Andreas Wildenhain

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Andreas Wildenhain (born October 4, 1965 in Berlin ) is a German jazz musician and composer ( electric guitar , composition ).

Live and act

Wildenhain began to play the guitar autodidactically at the age of 15. From 1988 to 1993 he studied at the "Hogeschool voor de Kunsten" in Utrecht with Eef Albers and Marcel Karreman. In 1993 Andreas Wildenhain received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston , Massachusetts. The focus of the scholarship was "jazz performance" and "jazz composition". During this time he had u. a. Opportunity to work with instructors Brett Willmott and Rick Peckham. In 2000 he was commissioned by the University of Dortmund to write a jazz composition for a big band. The composition for the millennium celebrations at Dortmund University combined jazz music from various eras with contemporary hip-hop .

Andreas Wildenhain worked for a long time with the pianist Wolfgang Katt and dealt with new music , improvised music and their merging with forms of jazz. During this time two CDs were made, naked jazz adventures 1994 and 2001 Miles away . With Miles away and in a trio with drummer Mirko Adden, Wildenhain toured parts of Germany and performed at jazz festivals such as B. the "Ostseejazz 2000" festival in Rostock .

In 2004, Wildenhain processed his impressions from a trip to the Algerian Sahara on the CD Andreas Wildenhain + Terra Incognita - musical photographs of the Sahara whose compositional style could be described as “ folk imaginaire ”. This style goes back to the Lyon musician collective Association à la Recherche d'un Folklore Imaginaire . A well-known figure from this collective is the clarinetist Louis Sclavis . For the CD presentation, Andreas Wildenhain received support from the renowned saxophonist Charlie Mariano .

From 2006 to 2010 Andreas Wildenhain worked with the German / Turkish singer Nic Koray and the drummer Mirko Adden on a CD and concert program in the field of indie pop / folk / alternative rock.

Since 2010 he has attended regular training courses on algorithmic composition and electronic music in Paris at the IRCAM Institute (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique). Influenced by these seminars and the encounter with the Spanish composer Hèctor Parra, he began to be interested in the electronic music of artists such as Autechre , as well as the work of contemporary composers such as Kaija Saariaho , Chaya Czernowin and Alberto Posadas .

In 2015 he presented his studies on music and mathematics "The Sonification of Fractals" as part of the Herner Series, Art in Construction. During this concert lecture he examined non-linear arithmetic equations and asked himself whether and to what extent higher mathematical analysis and its computer-controlled processing could contain interesting musical potential for musicians and composers.

In 2016 his solo CD "You Promised Me, ..." was released, an instrumental CD with compositions ranging from jazz to rock, on which he recorded all the instruments himself.

An important focus of his work for Andreas Wildenhain is teaching popular rock, pop and jazz styles, both in the form of private lessons and supplemented by workshops at adult education centers and music schools or the "preparatory course for jazz" at the "Open Jazz House School Cologne" . Since 2006 he has been organizing a newcomer festival for bands of his students to give these young musicians the opportunity to have their first live experience and to provide them with a springboard for further performances and CD recordings.

Discography

  • 1994: CD Katt-Wildenhain Quartet: Naked Jazz Adventures , (Music in Motion) Stefan Werni ; acoustic bass and Bernd Gremm; drums, Wolfgang Katt; piano.
  • 2000: CD Katt-Wildenhain-Adden Trio: Sampler "Ostseejazz 2000" (published by the Rostock Jazz Festival, live recording)
  • 2001: CD Katt-Wildenhain-Adden Trio: Miles Away (Music in Motion), Wolfgang Katt; piano, Mirko Adden; drums.
  • 2004: CD Andreas Wildenhain + Terra Incognita - musical photographs of the Sahara (Crecycle Music / Jazznet.com), André Nendza ; bass, Christoph Hillmann ; drums & percussion, Johannes Lemke; saxophone, clarinet.
  • 2009 CD Nic Koray & Band: “Traveler” (47 Records), Nic Koray; vocals, Mirko Adden; drums, Jörg Regner; bass, Andreas Wildenhain; guitars and loops
  • 2016 CD Andreas Wildenhain "You Promised Me, ..." (Wildenhainmusik)

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personal data
SURNAME Wildenhain, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin