Photos: Anton Possegger
The four musicians of Trombone Attraction have been performing together on stage for two decades – and celebrated their 20th anniversary at a concert in Ossiach. The audience was treated to a varied programme featuring favourite pieces, seminal works and musical companions. Musically versatile, stylistically boundless and shaped by the ensemble’s shared history – complemented by that subtle touch of humour and stage presence that has always characterised their concerts.
This anniversary concert was more than just a musical journey through the past years: it was a vivid portrait of a long-standing artistic partnership – and an invitation to be part of this special story and to join in the celebrations.
Since 2006, the four gentlemen of Trombone Attraction have been through a great deal. Together, they have won competitions, played hundreds of concerts, travelled to numerous countries, recorded four and a half CDs and taken them all over the world. They’ve earned money, spent even more, spent countless hours on aeroplanes, delayed trains and cramped cars, toasted their successes, failures or just for the sake of it with beer and wine, and drunk an estimated 44,106 cups of espresso (and the number keeps rising).
They have weathered professional and personal crises; they have lived, loved, practised, rehearsed, laughed, cried, argued and made up again. They have married four wonderful women, had eight children, bought two flats and built four houses.
What binds them together is more than just a shared profession. It is a friendship that has grown over the years, one that you can hear – in every note, in every phrase, in every shared breath.
Twenty years are not the end. They are a milestone. And every new breath continues to write the story…
erste probe am 23.11.2006
erstes KONZERT am 10.03.2007
