MCM College Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik Jazz Quartet from Austria
Appreciative audience members of students, faculty and guests from Macao and Hong Kong were entranced by two performances Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik Jazz Quartet from Austria gave in Macao recently.
The Quartet’s visit to Macao was in collaboration with the Austrian Consulate General to Hong Kong and Macau, Österreichisches Generalkonsulat. Firstly in MCM College Hall, and then in collaboration with Sofitel Hotel in the Lobby Rendez Vous, the Quartet brought special magic to Macao.
Everyone was bowled over by all the members’ consummate musicianship, fine artistry, palpable ensemble and technical wizardry. The almost electric sense of communication and sensitive synchronicity between the musicians during performance was fascinating and certainly a wow factor!
It was admirable to see the Quartet win over both audiences, delighted by the Quartet’s technical brilliance together with the sheer joy that the Quartet brings to its performances.
Everybody admired the wide-ranging, eclectic influences, so beautifully brought to life in Michaela’s and Robert’s compositions, reflecting vast experience of performing across the world.
Favourites were “Malaga”, dedicated to the city in Spain; “Sunday Afternoon” with Bossa Nova rhythms, ‘scat’ singing and featuring Flugelhorn; “Serbian Rhapsody”; “Roboraga” in style of Indian scale ‘Raga’ where the guitar was retuned to D like the Sitar; “Seven Ways to Fez” with Moroccan and Arabian influences with time signature alternating between 10/8 and 4/4.
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