“Stergin's Bloodmoon is a record that you just couldn’t have heard five years ago. It’s completely in the now, in the moment trying to push the boundaries of what’s possible and what can be done.“
(Tom Robinson, BBC6 Music)
“Like most of the great modern music, Austrian Vinzenz Stergin’s compositions defy genre brackets, combining elements of electronics, blues, classical and rock music. Stergin’s live set was easily the most fun performance of MENT 2017.” (God Is In The TV)
For the award-winning, published musician Vinzenz Gstrein (Stergin), the act of making music is its own reward. Growing up in the Austrian mountains, he studied classical clarinet at Mozarteum Salzburg, worked for human rights organizations in Los Angeles and Amsterdam, started a rock band and sang in choirs, before doing a Masters in composition at Trinity College of Music in London, where he still resides today.
He's a multi-instrumentalist, performer, songwriter, cross arts creator, composer and producer. He's been awarded with the first "Do It Differently Award" from Help Musicians UK for his live music project & exhibition '12 Photos 12 Tracks' - the global journey of a Polaroid turned into music. His projects have been supported by ACE England and in his most recent project & global social initiative 1Mi2 [one square mile], he turned interviews of his local community into music to embrace empathy in our communities - www.onesquaremile.eu.
Besides being an educator he also worked with world giants such as Red Bull - producing music and creatively consulting them, being lead creative for social record label InHouse records inside her Majesty's prison service or running his own music school Neuzugang Learning.