Herbert Pixner Project

He has been described as the Jimi Hendrix of folk music or the Frank Zappa of the Alps. He has been compared to Piazzola and Paganini and yet the South Tyrolean-born musician has created and developed a completely unmistakable musical style over the years. We are talking about Herbert Pixner, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and namesake of the Herbert Pixner Project.

For the 2025 tour, the Herbert Pixner Project has been expanded and, in addition to the usual line-up of Manuel Randi (guitars), Werner Unterlercher (bass) and Heidi Pixner (harp), Alessandro Trebo will once again be ‘on tour’ on the grand piano. The Herbert Pixner Project is thus presenting a new concert programme for the most renowned concert halls throughout the German-speaking world to mark its 20th stage anniversary.

The Herbert Pixner Project has been one of the most successful representatives of ‘progressive folk music’ for two decades now. With playful, lascivious gentleness, powerful rock and blues riffs, brilliant technique, bold improvisation and borrowings from tango, flamenco and jazz, they have been delighting audiences for years. They sound minimalist, rugged, dreamy, but always authentic. They weave a diverse tapestry of sound, there is room for gentle melancholy and also for outbursts that stop at nothing. Even after 2000 (!) sold-out concerts, Herbert Pixner and his congenial musicians continue to electrify their audience with their ecstatic joy of playing at every concert.