Amirkasra Zandian, born in 1985 in Teheran, grew up in a musician family.

His father, Amirhossein Zandian, a magnificent Violinist, Kamancheh-player & composer, his uncle Amir Babak Rokni, master of the Tombak, impressed him already in his childhood. He started playing Tombak at the age of 5 & this decision changed his life.

Today Amirkasra lives in Vienna where he visited the school & has gone to university.

Meeting Nariman Hodjaty, the master of the Persian lute named "Taar", becomes the turning point of his musical career. Sharing music extended not only Amirkasras world of experience, but also connected him deeper with his musical roots. By many years of cooperation the both have become an inseparable musical duet of the persian classical music.

In 2010 Amirkasra got to know Oliver Steger, a brilliant double-bass player. This date is the birth of the project S.O.D.A. Together with the singer Sarah Lisa Bidner and keyboarder Dieter Stemmer they are going to present thier first album in 2012.

As a Percussionist, above all as a Tombak/Daf player Amirkasra is involved in numerous Worldmusic-Projects. He is a creative soloist as well as a loyal Percussionist in ensembles. He himself sees the highest art in the mutual musical communication, hence, his musical sensitiveness is an enrichment for European / Persian ensembles.

Kim Gordon
Thurston Moore
Lee Ranaldo
Steve shelley
Mark Ibold

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.


----------------------------------------------------------------
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

http://www.facebook.com/gerdhermannortler
http://www.facebook.com/gerdhermannortler.music
http://twitter.com/g_h_ortler
g.h.ortler@chello.at
----------------------------------------------------------------

A symbiosis of Pop, Rock and Electronic. 22Lights, the Viennese band, whose music has rough edges but never loses its shine.
The 9 songs from their upcoming album „Gold“ are bursting with energy and full of soul, honesty and authenticity. A package with a powerful and at the same time charming female voice, big drumbeats, pulsating bass grooves and a bracing sound mixture between synths and phat guitar riffs.

Wiener Soul seit 2006.

http://shop.5achterl.at/

https://itunes.apple.com/at/artist/5-8erl-in-ehrn/id377187910



(g) Alexander Wallner
(b) Stephan Kössler
(d) Lukas Fellner

Find us on Facebook: 
http://de-de.facebook.com/triadsounds
or Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMU93wLaEcg&list=PL6E7CBBE603E97815&feature=plpp_play_all

TRIAD is following