Johannes Faber (musician)

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Johannes Faber (born November 7, 1952 in Munich ) is a German jazz trumpeter and composer who has also been an opera singer and actor for several years .

He completed his trumpet studies in Munich, Graz and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He played with Konstantin Wecker , Wolfgang Dauner , Dusko Goykovich , Sal Nistico , Mal Waldron , among others . As a solo trumpeter, arranger and composer, he was a member of the Südfunk-Tanzorchester Stuttgart (under the direction of Erwin Lehn ) from 1980 to 1990 and then worked in the NDR Big Band . Between 1990 and 1998 he was a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . In 2012 he became professor at the “Conservatorio Nicolò Paganini” in Genoa.

At the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater he played the "Hias" and composed the music for the play of the same name. He was the speaker in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and in 1999 the role of Sarastro in Mozart's Magic Flute. In 2000 he launched the “Jazz im Gärtnerplatz” series. The jazz ballet "4" was created in collaboration with Philip Taylor, for which he composed the music and also performed on stage.

He can be heard on several CD recordings, played in the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble from 1983 and founded the formation "Consortium" in 1985, in which u. a. Billy Cobham played. In 1985 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize together with Joerg Reiter .

His son Christof appears under the name Joachim Germany .

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SURNAME Faber, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter, composer, opera singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany