- artist:Duo Sonoma
- featured artist:Sara Gregoric - git, Mira Gregoric - violin
- release year:2021
- style(s):Indie-Classical
- country:Austria
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Sounddesign Austria
- label:Alessa Records
- publisher:Sounddesign Austria
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ALW 4013 | A collection of original compositions, which, with different approaches from classical to jazz and interwoven with the special Carinthian-Slovenian note, creates something new and unique.
ARTISTS:
Mira Gregorič - violin
Sara Gregorič - guitar
Surrounded by music from an early age, the siblings Gregorič, Mira violin and Sara played guitar together as early as preschoolers. The first public appearance soon followed and as part of the music education at what is now the Slovenian Music School of the Province of Carinthia, the first excellent competitions also followed. The music studies led the two sisters to Vienna at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and to Linz at the Anton Bruckner Private University, where they broadened their musical work as artists, their stylistic curiosity and also completed their pedagogical training.
The Duo Sonoma is also characterized by the fact that they have been making music together for over 20 years, which is reflected in the unique interplay. The communication in the game takes place on a non-verbal basis and a togetherness becomes noticeable from the first note played.
Her own compositions are a combination of different musical genres, which are influenced by classical music, tango and jazz improvisation, folk melodies and even new music. So their music is always created together, because musical and personal exchange are always in the foreground here. The respective training (rhythm studies, classical studies and jazz studies) and different musical emphases are combined in the pieces of the sisters, thus creating an extraordinary synthesis of these styles.
The duo's first CD, entitled "DUO SONOMA - I", is a collection of their own compositions that they have created so far. Shaped by personal experiences, their compositions feel calm moments that are broken up by rhythmic elements. Each piece is unique in its way and unmistakable in its structure and is in a flowing musical dialogue.
Mira Gregori received her first violin lessons at the age of four in the Glasbena šola na Koroškem / Carinthian Music School and at the Carinthian State Conservatory with Prof. Helfried Fister. She completed her bachelor's degree in music and movement pedagogy / rhythm with a focus on the first instrument (violin with Prof. Ulrike Danhofer) and musical improvisation at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with distinction. She is currently studying for a master's degree in instrumental pedagogy, jazz and improvised music - violin with Prof. Andreas Schreiber at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. For several years she has been a violin teacher, teaching elementary music education at the Children's Music Group in Vienna, works in the field of rhythm with different ages and has been teaching at the Jam Music Lab private university in Vienna since autumn 2020. As a representative of a new musical and creative scene, she also complements her educational work in the area of performing performance, where she has already participated in several projects (including "Raw Matters", "Envolving Creatures", etc.)
Sara Gregorič received her first guitar lessons from her father at the age of four and was a student at the Glasbena šola na Koroškem / Carinthian music school until she enrolled at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She completed her bachelor's degree as well as her master's degree in instrumental pedagogy in guitar with Prof. Ahmed Noor Baluch and Prof. Gunter Schneider with distinction. Sara Gregorič began teaching at various educational institutions during her studies and has been a guitar teacher at the Vienna Music School since September 2020. As a young educator, she has already gained a lot of practical experience in planning and executing projects in the cultural-educational field - be it in Carinthia as a lecturer and employee in the organization of the Sonus chamber music workshop or in the coordination of various projects and symposia in Vienna. Since 2016 a Kreul-Carlevaro guitar with a double bottom and diverging string lengths and her artistic enthusiasm is for chamber music. Concert activities in various chamber music formations.