Now over 80 years old, the ever-energetic HK Gruber has become an integral part of the music scene, and not only in Austria. As a composer, chansonnier and music educator with constructive depth and his distinctive, ironical jokes, he unfailingly amazes, moves and evokes laughter in his audiences, in a manner far removed from contrived, calculated, contemporary musical art. His genre-spanning works are audible, vibrant journeys through the incredible diversity of music history, thus shaping his own, entirely unmistakable style. In Frank Dupree and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, he finds his ideal partners, who skillfully realise this distinctive musical language.