Annette Maye

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Annette Maye in the old pawn shop, Cologne, January 21, 2010

Annette Maye (* 1974 in Flensburg ) is a German clarinetist and musicologist. She is mainly active in the fields of world music , jazz, free improvisation and new music .

Live and act

After completing her studies in Eastern European History, Musicology and Eastern Slavonic Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , Maye studied clarinet and bass clarinet with Claudio Puntin and Frank Gratkowski at the Cologne University of Music . She also spent a few months as an Erasmus scholarship holder at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur in Paris, where she studied with Riccardo del Fra .

As a composer, she works in particular for the German-Turkish trio ensemble FisFüz , of which she is a co-founder and long-time clarinetist. Ensemble FisFüz received the SWR World Music Prize in 1998 and has released numerous CD albums. Between 2004 and 2008 she worked with the PyromanDuo with Laia Genc , whose debut CD in 2006 received a positive response from German specialist magazines. He also played with the Daniel Speer Trio , James Choice Orchestra and Banda Metafisica , the Schäl Sick Brass Band and as a guest in the United Women's Orchestra , the Alexandra Naumann Band and El Houssaine Kili .

Maye is the founder and member of the Duo Doyna (Modern Klezmer) together with the Cologne jazz guitarist Martin Schulte . She plays Egyptian music by the composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab in the Tabadoul Orchestra . In the ensemble FisFüz and in her project Annette Maye's Vinograd Express , Annette Maye also works with the internationally established Italian clarinet virtuoso Gianluigi Trovesi . She has recorded several CDs with him ( Papillons 2012, Remembering Masada 2015). She also played with Günter "Baby" Sommer (Germany), Glen Velez (USA), Arkady Shilkloper (Russia), Jean-Louis Matinier (France), Anat Cohen (Israel / USA), Gabriele Mirabassi (Italy), Kazutoki Umezu ( Japan), Giora Feidman (Israel), Mohamed Mounir (Egypt), Michel Godard (France), the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich and Noreum Machi (South Korea). She also appears as a soloist. Through numerous concerts in Europe, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, North Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea, the clarinetist is known to an international concert and festival audience. She took part in events as varied as WOMEX , the Taipei International Arts Festival , the China Shanghai International Arts Festival , the Sofia Jazz Festival or the Ankara Jazz Festival .

Maye took part in many radio productions, especially with the world music formation Schäl Sick Brass Band and the ensemble FisFüz , she appeared several times for WDR , as well as for SWR , Radio Bremen and various radio stations in Southeast Europe, North Africa and East Asia. As a stage musician, she was involved in various theater productions (including "Der Wunschpunsch" at the Schauspiel Köln , "Der Sandmann" under the direction of Robert Wilson at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ).

Annette Maye has been teaching at the Open Jazzhaus School in Cologne since 2001. She has been teaching Klezmer & World Music at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in Wuppertal since 2018 .

In 2007 she published her musicological essay on "Eric Dolphy's Italian Legacy: The Bass Clarinet Playing by Jazz Musician Gianluigi Trovesi ", which was published in the musicological online journal "Samples". Maye was accepted as an artistic member of GEDOK Cologne in the same year .

Since 2013 she has been the artistic director of the Multiphonics Festival , an international festival for creative clarinet music with an interdisciplinary focus on jazz, world music, improvised and contemporary music.

Maye lives in Cologne .

Awards

As a member of ensemble FisFüz , she was awarded the SWR World Music Prize in 1998. The PyromanDuo won 1st place in the jazz category of the Torneo Internationale Della Musica competition in Italy in 2006 . Annette Maye received the "Künstlerinnenpreis NRW Jazz" in 2016 in cooperation with the WDR Jazzpreis and the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Sound carrier (selection)

  • ensemble FisFüz: Lale - Colors Of Eurasia , Pianissimo Musik 2019
  • Clarinet Summit Clarinet Summit (2017), with Perry Robinson , Gianluigi Trovesi, Bernd Konrad , Theo Jörgensmann , Sebastian Gramss , Albrecht Maurer and Günter Sommer (Maye only plays on one piece)
  • ensemble FisFüz: Bonsai , Pianissimo Music 2016
  • Annette Maye's Vinograd Express & Gianluigi Trovesi: Remembering Masada , HGBS 2015
  • Duo Doyna: Sammy's Frejlach , Konnex 2015 (with Martin Schulte )
  • ensemble FisFüz: Mozart in the Orient , Pianissimo Music 2014
  • ensemble FisFüz & Freiburger Spielleyt: Oriental Touch , Christopherus Verlag 2013
  • ensemble FisFüz & Gianluigi Trovesi: Papillons , HGBS 2012
  • Tabadoul Orchestra: world wide wahab , Westpark Music 2011
  • ensemble FisFüz: Ashuré , Pianissimo Music 2011
  • ensemble FisFüz: Golden Horn Impressions , Peregrina Music 2009
  • Duo Hubweber-Maye: Unchained Folk Songs , MV-NRW 2009
  • ensemble FisFüz: Yakamoz , 2008 (self-distribution)
  • Schäl Sick Brass Band: Prasti Music , Westpark Music 2006
  • PyromanDuo: Handle With Care , JazzHausMusik 2006
  • James Choice Orchestra: Live at Moers , Moers Music 2006
  • ensemble FisFüz: SimSim , Peregrina Music 2000
  • Döner Four One: To take away , self-published 2000
  • ensemble FisFüz: Bosphorus Fishing , self-published 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Folker! - The music magazine , Pyromanduo ( Memento from February 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) and jazz newspaper
  2. ^ Open Jazz House School Cologne ( Memento from October 7, 2008 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ Issue 6 (2007) , which is published by Germany's largest society for popular music studies, ASPM
  4. ↑ GEDOK Cologne
  5. ↑ Multiphonics Festival
  6. ↑ In addition to the WDR Jazz Prize 2016, the “Künstlerinnenpreis NRW Jazz” , WDR3 September 16, 2015, accessed November 19, 2016
  7. ↑ Speaking time with Annette Maye , WDR5 1z. November 2016, accessed November 19, 2016
  8. ^ Westpark Music
  9. ↑ JHM
  10. ^ Moers Music
  11. ^ Peregrina Music
personal data
SURNAME Maye, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clarinetist, musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg