Viktor Gernot - A Night Before Christmas

Viktor Gernot - A Night Before Christmas

Piano: Prof. Aaron Wonesch

An evening of songs to celebrate the pre-Christmas season with Christmas songs and Advent tales and satires. Curated, compiled, and sung by Austria's grandmaster of Christmas concerts, Viktor Gernot. Accompanied on the 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 series of performances 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-time band. Always with unmistakable, original arrangements of an exclusive selection of songs from the Great American Christmas Songbook, mixed with selected poems and stories, presented in the famous tone of the protagonist. Often copied, never matched.

In all these projects, Aaron has been indispensable as a pianist. And so, in December 2026, the two come together to interpret the swinging, jazzy, and sometimes even balladic songs. 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 since, this 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. Let Viktor Gernot and Aaron Wonesch enchant and transport you. And Keep On Swingin’!