Christoph Zimper (?-)
"The Pilgrimage", quintette pour clarinette et cordes
"Quartett zur Wende der Zeitfür", pour trio avec piano et clarinette
The Millennials Mass

Christoph Zimper, clarinette, voix, e-piano
Bryan Benner, voix, guitare
Romana Amerling, soprano
Natalija Isakovic, violon
Oliver Pastor, violon
Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, alto
Marie Spaemann, violoncelle
Lukas Ströcker, contrebasse
Sabina Hasanova, piano, e-piano
Thomas Toppler, batterie, vibraphone
Eggner Trio
Platform K+K

Just a few years into his career, Christoph Zimper found himself the solo clarinetist with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, and in great demand as an orchestra- and chamber musician. In 2018 he decided to leave the orchestral jobs behind and find out how to express existential matters – like an “intensely perceived moment”, for example, “that may look perfectly unremarkable from the outside” – in a musical language of his own. Or how one might use musical means to get Millenials – to which he belongs himself – to ponder the eternal questions of life. Here now is Zimper’s fascinating debut album as a composer, for which he has asked a selection of hand-picked soloists, the Eggner-Trio, and the group Plattform K+K Vienna to join him in the studio.