Gast Waltzing

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Gast Waltzing in 2014

Gaston ("Gast") Waltzing (born 1956) is a trumpeter and composer from Luxembourg. He has created several jazz bands including Largo and the Luxembourg National Jazz Orchestra and has composed music for films and television programmes as well as operas combining classical music with jazz and rock. He goes by the nickname of piu.[1][2]

Biography[]

Gast Waltzing was born in the city of Luxembourg on 13 August 1956. He began his music studies at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg when he was just 7 years old. He continued his classical training at the Brussels Royal Conservatoire, completing his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris.[3]

In 1982, he became Professor of Trumpet at the Luxembourg Conservatoire and in 1986 founded the school's Jazz Department, which he heads. He has recorded numerous albums covering classical, jazz and dance, with groups such as "Atmosphere", "Life's Circle" "Largo", all of which he created himself. As a composer, he has recorded music for the Luxembourg film A Wop Bop A Lop Bop (1989), as well as for television. The TV film provided an opportunity for him to compose his first orchestral movie score. Since then, he has continued to write for orchestra and has worked closely with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, for which he has conducted the "Pops At The Phil" programmes featuring singers such as Dionne Warwick, Maurane and James Morrison.[3] All in all, he has written over 150 scores for television and movies.[4]

In 2004, he founded WPR Records, which sets out to promote young musicians and has featured the Luxembourg National Jazz Orchestra.[4] In 2008, Waltzing was appointed jazz director at the Echternach International Music Festival.[3]

Awards[]

  • 1989: Nomination for Best Composer, European Film Awards for A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom[5]
  • 1997: Deutscher Filmpreis (Musik)
  • 2005: Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis for "George and the Dragon"
  • 2016: (together with Angélique Kidjo and the Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg): Grammy Award for the best World Music Album (Sings; 2015) [6]

Film and TV music[]

Movies[]

Filmmusik (Selection)[]

TV series and films[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Arts et culture au Luxembourg: La musique". (in French) Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Waltzing, Gast(on)", Luxemburger Lexikon, Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg, 2006. (in German)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Maggie Parke, "Gast Waltzing", Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "WPR Records" Archived 2011-01-29 at the Wayback Machine, Waltzingparke.com. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  5. ^ "European Film Awards (1989)", Internet Music Database. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
  6. ^ Grammy für Angélique Kidjo mit dem OPL op wort.lu vum 16. Februar 2016

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