Ausklang I

Leonkoro Quartet
Musicbanda Franui
David Helbock´s Random/Control feat. Filippa Gojo

Ausklang the autumn festival of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, which has opened every season since 2024, will enter its third edition in 2026. Curator Andreas Schett once again brings together artists from a wide range of musical genres for theFinish in Erl: classical music meets folk music, jazz, pop, world music and more. The resulting moments of surprise through unexpected musical sequences are intentional.

The squad of top representatives of their respective genres, who gather in Erl, opens the young and internationally very successful Leonkoro Quartet from Berlin. The jazz pianist from Vorarlberg David Helbock makes a guest appearance with his project Random/Control, in which a singer, alphorn, other woodwind instruments and improvisation on the grand piano create an exciting mixture.

Always involved in the interaction is the Musicbanda Franui. Together with their creative head Andreas Schett, the "local heroes" will once again take on the role of musical hosts.

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Team

Leonkoro Quartet

The Leonkoro Quartet was founded in Berlin in 2019 by brothers Jonathan and Lukas Schwarz, along with Emiri Kakiuchi and Mayu Konoe, and is one of the most sought-after ensembles of the younger generation. The quartet has already made several successful debuts at renowned concert halls and festivals, such as the Salzburg Festival, and has received numerous awards and prizes. “Leonkoro” means “lionheart” in Esperanto and alludes to Astrid Lindgren’s children’s book about two brothers. In addition to studying chamber music with Heime Müller (Artemis Quartet) at the Lübeck University of Music, the quartet studied with Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) at the Chamber Music Institute of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid from 2020 to 2025. Since the 2025–26 season, the Leonkoro Quartet has been presenting the “string.” series at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Beginning in September 2026, the ensemble will serve as Associate Artists at Wigmore Hall in London for five years.

Musicbanda Franui

Franui ist der Name einer Almwiese im Osttiroler Dorf Innervillgraten, in dem der Großteil der Musiker:innen der gleichnamigen Musicbanda aufgewachsen ist. Franui spielt seit 1993 in nahezu unveränderter Besetzung und ist bei vielen Festivals und Veranstaltern zu Gast, u. a. im Wiener Konzerthaus, am Burgtheater, bei den Salzburger und Bregenzer Festspielen, an der Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, bei den Münchner Opernfestspielen, in der Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, der Philharmonie de Paris und am Schauspielhaus Zürich. Mit seinen Neuinterpretationen der Lieder von Schubert, Schumann, Brahms und Mahler wurde das Ensemble weitum bekannt. Es versteht sich als „Umspannwerk zwischen Klassik, Volksmusik, Jazz und zeitgenössischer Kammermusik“. Die Musiker:innen arbeiten häufig mit herausragenden Bühnenpartner:innen zusammen, u. a. mit dem Bassbariton Florian Boesch, dem Puppenspieler Nikolaus Habjan, dem Wienerlied-Duo Die Strottern und dem Kabarett-Duo Maschek.

David Helbock´s Random/Control feat. Filippa Gojo

David Helbock, born in Vorarlberg in 1984, completed his concert piano studies at the Feldkirch Conservatory in 2005. In addition, from 2000 to 2008, he studied with New York jazz pianist Peter Madsen, with whom he founded the Austrian Syndicate project in 2023. He received further training from Fuat Kent. In 2009, he founded the group Random/Control, a trio of musicians from Vorarlberg that has performed in numerous concerts around the world. Their trademark is the wide variety of instruments they play. Andreas Schweigl plays the clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophones, and flutes, as well as singing. Johannes Bär plays the sousaphone, tuba, trombone, trumpet, alphorn, didgeridoo, beatbox, and drums. Inspired by this diversity of sound possibilities, David Helbock—who focuses on piano and some percussion—has set poems by William Blake, Emily Dickinson, and others to music. The trio has invited Vorarlberg jazz singer Filippa Gojo to perform these interpretations. Gojo studied in Cologne and was the winner of the New German Jazz Prize in 2015.