28 December 2025
Jazz Night
MARLENE PENNINGER
FLORIAN REIDER
FLORIAN REIDER
5:00 – 6:30 PM and 7:30 – 9:30 PM @ The Farmhouse Resort
Sometimes it just has to be jazz. We are therefore particularly looking forward to an unforgettable evening with Award winner FLORIAN REIDER on piano and violinist MARLENE PENNINGER, who has just recorded an album with the Austrian jazz trio «Drehwerk».
MARLENE PENNINGER
Marlene Penninger, born in 1998, is an austrian violinist and composer. She was classically trained at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Conservatoire royale de Bruxelles (Erasmus) but now embraces multiple genres and styles as she merges them into her own musical language. As a key part of the string ensemble inn.wien she has been experimenting with different concert formats. Their staged concert «What on Earth!» won the 2025 YAM Award for large ensemble and will be continued in concert in 2026. Furthermore inn.wien regularily collaborates with the jazztrio Drehwerk with whom they released their first EP «Lost Inside» (2024). A very special and dear-to-heart project is the string quartet Zwischenwelten («between worlds»). Their combined goal is to find a unique voice und space for their own compositions. Artistic highlights in recent years include a scholarship for the Mozartfest Würzburg 2024 where she was working with Florian Willeitner and her Musikverein Wien debut with Matteo Haitzmann‘s as part of the Vienna Pride 2024.
FLORIAN REIDER
Florian Reider is active in many genres, including classical, jazz, and contemporary music. He is primarily a chamber musician and jazz musician and has performed in these roles at national and international festivals and competitions. Reider was a finalist in the Freiburg Jazz Piano Competition and the Langnau Jazz Nights International Piano Competition, won the Joe Zawinul Prize in 2022, and was nominated for the Jazz Newcomer Prize of the City of Innsbruck. Reider teaches piano, jazz piano, and accompaniment at the Wörgl Regional Music School and, together with Christian Spitzenstaetter, directs the Fleckl Festival in Kufstein and Bern. To date, he has collaborated with artists such as Franz Hackl, Miho Hazama, Florian Eggner, Selina Ott, Gene Pritsker, Michaela Reingruber, Isabel Karajan, Thomas Lichtenecker, and Alvaro Collao Leon.