{"id":109,"date":"2016-04-18T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T07:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:57:04","slug":"wolfgang-wehner-drums","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/?page_id=109","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Wehner\/Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-1-_DSC0266-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-1-_DSC0266-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-1-_DSC0266-768x744.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-1-_DSC0266-587x569.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-1-_DSC0266.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wolfgang Wehner was born on May 16, 1963 in Vienna. At 13, he had his first<\/p>\n<p>engagement as drummer at an evening ballroom dance with a special police<\/p>\n<p>permit, as he was still underage.<\/p>\n<p>From 1982-1987, Wolfgang studied jazz drums at the Conservatory of Vienna<\/p>\n<p>with Fred M\u00fchlhofer. At 20, he toured the USA for the first time. As a<\/p>\n<p>member of the &#8222;Swingtime Big Band&#8220;, he received the &#8222;Best Sound of Glenn<\/p>\n<p>Miller Worldwide&#8220; award on their US- tour in 1998 (Atlanta).<\/p>\n<p>With the act &#8222;Jazz Gitti &amp; Her Disco Killers&#8220;, he received 3 x gold, 2 x<\/p>\n<p>platinum, 1 x double platinum from 1987 &#8211; 1997, the World Music award in<\/p>\n<p>1992 in Monte Carlo for the best selling artist in 1991 in Austria and<\/p>\n<p>toured through Asia and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Other professional engagements include: Wolfgang Lindner Big Band, Vereingte<\/p>\n<p>B\u00fchnen Vienna Orchestra , Elly Wright, Hannes Kottek Quintet, Harry Stoyka<\/p>\n<p>Quartet, Beat4Feet and the drum chair in musicals such as: Chicago, Jesus<\/p>\n<p>Christ Superstar, Hair, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jekyll &amp; Hyde, Elizabeth<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>His teaching credits (drums, percussion) include 7 years at the Franz<\/p>\n<p>Schubert Conservatory Vienna and 3 years at the Gymnasium \u00d6denburger Str.,<\/p>\n<p>1210 Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>He is the founder of &#8222;jazztrio.at&#8220; (2013); Thomas Barth (p), Christoph<\/p>\n<p>Petschina (b), Johannes Strasser (b) have been permanent members since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfgang Wehner has also been very active in his charitable work for Tibet<\/p>\n<p>and Nepal. He founded the Austria-Tibetan Friendship society and served as<\/p>\n<p>technical director (light, sound, internet streaming) for the tour of HH<\/p>\n<p>14th Dalai Lama in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfgang Wehner was born on May 16, 1963 in Vienna. At 13, he had his first engagement as drummer at an evening ballroom dance with a special police permit, as he was still underage. From 1982-1987, Wolfgang studied jazz drums at the Conservatory of Vienna with Fred M\u00fchlhofer. At 20, he toured the USA for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jazztrio.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}