November: In addition to preparing for the recording session of his new jazz orchestra album in beginning of 2026, Reini received a call from the RTV Big Band Ljubljana asking him to join them as a drummer. The band's 80th anniversary concert was celebrated with guest soloist Chris Potter , who had arranged his music especially for big band. -------- September: Reini conducted the Peter Lenz Jazz Orchestra featuring Efrat Alony . Peter composed and arranged the music and pl

I was asked to arrange and orchestrate the music of Janko Novoselič and it was great fun to put his composition into new "Jazz Orchestra-clothes". Since few years Janko is the drummer of Croatian Radiotelevision Jazz Orchestra (HRT Bigband) in Zagreb. The concert took place in end of April and was broadcasted on HRT3. ----- October 2024 After ten years it was a huge pleasure to be back again with longest existing Bigband in Austria: Lungau Bigband. We played some of my new c

Here is some highlites of my work as drummer and composer & arranger in 2023: February, June & September: steady gigs with Ed Partyka...

Here is some highlites of my work as drummer and composer & arranger in 2022: March: I was invited to perform my music with Jazz Dock...

Last season I took the drum seat of Porgy&Bess stageband in Vienna. It was much fun to perform music by Leonhard Skorupa, who was...

My arrangement of "Hold Mig Tæt", a song of danish musician Lau Højen for TV2 Christmas Show 2020.

Shortly before summer I was touring with "Morten Ramsbøl´s True North", presenting his new record for which I arranged his music for Jazz...

After playing and being on the road with different projects (i.e. D.Helbock3 in Malaysia + India or V.Veneman 10 at "Jazzwerkstatt...

On december 7th I received the prestigious "Outstanding Artist Award 2017" from "The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery...

Besides playing gigs, I am heading for a special project: arranging tunes for chamber orchestra (on period instruments) + hammond organ...