Mathias Rüegg

b. 8 Dec 1952, Zurich, Switzerland. Through the 70s Rüegg performed piano with a number of bands while learning composition and organizing in Graz and Vienna, where he ultimately settled and produced the Vienna Artwork Orchestra (1977) and afterwards the Vienna Artwork Choir (1983). Well known members from the Orchestra possess included Wolfgang Puschnig, Roman Schwaller, Lauren Newton and Wolfgang Reisinger, and in the first 80s they gained several big music group honours and released acclaimed albums for the hatART label. Rüegg is constantly on the play the piano using the Orchestra in a reliable modern design, and in 1997 celebrated its 20th wedding anniversary with a thorough Western european tour and a container set discharge. Rüegg is normally acclaimed for the music he provides written and organized for the orchestra. He provides taken designs from the complete background of jazz as well as produced a dual album of agreements from the music of Erik Satie. In his agreements he fulfils his expectations that he provides ‘organized, orchestrated, changed and alienated… added some parts, expanded phrases, and subjected striking solos, often… following the feeling of the structure as well as the composer’s purpose’.