David Dornig

Guitar (Jazz & Popular Music)

Artistic & Pedagogical Education  

  • Theory, Composition & Arrangement, JAM Music Lab Private University, Master of Arts with "excellent success", 2021
  • Composition Pedagogy, Vienna Music Institute, state teaching qualification with "excellent success", 2017
  • Instrumental and vocal pedagogy (guitar), Vienna Music Institute, state teaching qualification with "excellent success", 2014
  • Jazz and popular music guitar, Vienna Music Institute, diploma with "excellent success", 2014

Teaching Experience 

  • Teacher at the JAM MUSIC LAB Private University for Jazz and Popular Music & at the Friedrich Gulda School of Music since 2021
  • Tanja Schild School of Music, electric guitar, since 2014
  • Lectures on composition at the international symposium 'Microtones: Small is Beautiful' at the Mozarteum Salzburg (2016, 2019, 2021) and at the 'miCROfest' in Zagreb (2017)

Concerts & Performances 

  • Concerts with various formations: Moers-Festival, Kick Jazz, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Kultursommer Wien, BEZAU BEATZ, Sansusi-Festival, Philharmonie Tallinn, muth, Another-Festival, Donauinselfest, Porgy&Bess, ZOOM!Festival, miCROfest Zagreb, Jazzit Novo Mesto, wuk, Jazzwerkstatt Wien Festival and many more since 2006.
  • Concert and lecture activity, CD production as well as online presence with the ensemble Dsilton as composer and 31-tone guitarist
  • Conductor and composer for 'Tage der Neuen Musik' with the Max Brand Ensemble, 2015, radio broadcast (Ö1) in January 2016

Prizes & Awards 

  • Austrian Award' at the international composition competition JAZZON 2011 with 'Equal Rides' , a serial composition for jazz quintet.
  • Winner of the talent competition Star.t 2007 with a fifteen-minute original composition.
  • Collaboration with Max Brand Ensemble, Janus Ensemble, Black Page Orchestra, Michael Mantler, Paul Gulda, Rex Richardson, Dsilton, Hexatonal, Georg Vogel, Clemens Salesny, Christoph Czech, Jörg Mikula, Oliver Steger, David Panzl, Rojin Sharafi, Daria Kinzer, David Helbock, and many others as well as the ORF.
  • Lessons/workshops with Richard Graf, Andi Manndorff, Conrad Schrenk, Peter Rom, Mike Stern, Phil Woods, Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie, Samu Gryllus, Rens Newland, Christoph Czech and many more.

Miscellaneous  

  • JAM MUSIC LAB - multi-tone and historical tuning systems and n-tol rhythms, 2014-2021, Master of Arts.
  • Development of novel multi-tone instruments (clavitones, 31-tone guitars and basses)
  • Notation and theory research on 31-tone equal temperament and adaptive re-tuning, since 2013.
  • Guitarist of the Janus Ensemble, since 2020
  • Composition commission and concert activity with the Beethoven Pocket Orchestra, 2020