Aleksander Kolkowski

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Aleks (anders) Kolkowski (* 1959 in London ) is an English violinist .

Life

The son of Spanish and Russian immigrants attended the London College of Music and studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1977 violin with Clarence Mysercough and from 1978 medieval and electronic music with Michael Graubart and Hugh Davies and composition with Stanley Glasser .

From 1982 to 1985 he worked as an actor and composer, after which he directed the London Musicians Collective until 1987 . He founded The Scoop Music-Theater Compagnie in 1987 , Harbin's Bed in 1988 and the Media Luz Ensemble in 1992 . In the early 1990s he organized several multimedia projects in London before moving to Berlin in 1995 .

Create

Kolkowski is an important interpreter of contemporary music and has performed works a. a. by John Cage , Christian Wolff and Klaus Lang . In the 1980s, he also worked with rock musicians such as the new wave singer Henry Badowsky and the punk rock group The Damned .

In 1983 he founded the Ubiquity Orchestra , a group that experimented with improvised music. Since 1985 he has made a name for himself in jazz , was a member of both Tristan Honsinger's string ensemble with Louis Moholo and Tony Oxley's Celebration Orchestra and worked with partners such as Evan Parker , Phil Minton , Bill Dixon , Vladimir Tarasov , Conny Bauer , Sussan Deyhim and Sainkho Namtchylak .

In Berlin he founded the group SPOK with Rudi Mahall , Axel Dörner and Matthias Bauer and worked as an interpreter a. a. with the composers Georg Katzer , Hermann Keller , Peter Ablinger , Helmut Zapf , Nadar Mashakyeki and Richard Barrett . He has also created performances with text, dance and film such as Stage Fright (1994–98), the “horticultural drama” My Garden Makes Me Glad (since 1996) and Violin Gymnastics (since 1998).

With Matthias Bauer and Jon Rose he founded the trio The Kryonics , in which he experimented with historical-technical devices such as phonographs and gramophones and historical instruments such as the funnel violin (straw violin). In 2000 his first solo CD Portrait was released in Shellac . Kolkowski also belonged to Aki Takase's Dempa Trio .

Discography (selection)

  • Map of Moods with the Tristan Honsinger Quintet , 1996
  • Portrait in Shellac for straw violin and gramophone, 2000
  • The Kryonics , 2001
  • Vestige Vertical with Michael Vorfeld , Mike Walz , 2001
  • Nine Fragments: Dempa with Aki Takase, Tony Buck , 2002
  • Needle Curves , 2007
  • Squall Line with Ute Wassermann , 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Kolkowski, Aleksander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolkowski, Aleks (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH London