Wolfgang Hanninger

Wolfgang Matthias Hanninger, saxophone, clarinet, trombone

In 2008 after his curriculum in classical clarinet under guidance of Bettina Faiss at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium München, Wolfgang moved to Lausanne for an education in Jazz saxophone with Robert Bonisolo and George Robert. He graduated from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in 2012. Concerts with his band ‘French-Swiss Connection’ led to the finals of competitions such as the Jazzpreis Burghausen (Germany) or the Tremplin Lémanique at the Montreux Jazz Festival. As sideman the fruitful collaboration with the Swiss pianist Jérôme Jeanrenaud was documented in live performances on the Radio Suisse Romande (RSR) and during the final of the Crédit Suisse Jazz Prize. Important stops on his musical roadmap were Jazzascona, Cully Jazz, the Montreux Jazz festival, the Jazzwoche Burghausen, the Unterfahrt München, LASALLE College of the arts Singapore...

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