Mitterer
1986: Pat Brothers No. 1., with The Pat Brothers
1988: Two Songs For Another Lovely War, as Wolfgang Puschnig / Christian Radovan / Wolfgang Reisinger / Uli Scherer / Heiri Kaenzig / Harry Sokal / Mathias Rüegg
1998: Holy Aureols Esoteric, as Wolfgang Puschnig and Stefan Benkö
1998: Spaces, as Wolfgang Puschnig • Mark Feldman
1998: hot ROOM, as Lechner / Puschnig / Tang / Youssef
2000: Almost Blue, with Willi Resetarits
2002: Grey, as Wolfgang Puschnig | Steve Swallow | Don Alias | Victor Lewis
2002: Red - White - Red & Spangled, with Harry Sokal
2005: Odem, as Wolfgang Puschnig, Jatinder Thakur, Dhafer Youssef
2005: Color Fields, as Newton - Huber - Puschnig
2005: Voices Of Time, with Harry Sokal
2007: Late Night Show Part II , as Puschnig / Sharrock
2008: Gemini Gemini, with Jamaaladeen Tacuma
2008: Alpine Aspects - Homage To O.C., as Wolfgang Puschnig | Robert Pussecker
2010: Terra, with Sainkho Namtchylak
2010: For the Love of Ornette, with Jamaaladeen Tacuma
2011: Berühren, with Triomobile
2014: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update, with Michael Mantler