'Bad Boy of Musick' Moritz Eggert will take to the C3 stage in Gdansk with the electric guitar duo Shraeng.

Pianist and composer Moritz Eggert was born in Heidelberg in 1965. His works have been honoured repeatedly, such as with the composition prize of the Salzburger Osterfestspiele, the Schneider-Schott prize, the 'Ad Referendum' prize in Montréal, the Siemens Förderpreis for young composers, and the Zemlinsky Prize. In 2003 he became a member of the 'Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste'.

In 1991 he founded the A*Devantgarde festival for new music with Sandeep Bhagwati. Moritz Eggert’s music has often been at the center of media attention. He wrote a soccer oratorio and the music for the opening ceremony of the German FIFA World Cup 2006. The German yellow press berated his opera The Snail (librettist and director: Hans Neuenfels) as a 'vile porn opera'. Another of his operas, Freax (premiere 2007), created a scandal around it’s director Christoph Schlingensief. A collage of all 22 Mozart operas for the Salzburger Festspiele (Oral Pole Mazy Brats – All Operas by Mozart) was also greeted with controversial reactions. In recent years he has also incited a heated discussion on the state of contemporary music, both as creator of the Bad Blog of Musick and in articles and lectures for various publications. Bordellballade is one of his most recent premieres (first performed at the Kurt Weill Fest 2010 in Dessau).

www.moritzeggert.de

Shraeng are Frank Wingold and Ralph Beerkircher: An electric guitar duo that specifically uses classical playing techniques whilst also making use of effects and distortions (wahwah pedal, tremolo, modulation). Unusual interpretations develop, the composed material is handled freely, rich orchestral sound colours and large dynamic range. Simultaneously, both musicians are commited to a meticulous and detailed performance of the composition.

www.shraeng.de