BIOGRAPHY

Ondrej Janoska, violin Roman Janoska, violin František Janoska, piano Julius Darvas, double bass

The musical universe is infinite and the galaxy of best-loved composers alone contains thousands of musical suns. Stylistically, though, these are often Musical light-years apart. The Janoska Ensemble has set out to span intergalactic Distance with its unique synthesis of musical worlds and its venture has won it an enthusiastic international public in a remarkably short time.

The four young progenitors of this art – each with a superb classical training – have combined their individual musical attainments to perfection: Ondrej, František and Roman Janoska (three brothers from Bratislava) and their brother-in-law Julius Darvas (born and bred in Konstanz) are already successful in repeated engagements on four continents.

The Janoska Ensemble has achieved the feat, in the competitive jungle of today’s music scene, of forging their specific style into their own brand and thus into a genre concept, namely their Janoska Style, transposing familiar references from classic to pop into an audibly related and yet quite new message. Nor is this all: each of their precision-tuned arrangements invariably carries the hallmark of the ensemble’s abounding musical invention, the Janoska fingerprints. This fingerprinting – with an amazing range of expression from moving to thrilling – naturally shows up in the ensemble members’ own compositions. The Janoska Style possesses the rare ability to enthuse dedicated followers of totally opposing genres. Its vast reserves of positive energy electrify an audience after just a few bars; by the time they have embarked on their spontaneous virtuoso improvisations, the four great artists have stirred even the most reticent listeners from their seats.

The Janoska Ensemble’s debut album “Janoska Style” was released on the prestigious classical music label Deutsche Grammophon in 2016 and attained gold status within a year. Ondrej Janoska, an alumnus of Professor Boris Kuschnir’s renowned violin class, displayed his skills as a soloist from a young age with various orchestras and played first violin in the Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Vienna Philharmonic.

His younger brother Roman Janoska, who also received classically training from teachers such as Pavel Vernikov, made a name for himself as a jazz violinist in ensembles which include the Vienna Art Orchestra.

František Janoska is both a pianist and sought-after arranger and composer in stylistically diverse contexts. Among others he is a long-standing member of the Roby Lakatos Ensemble and Musical Director of Erwin Schrott’s Rojotango Tour, and annually takes part in the Project Hollywood in Vienna as a solo pianist.

Double bassist Julius Darvas was born into a musically eminent Hungarian family and has been a member of the Stage Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera since 2001. He is a regular substitute for the Vienna Philharmonic and has made a name for himself as a jazz bassist.. THE PROGRAMS Janoska Style ***INTERMISSION*** Johann STRAUSS II (1825–1899) / Boris FOMIN (1900–1948) Astor PIAZZOLLA (1921–1992) Fledermaus Overture à la Janoska Adiós Nonino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fv4wwPLwFw Roman JANOSKA (1989*) Fritz KREISLER (1875–1962) / Sergei RACHMANINOFF( 1873–1943) Melodie for Melody Liebesleid Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756–1791) / František JANOSKA (1986*) František JANOSKA (1986*) Rumba for Amadeus Musette pour Fritz (Hommage to Fritz Kreisler) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61i7ZyQ3ics Jules MASSENET (1842–1912) (1844–1908) / Serbian Traditional Thais Meditation Tarantella vs. Niška Banja (1838–1875) / Franz WAXMAN (1906–1967) Niccolò PAGANINI (1782–1840) Janoska ENSEMBLE Fantasie (Fantasy on the opera Carmen) Paganinoska https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkv_P0YH9R8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD9dZuV_DUI Janoska Ensemble goes Symphonic 1. Johann STRAUSS II (1825–1899) / Boris FOMIN (1900–1948) Inspired by the success of their debut album «Janoska-Style» (Deutsche Grammophon), Fledermaus Overture à laJanoska the Janoska Ensemble now presents the first program for symphony and chamber 2. Fritz KREISLER (1875-1962) orchestra. Come along on a new musical journey and experience how the richness of Caprice Viennois ideas, visions and virtuosity of the «Janoska style» are lifted to a symphonic level by 3. František JANOSKA (1986*) the depth, colours and versatility of the orchestra! Musette pour Fritz (Hommage to Fritz Kreisler) 4. Cesar Portillo de la LUZ (1922-2013) Contigo della Distancia 5. Pablo de SARASATE (1844–1908) / Serbian Traditional Tarantella vs. Niška Banja

***INTERMISSION***

6. Georges BIZET (1838–1875) / Franz WAXMAN (1906–1967) Carmen Fantasie Fantasy on the opera Carmen 7. Roman JANOSKA (1989*) Hello Price 8. Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756–1791) / František JANOSKA (1986*) Rumba for Amadeus 9. Carlos GARDEL (1890-1935) Por una Cabeza 10. Niccolò PAGANINI (1782–1840) Janoska ENSEMBLE Paganinoska

All pieces were arranged by František Janoska and the Janoska Ensemble in the particular Janoska Style. FROM VIENNA TO LIVERPOOL A Tribute To The Beatles

What could link Liverpool with Vienna? Music. Back in the 1960s, four lively lads from Liverpool in north-west England embarked on a career unprecedented in music history. The Beatles – as John, Paul, George and Ringo were known – created a new and unmistakable style of “beat music” and wrote a stream of imaginative, high-end, popular numbers. They succeeded – without the aid of today’s channels of music distribution – in thrilling hundreds of millions of music-lovers with their constant hits. Their fascinating melodic wealth has been endlessly referenced and re-interpreted.

Today it is the four handsome young musicians of the Vienna-based Janoska Ensemble who have launched a world-spanning career with the new, unmistakably universal language of their Janoska Style, and now they are adding the Beatles to their multifaceted repertoire. It is the hallmark of the Janoska Ensemble that they forge surprising links between otherwise unrelated musical genres, new creations that satisfy the ear and the soul. Following its gold-status debut CD “Janoska Style”, the ensemble is now preparing the programme for its second album on Deutsche Grammophon, under the title “From Vienna to Liverpool. A Tribute to The Beatles”.

There will be adaptations of classical pieces by Kreisler, Beethoven, PROGRAM FROM VIENNA TO LIVERPOOL Liszt, Wieniawski, and Bach. The work of the Beatles, particularly Lennon-McCartney, will be referenced in “immortal” numbers like 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - «Marriage of Figaro» Overture Yesterday, Let It Be, Hey Jude and Penny Lane, enriched with hitherto 2. Ludwig van Beethoven - «Moonlight Sonata» unknown colours in the equally unparalleled Janoska Style and sometimes 3. Paul McCartney - «Yesterday» merged with the ensemble’s own compositions and works by the 4. Henryk Wieniawski - «Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 15» composers named above. 5. Paul McCartney / Ludwig van Beethoven - «Beathoven» (Let It Be /Ode to Joy) with Vienna Boys' Choir 6. Roman Janoska / Paul McCartney - «Hey Jude - Hey Roman Jr.!» 7. Paul McCartney /Janoska - «Tango por Penny Lane» The Janoska Ensemble’s international fan club can look forward to a 8. František Janoska -«Leonidas» Programme full of dazzling musical invention, in which the passion 9. Johann Sebastian Bach - «Air» and delight of four seasoned musicians again bursts all barriers of 10. John Lennon - «Help» musical time and space in surging virtuosity. 11. Franz Liszt - «Mephisto Valse, No. 1» S. 514 12. John Lennon - «Imagine» 13. Fritz Kreisler «Preludium and Allegro» in the Style of Janoska 14. František Janoska «Beatlemania»

All pieces were arranged by František Janoska and the Janoska Ensemble in the particular Janoska Style. CONTACT

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