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Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) will host a toe-tapping evening on February 4 celebrating Ol’ Blue Eyes and others from the big band and swing era, with Tom Gaebel taking on Frank Sinatra’s greatest hits backed by special musical guests.
The concert will take place at Abdull Aziz Nasser theatre in souq Waqif at 7.30 pm.
Andreas S Weiser will be the conductor of the orchestra. He is a graduate of the Berlin University of the Arts, and was a finalist in the first annual Arturo Toscanini International Conducting Competition held in Italy in 1985. Based on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he also studied under Václav Neumann at the Czech Philharmonic (1984). One year later, he became the second conductor to the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Andreas S Weiser has conducted the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Berne Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been a guest conductor at the Opera House in Lille, Opera House in Nice, Staatstheater Kassel, the Prague State Opera, and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, in Rome, Palermo, Barcelona and Madrid (RTVE). He has recorded with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Virtuosi di Praga. He is a permanent conductor for the Hradec Králové Philharmonic and the Czech Chamber Orchestra.
Tom Gaebel is a German singer and leader of a big band named after himself. Gaebel was born on January 13, 1975 in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, into a musical family. His younger brother Denis Gäbel plays tenor saxophone in the Tom Gaebel big band. Colin Gäbel is a singer and guitarist in addition to being a TV presenter and reporter about computer games; he is a member of the rock band Mondo Kane. Gaebel started music lessons at an early age. He plays several instruments, including drums, violin, trombone, and piano. During high school, he was a member of bands, including two big bands and a rock band called Goresaw. He attended the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In October 2004, he received a major in jazz singing from the Conservatorium. After performing and singing in big bands, such as The Young Sinatras and the Tobias Kremer Big Band, he formed his own group in 2005.
His debut solo album, Introducing: Myself, was released in 2005 and became a best seller. A live DVD, Live in Concert, followed in 2006. His second album, Good Life from 2007, featured more of Gaebel’s original numbers. Don’t Wanna Dance spotlighted Gaebel expanding his style to pop and soul, with songs influenced by Motown. In 2010, he released two new albums. Music to Watch Girls By focused on the style of late 1960s easy listening ballads and uptempo numbers, and a Christmas album, Easy Christmas, which includes songs for the season written by Gaebel. In June 2010, Gaebel and his big band performed at the Sommerfest for the Federal President Christian Wulff held at Castle Bellevue in Berlin.
