THOMAS LEEB in concert

Datum: Mi, 07.03.2018 um 20:00
Veranstalter: Verein Innenhofkultur
Ort: New Amsterdam Bar, Badgasse 7, Klagenfurt

Eintritt: 10 € | StudentInnen 5 €

Thomas Leeb picked up the guitar for the same reason as every thirteen-year-old boy: he wanted to meet girls. He soon fell in love with the instrument, played his first solo concert at the age of fifteen and released his first acoustic guitar album at seventeen. Leeb is a frequent performer at concerts and festivals in Asia, the Americas and Europe and has been featured in numerous guitar magazines all over the world. Every year, he teaches workshops and master classes in universities and colleges and his album “Desert Pirate” was voted one of the essential albums of the last twenty years by Acoustic Guitar Magazine.

His peculiar guitar style owes as much to percussive techniques as traditional fingerstyle guitar. What sets Thomas Leeb apart from some of his contemporaries is his ability to make pyrotechnics serve the music. Three years studying West African traditional music give him a sense of timing and groove that is unusual in a guitarist. All this has earned him a loyal world-wide following and influential fans such as Eric Roche who was his guitar teacher, “for about five minutes and then I heard him play”, Jon Gomm awarded him “ten out of ten Gomms” and Guthrie Govan who thinks that “what Thomas does on an acoustic guitar probably shouldn’t be legal.”

Jolly good. Lovely playing, lovely sound.
– David Gilmour

10/10 Gomms
– Jon Gomm

What Thomas does on an acoustic probably shouldn’t be legal
– Guthrie Govan

I was his teacher for about five minutes and then I heard him play
– Eric Roche

Thomas is probably my favourite percussive guitar player.
– Newton Faulkner

Termine

am Sa, 13.09.2025 um 20:00

Lesung | Mein Tinnitus der Hochkultur – Mladen Savić

Villa For Forest, Viktringer Ring 21, 9020 Klagenfurt "Mit scharfer Feder, satirischem Witz und nötigem Ernst führt Savić uns auf eine Reise durch die Widersprüche der modernen Welt. Seine Poesie, immerzu auch persönlich, ist auf eine erfrischende Art politisch: die Ohren schärfend für den falschen Singsang unserer Zeit, und Augen öffnend für die Möglichkeit echter Menschwerdung. Was der Mensch brauche, sei zärtlicher Umgang, so der Autor, und zwar auf vielen Ebenen.

Seine Verse schwingen zwischen herber Kritik und feinsinniger Melancholie. Seine Gedichte, unzeitgemäß, wie sie sind, dringen dabei in die tieferen Schichten menschlicher Erfahrung vor und geben der Suche nach Wahrheit und Sinn eine kraftvolle Stimme. So lässt sich dem allgegenwärtigen Lärm der Gegenwart, dem Tinnitus jener hohen Kultur voller niedriger Motive, wenigstens literarisch für ein Weilchen entfliehen.

Im Rahmen einer öffentlichen Lesung in der Villa For Forest am 13. September 2025 wird Savić auch einige seiner unveröffentlichten politischen und andere Gedichte zum Besten geben und mit dem Publikum in Dialog treten. Ein bunter, polemisch-lustiger Abend ist zu erwarten!"

Eintritt: Freiwillige Spende