Viktor Gernot - A Night Before Christmas

Viktor Gernot - A Night Before Christmas

Piano: Prof. Aaron Wonesch

A song evening in celebration of the pre-Christmas season featuring Christmas songs and Advent stories and satires. Curated, compiled, and performed by Austria's grandmaster of Christmas concerts, Viktor Gernot. Accompanied on piano by his friend and long-time musical partner, the brilliant master of all 88 keys, Prof. Aaron Wonesch.

Since the early 1990s, Viktor Gernot has been performing swinging Advent concerts. Starting from small clubs like Roter Engel, through the truly legendary performance series in all federal states, at the Kabarett Simpl and later at Casanova Vienna, to the Ronacher Vienna, and even the Stadthalls in Graz and Vienna. Previously with Viktor Gernot's Best Friends, his long-standing band. Always with unmistakable, original arrangements of an exclusive selection of songs from the Great American Christmas Songbook, mixed with carefully chosen poems and stories, presented in the famous tone of the protagonist. Often copied, never matched.

In all these projects, Aaron has been an indispensable pianist. And so, the two come together in December 2026 to interpret the swinging, jazzy, and sometimes balladic songs together. The enthusiasm and love with which Viktor Gernot first heard "White Christmas" in the Hollywood film 'Holiday Inn' is the foundation of this concert night. His first LP under the Christmas tree was once Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas.' Over the decades that followed, his enthusiasm has developed into true expertise and mastery through countless concerts and the study of Christmas literature, both literary and musical.

A Night Before Christmas. Allow yourself to be transported and enchanted by Viktor Gernot and Aaron Wonesch. And Keep On Swingin'!