Patrick Dunst, Austria

Patrick Dunst writes, plays, teaches and lives music. He lives in Vienna, but has at least one suitcase in Graz, where he was born in 1983. He studied saxophone jazz in Graz and later in Vienna, and from 2014 Classical South Indian singing at the Chennai Institute for Music of the World in India, and then finally Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths College in London. He plays a variety of woodwind instruments in various big bands and ensembles, collaborates on stage productions and has since 2015 headed the die Jazzwerkstatt Graz workshop. His projects include Virtues, Atma, Tribal Dialects (with Grilli Pollheimer among others). www.patrickdunst.at