Strong international performance background, with experience serving with symphony and opera orchestras throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.
•	An accomplished brass instrument teacher and mentor, with experience training nationally award winning students. 
•	Strong background in developing and shaping educational brass, percussion and jazz programs.

Recorded music for leading motion picture companies such as Paramount Pictures, Universal Film and 20th Century Fox.
•	Performed in back-up orchestras for artists such as: 
 
	Shirley Bassey
	Cilla Black
	Danny La Rue
	Harry Secombe
	Henry Mancini 	           
	Caterina Valente
	Riki May
	David Bowie
	Clark Terry
	Sal Nestico
	Metallica S&M 
...and others.

Hi everyone!  Hope you enjoy all the new music here on Soundcloud that I wrote in the last couple months. All available at TomKubis.com. and at Ejazzlines.com
Also, on almost all my charts, solo changes are in every section so somebody always gets to play. 
BTW 
There are a lot of sax solos on the demo tracks here cause that's what I play. I did get a little help here from Alex Iles and Wayne Bergeron on some of the demos.
FYI these are all done in Logic Pro using "Ivory" Piano for the piano and the rest Logic instruments. I write so much stuff that I don't always get a chance to get it performed so thats why I do the demos the way I do. I'm sure you will get the idea of how the charts sound from the demos.
If you are a band director and don't have time to wade through all the music, have your students go through the charts and tell you what ones they might recommend.
ALL THE CHARTS ARE NOW DOWNLOADABLE so you can get them right away at tomKubis.com.   Take care and enjoy the music!  Tom Kubis

GERD HERMANN ORTLER – BIOGRAPHY
Gerd Hermann Ortler was born in 1983 in South Tyrol (Italy).
He studied saxophone at the "Konservatorium Wien Private University" and jazz composition at the "University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz" with Ed Partyka. He also received composition lessons from Bob Brookmeyer.
Ortler lives in Vienna and works as a composer, conductor and arranger for various ensembles and institutions in the international jazz and classical music field. Thus, numerous works were composed/arranged for example for the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, HR Big Band, HR Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Metropole Orchestra, Südtirol Jazz Festival, Vienna Trombone Ensemble, Partyka Brass, Wiener Konzerthaus (Concertino for Joshua Redman), Jazzwerkstatt Vienna, Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, Phil-Blech, Transart Festival, United Stages Bolzano, and many more
Ortler is a lecturer of composition and arrangement at the "University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Gerd Hermann Ortler is the founder and conductor of the GHO Orchestra, which performs his compositions and consists of musicians from the international jazz scene, as well as musicians from major classical orchestras. The debut album "Hermannology" was released in 2011. Furthermore, in 2011 the GHO Orchestra was the stage band of the Viennese "Jazz & Music Club Porgy & Bess".
In his compositions Ortler especially focuses on the development and processing of images and textures, which he sets via a cross-genre musical language into a narrative context, in order to break up sector-specific associations and expectations, and to bring elements of contemporary music and jazz together.
Gerd Hermann Ortler is a two times winner of the "Down Beat Student Music Awards" awarded by the U.S. Downbeat Magazine (2010 Winner/2012 Outstanding Performance). In 2010 he was the only European musician to receive this prize.
In addition, he also received a talent scholarship from the City of Graz (2008) and the State Scholarship for Composition (2011) by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.


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Gerd Hermann Ortler, MA
Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Musician,
Lecturer of Composition (Vienna Music Institute,
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
Braunschweiggasse 14/15
1130 Vienna
Austria

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Born on july 4, 1960 saxophonist / flutist Heinrich von Kalnein is one of the most high- profile jazz artists of today’s Austrian and German scene. After graduating with honors from the University of Music Graz, Austria in 1987 he continued his studies with David Liebman and Oliver Lake among others. He developed a very distinct musical profile by taking his melodic concept and jazz roots into the realm of worldbeat, free improv and electronic music.

In the 1990ies he toured extensively all over Europe with his own HvK Group (among others feat. French guitarist Nguyên Lê) as well as with the Indo-Jazz Worldmusic Project ‚Free Winds’ (feat. Shakti’s Selvaganesh Vinayakram). With the latter group he also toured India and Sri Lanka.
With JBBG – JAZZ BIGBAND GRAZ, which he is (co-) leading since 2003, he performed a.o. with the vocal groups ‚Take Six’‚ ‚The New York Voices’ as well as with singers Jon Hendricks, Dianne Shur and Kurt Elling. With their CD ‚Joys & Desires’ (2005) featuring the work of drummer John Hollenbeck and vocalist Theo Bleckmann they got critical acclaim worldwide, which led to performances at the 2006 IAJE– conference in New York as well as the Northsea Jazzfestival. With their 2008 production 'Electric Poetry & Lo-Fi Cookies' blending the worlds of electronic music and jazz they developed a sound of their very own performing all over Europe. Their latest CD ‚Urban Folktales’ was released by the prestigious German label ACT records in 2012.
In 2008 he founded his new trio KAHIBA featuring Swiss drummer / electronic musician Gregor Hilbe and Austrian accordionist / pianist Christian Bakanic. With this very unique band he released three highly acclaimed CD’s. 2014 he started a duo with pianist Michael Abene.

Additionally he worked as a musical producer and bandmember with the Vienna Art Orchestra performing worldwide. Currently he is living in Graz and holds a position as a professor for saxophone at the Jazz institute of the University of Music Graz KUG.

Performances also with Iain Ballamy, Django Bates, Carla Bley, Bob Brookmeyer, Jay Clayton, Wayne Darling, Gil Evans, Heiner Goebbels, Jerry Granelli, Doug Hammond, the Peter Herbolzheimer Bigband, Peter Herborn, Marc Johnson, Sheila Jordan, Nguyên Lê, Rene Lussier, Charlie Mariano, Bob Mintzer, Phil Minton, Glen Moore, Wolfgang & Christian Muthspiel, Simon Nabatov, Ed Neumeister, Marc Ribot, Paquito d'Rivera, Steve Swallow, Dave Taylor and the Austrian National Public Radio symphony (ORF Radiosymphonieorchester) among others.

Festival appearances: Jazzfest Berlin (D), Jazzfest Bonn (D), Bolzano (I), Bremen jazzahead (D), Hofheim (D), Snow Jazz Gastein (A), Gdynia (PL), Guimaraes (P), Graz (A), Hamburg Elbjazz (D), Lisboa (P), Madrid (E), Magdeburg (D), Maribor (Slo), New Delhi (IND), New York (USA), Ploiesti (Ro), Saalfelden (A), Salzau Jazz Baltica (D), Salzburg Jazzherbst (A), Sibiu (Ro), St.Ingbert (D), St. Petersburg (RUS), Strasbourg (F), Usti Nad Labem (CZ), Trencin (SK), Vienne (F), Warsaw (PL), Weilheim (D), Wien (A), Wiesbaden (D), Wiesen (A), Wroclaw (PL).

„One of the most polished saxophonists of the Austrian scene, Heinrich von Kalnein knows how to produce both high impact jazz and masterful lines with a lyrical feel. Warmly recommended!..."
Ljubisa Tosic - DER STANDARD (A)

Von Kalnein ... lauscht in die Regionen der Welt, erfindet eingängige, folkinspirierte Melodien – und bleibt doch Jazzimprovisator... eine originelle, anregende musikalische Sprache.
Berthold Klostermann – FONOFORUM (D)

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