Günter Heinz
Günter Heinz (* 1954 in Zeitz ) is a trombonist (alto and tenor trombone), flautist of the new improvisation music and composer of (mainly) electroacoustic music .
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Günter Heinz studied mathematics in Halle , then music in Dresden and Berlin . First he worked as a mathematician at various universities, in 1983 he received his doctorate in this subject. Since 1987 he has been working as a freelance musician and has participated in the world premiere of numerous contemporary compositions, played concerts with improvised music as well as radio and CD recordings in Germany (organic music, phonector), Switzerland (For4Ears) and the USA (ALEA).
In 1989 Günter Heinz founded his first (freely improvising) group, the Günter Heinz Quartet , with Jürgen Kupke , Jürgen Kurz and Gottfried Röszler . The recording of November 9, 1989, a concert in the Babylon Film Theater (at the time the Wall came down and only a few 100 meters away) was published by the Bad Alchemy label .
In 1990 he founded the group alea with Wilfried Staufenbiel and Gottfried Röszler , with which he played compositions from the environment of John Cage as well as his own pieces. Personal encounters with John Cage and Christian Wolff , a little later with Vinko Globokar , as well as with the Canadian performer and composer Malcolm Goldstein , who played several concerts as a guest with alea , shaped his further musical orientation .
In 1992/93 he was a guest composer at the Electronic Studio of the Music Academy of the City of Basel . He also worked with the Chamber Ensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Neue Horizonte Bern and SEM-Ensemble New York. His compositions were performed a. a. in Berlin, Moscow, Madrid and USA; Heinz also had teaching positions in Malta and Sardinia. In 2007 he joined with Max E. Keller (piano) and Jacques Widmer (drums) at the Festival free improvised music in Dresden, in the same year on the Cute Music Festival for free improvised music in Bremen with drummer Kace merchant and the dancer Iris Sputh on .
In the field of free jazz he played a. a. with Bernd Köppen , Kent Carter , Bill Elgart , Michael Lythel , Agustí Fernández , Pavel Fajt , Liz Allbee and George Cremaschi , with the Dresden musicians Hartmut Dorschner , Matthias Macht , Andreas "Scotty" Böttcher and Günter "Baby" Sommer from the Improfon group with Agnes Ponizil , Sabine Grüner and Jörg Ritter , the Neue Dresdner Kammermusik and the Saxon Improvisation Ensemble . Since 2000 he has been working in a trio with the Belgian pianist Fred Van Hove and the American drummer Lou Grassi , and in 2007 in a duo with the pianist Veryan Weston . With the drummer Ernst Bier he forms the duo DrumBone .
He is the artistic director of the Free Improvised Music Festival in the Blauen Fabrik Dresden, which he founded in Berlin in 1992. On the album Live in Wuppertal , Günter Heinz played in a freely improvised duo or trio with the drummer Lou Grassi and the guitarist Peter A. Worringer . In 2002 he played in a duo with the French bass trombonist Thierry Madiot . In 2003 he released the album Trombone on MARS with the formation European Powerbook Ensemble ; The Powerbook Ensemble (from electronics engineers Jochen Bohnes and Wolfgang Heininger ) uses the Italian MARS (Musical Acoustic Research System) system, couples it with Macintosh Powerbooks and enables sound transformations in real time.
The book / CD production "Günter Heinz" was published by Peter-Segler-Verlag in 2011 with photographs by Hans-Joachim Maquet and contributions by Mathias Bäumel, Ildefonso Rodriguez and Peter Segler . The CD presents previously unpublished excerpts from concerts in the church in Kleinwaltersdorf (Saxony), which were performed between 2008 and 2010, with Lou Grassi , Bill Elgart , George Cremaschi , Pavel Fajt and Sanford Hinderlie .
The Wetware Trombone
Günter Heinz has used this term since his stay in 1992/93 as a guest composer at the Music Academy of the City of Basel. It characterizes his special style of playing the trombone, which includes cantilenas as well as many sound surfaces he developed, right through to the use of electronic sound transformations.
In 1995 his first solo CD was released on the Swiss label FOR4EARS with the title The Wetware Trombone: Windharp ( Jason Kahn plays the drums on 3 tracks ). In 1998 Günter Heinz was the German representative at the 1st Computer Music Festival in Malta with The Wetware Trombone . Since then he has been working on his concept, often with other electronic composer-musicians such as Thomas Kessler , Jochen Bohnes , Wolfgang Heiniger , Gunnar Kristinsson , Günter Müller , Art Clay , Heribert Dorsch , Andre Bartetzki , Eric Ross , as well as the media artist Jo Siamon Salich and the dancer Frank van de Ven .
Individual evidence
- ↑ In 1996 the Dresden music journalist Mathias Bäumel wrote the article for the magazine Jazz Podium : The Wetware Trombone - Günter Heinz.
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| SURNAME | Heinz, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Time |