A song evening on the occasion of the pre-Christmas season featuring Christmas songs and advent stories and satires. Designed, assembled, and sung by the Austrian grandmaster of Christmas concerts, Viktor Gernot. Accompanied on the piano by his friend and long-time musical companion, the brilliant master of all 88 keys, Prof. Aaron Wonesch.
Since the early 1990s, Viktor Gernot has been performing swinging Advent concerts. Starting from the small club a la Roter Engel, through the truly legendary performance series in all federal states, at the Kabarett Simpl and later in the Casanova Vienna, up to the Ronacher Vienna, or even the city halls in Graz and Vienna. Previously with Viktor Gernot's Best Friends, his long-time band. Always with unmistakable, original arrangements of the exclusive song selection from the Great American Christmas Songbook, mixed with carefully selected poems and stories, recited in the famous tone of the protagonist. Often copied, never reached.
In all these projects, Aaron has always been indispensable as a pianist. And so, the two come together now in December 2026 to jointly interpret the swinging, jazzy, and sometimes balladic songs. The enthusiasm and love with which Viktor Gernot first heard White Christmas in the Hollywood film Holiday Inn as a child is the foundation of this concert night. His first LP under the Christmas tree was once Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas'. Throughout the decades that followed, this enthusiasm has developed into true expertise and mastery through the hundreds of concerts and the study of Christmas literature, both literary and musical.
A Night Before Christmas. Allow yourself to be captivated and enchanted by Viktor Gernot and Aaron Wonesch. And Keep On Swingin'!