You can purchase my studio album "The Man In Black"here:
My live recording album „Antonius...live!“ is available on
iTunes
Influences
Silence - the most perfect manner of music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninow, Keith Jarret and the kitchen radio back in my childhood that played swiss folk songs and naturally generated sounds like chirping birds.
Source of mental/spiritual inspiriation
Christian Antonius Mueller started to play the piano at the age of four by listening to the kitchen radio and TV. Fascinated by the melodies that those devices played, he performed them on the piano and improvised the changes by himself.
As a seven-years-old, he started to take piano lessons and two years later he wrote his first composition for piano. He kept busy from now on improvising and composing on the piano.
Later, at high school, he was given the job as musical director for several plays of the school theater. He could now gain abilities in arranging and orchestrating. As well he was working as a live-improviser for theater and pantomime plays.
In choirs at high school and at the conservatory, he gained singing skills and for himself he wrote the first Pop Songs, including English lyrics.
Besides of all of that, he learnt to play the trumpet and joined several brass bands from the area where he lived.
The main impulses to develop musicality and technical skills, he got from Christian Zaugg with whom he studied professional classical piano performance and teaching at the conservatory in Bern and Zurich.
Zaugg taught him the Feuchtwanger-Technique, which bases on a natural body posture (Alexander Technique) and needs only a minimum of muscle strength.
To Mueller this technique was ground - breaking, because it allowed him to realize his musical ideas as far as he ever couldn't imagine.
At his diploma concert he reached with this technique sovereignty and control of the keys and tones and every kind of nervousness was washed away before it even had started to grow.
With the interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bachs Fugue and Prelude in F sharp (2nd Collection of the Well-Tempered Piano) he received the best mark.
During his conservatory-time, he wrote several pieces of instrumental music for different instruments with piano and a piece for romantic orchestra. As well, he was composing songs and back - ground music and acting for the cabaret theater trio Tacheles, that toured through Switzerland in 1994/95.
Besides the classical piano studies he attended courses in Jazz-Improvisation at the Jazz-Academy in Basel.
Most of all he was (and still is) fascinated b the phraseology of Keith Jarrett (especially in «The Köln-concert»). The lyrical play of Miles Davis impressed him as well.
After his diploma - concert and several years of working as a piano teacher, Antonius traveled through Canada and lived in Toronto for a couple months. He started to write Pop songs, based on the instrumental music he has written and improvised on the piano solo concert he did April 24th 1998 in Zurich.
He wouldnt have guessed that he did once make himself a living by a bar piano player. However, after his traveling time, he was looking for a musical - job and found response at the restaurant Seerose and Blue Note in Zurich. He built up a repertoire of approximately 500 Songs in a big variety of musical styles.
Meanwhile - after he had attended an English school in Vancouver, Canada - he studied Alexander Technique for six years (2003-2009) and gained skills in sequencing and computer-based recording which brought him back to his strong passion: Composing and performing for a listening audience.
Since Antonius was asked frequently about a CD, he decided to record his first album (The Man In Black, piano solo) in 2005.
You can purchase his studio album "The Man In Black"here:
March 31st 2006, he played another piano solo concert, partly composed and partly improvised. His live recording album „Antonius...live!“ is available on
iTunes.
Antonius released his first singer-songwriter album TIKKUN in the early 2009 and performed all songs at the release party July 4th 2009 at the Bazillus Club in Zurich.
His first Singer-Songwriter - Album called "TIKKUN" is available on
iTunes
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Aaron Koppel Quartet @ Andy's Jazz Club 11/20 and 11/21
We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it.
Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club The Aaron Koppel Quartet 5-8:30p, Corey Wilkes group plays at 9:30p 11 E. Hubbard St. Chicago, IL 60611 The Aaron Koppel Quartet performing original music from "The Wild Call Of The Multi-Takser" and their new album "Falling Together Falling Apart", jazz standards, covers by Radiohead and James Brown. New album will be available for purchase at the show. 21+ Cover $10
Aaron Koppel -Guitar, Matt Nelson; (Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos) -Keyboard, Graham Czach; (Chicago Afrobeat Project) -bass, Robert Tucker (Matthew Santos) -drums http://www.andysjazzclub.com http://www.myspace.com/aaronkoppelmusic http://www.coreywilkes.com
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Hey there, Here's one from left field... Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat? A while back I came across some very disturbing information, which inspired me to make this video: Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4 Both artistic (ensure you've good enough sound to enjoy the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice. Though the source materials are somewhat aged, the fundamentals remain relevant today. I encourage all to visit the YouTube web page above to learn more (Show your support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly re-post and circulate as widely as possible. Help to raise awareness. Say have you checked out my web site (http://www.faberoptime.com) recently? Take care and keep in touch. Best, Faber. "Just a guy trying to make the world a better place."
Thanks for the add! Good to have you as a friend! So great to see the internet in action this way, shortening distances between people. :) I hope all's well with you and that you enjoy checking out my web site at www.faberoptime.com some time. For occasional, new, refreshing, insightful and (possibly?!) valuable content, I encourage you to sign up for my free newsfeed/email newsletter (using the form on site at page right - high quality, low quantity, no spam!). Oh and you might like to take a look at some of my vids on my YouTube channel too! www.youtube.com/faberoptime Take care and keep in touch. Best, Faber. "Just a guy trying to make the world a better place."
Thank you so much for checking out my music and for the encouraging words. My CD will be coming out within the next month or two. Please drop by from time to time. I have a bunch of new tracks I will be posting on this site. -David Yancey
My website is online,
for now there is one song ready for download,
Drit Away, the song from the new RUEFA Travel TV spot,
More songs up soon, enjoy
www.christos.at
