Achim Fink

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Achim Fink (1980)

Achim Fink (born October 5, 1954 in Engers near Neuwied ) is a German musician who is active in the fields of jazz, rock, pop and theater music. He plays the trombone , bass trumpet, euphonium, tenor horn and tuba or sousaphone .

Live and act

Fink began as a brass musician in the local band and initially completed an apprenticeship. Through the second educational path he obtained the technical college entrance qualification and began studying classical trombone with Vinko Globokar at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in 1973 . In the early 1980s he performed nationally with No Nett and was one of the initiators of the JazzHausSchule . Fink took part in the world premiere of The Black Rider at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . He also worked as a theater musician at the theaters in Bonn, Cologne, Berlin, Dortmund, Koblenz and Düsseldorf. He founded the Trio Finküberthurm and played in Norbert Stein's Pata Masters , in Frank Köllges Padlt Noidlt , with Hugo Read and with the Soul Cats .

In 1994 he founded the wind quartet Talking Horns with the two woodwind players Andreas Gilgenberg and Bernd Winterschladen and tuba player Joachim Gellert . On behalf of the Goethe Institute, they played in Madagascar, Rwanda, Gabon, Cameroon, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Yemen and Egypt. With Martin Stankowski he developed the “Klangstätten”, musical city explorations, during which many people could experience the city of Cologne in an unusual way at unusual times. In 2011 he played with the pianist Martin Kübert at the Jazz Bliss festival in Rangoon . In 2013 Westpark Music released the duo album Jazz Bliss .

Discographic notes

  • Finküberthurm (1990, with Martin Kübert, Heiko Thurm)
  • Pata Horns New Archaic Music (1990, with Norbert Stein, Andreas Gilgenberg, Joachim Gellert)
  • Pata Horns Talking People (1992, with Norbert Stein, Andreas Gilgenberg, Joachim Gellert)
  • Talking Horns Fisch im Wasser (1996, with Bernd Winterschladen, Andreas Gilgenberg, Joachim Gellert and Jaki Liebezeit )
  • Talking Horns Songs for Caeciliae (1999 with Bernd Winterschladen, Andreas Gilgenberg, Joachim Gellert)
  • Talking Horns Born to Be Horn (2008, with Bernd Winterschladen, Andreas Gilgenberg, Stephan Schulze )
  • Talking Horns St. Ankowski & the four confused shepherds (2012, with Martin Stankowski, Bernd Winterschladen, Andreas Gilgenberg, Stephan Schulze)
  • Tian at Al Lost & Found (2012 with Christian "Tian" Korthals, Christoph Siegenthaler, Angel Rubio, Ben Tai Trawinski, Tobias Möller)
  • FinKübert Jazz Bliss (2013 with Martin Kübert)

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