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Welcome to Gerhard Gruber
composer for film and silent movies
Gerhard Gruber is an Austrian composer and piano player. As accompanist
for silent movies he has become the leading authority in Austria since
1988.
He has performed for more than 450 different films (Los Angeles 2011/12, Washington 2011, Mumbai-Pune 2012, Delhi-Pune-Goa 2011,
Tokyo 2006/ 2007/ 2008, Hobart/ Australia, Rotorua/ New Zealand 2008,
Padova, Motovun Film Festival, Cineconcerts Bordeaux 2005, Filmfestival Pisek/ CZ 2008/ 2011, Filmfestival Uherske Hradiste/ CZ, Munich,
Hamburg, Diagonale, Viennale 1999-2004).
As a basic principle he appreciates improvisation for his work, which
he regards as best way of a direct and always new dialogue between the
events on the screen, the music and the audience.
So no performance resembles the others. Gerhard Gruber likes it to be
enticed by the films again and again and to pass on these feelings to
the audience.
 | The piano "Red October" (why is the piano yellow?) - Murmansk - Lenin: Icebreaker
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*** Silent Movie Performances in Los Angeles
AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE, AERO THEATRE Los Angeles - 3.Mai 2012 - "CAFE ELEKTRIC"
LOS ANGELES JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, SABAN THEATRE Los Angeles - 6.Mai 2012 - "MOON OF ISRAEL"
FOTOBLOG
Pianist Gerhard Gruber with actor Ed Lauter ("The Artist") and Andreas Lins (Austrian Consulate)
Ed Lauter died on October 16,2013 - R.I.P.
meeting composer Paul Haslinger in May 2012
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Silent Movie Performances 2012 in Pune and Mumbai
FILM & TELEVISION INSTITUTE OF INDIA, Pune 23.2.12 - NATIONAL FILM ARCHIVE OF INDIA, Pune 25.2.12
POONA MUSIC SOCIETY, Pune 27.2.12 - NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Mumbai 29.2.12
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Film & Television Institute of India, Pune * National Film Archive of India, Pune
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National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai
KULTURFORUM WASHINGTON USA - "Austrian Short Silent Movie Comedies" 16.November 2011,
"Moon of Israel" 18.November 2011
VILLA AURORA LOS ANGELES USA - "Moon of Israel" 22.November 2011
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performance in Washington DC (Foto: Eva Krallinger) * playing the organ of Lion Feuchtwanger, Los Angeles
meeting film director Ivan Passer and his wife Anna at the Pisek Film Festival 2011
"Those who listen to Gerhard Gruber play the piano can once again trust their own breath." -
Author Ilse Aichinger
"Silent
movie music in the sense Grubers is neither an exaggeration of the
film, nor the “digestible making” of an “old-fashionable” artifact,
neither a vanity nor another simplification of the existing work. It is
always a partnership suggestion; in a partnership, which becomes never
boring as it is guaranteed. An “open relationship” including intimate
bond of trust."
Alexander Horwath, director of the Austrian Filmmuseum
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Film score "Cafe Elektric":
"Silent film accompanist Gerhard Gruber provides an excellent piano score on the Austrian DVD edition."
(imdb.com)
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