While studying Jazz at the Conservatory in Vienna he felt bored by the idea of playing standards most ofthe time, so he founded this new group to realize his ideas. In 2008 the band was awarded a scholarship from the Konservatorium Wien University where the other members were also studying at thattime. This scholarship enabled them to record and release their first album in the spring of 2008. From then on the band played concerts not only in Austria but more and more frequently in Germany -in front of excited audiences, as their outstanding reviews reveal. In January 2013 they released their second album In Search Of The Red Thread. The following release shows led them beside Austria and Germanyfor the first time also to Poland and the Czech Republic.

The intent of the music of Maohl’s GIFT is mainly to transport energy and emotions so even when things sound sophisticated, the band is still createing music more from the gut than from the brain -and while doing so, they are often playing with great intensity. Markus Ohler’s music is not merely a mixture of many different styles, although the stylistic diversityof the musicians has led to atrulyindividual “band sound”. And when the band goes on stage, it goes without saying that you can see them work and sweat, because there is really something happening – a unified band creating musictogether!

Maohl's GIFT are

Markus "Maohl" Ohler | alto & baritone saxophone

HP Freudenthaler | guitar

Bernd Klug | double bass

Hubert Bründlmayer | drums