Axel Dörner

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Axel Dörner with So Seet , 2020 in Club W71
The trumpeter devotes himself to electronics (2007)

Axel Dörner (born April 26, 1964 in Cologne ) is a German jazz trumpeter and composer .

Live and act

Dörner first studied piano in Arnhem, the Netherlands (1988/89) and at the Cologne University of Music (1989–1996). From 1991 he also studied trumpet with Malte Burba . During his studies he performed together with the trumpeter Bruno Leicht as “The Streetfighters Duo”. Other ensembles at that time in which he participated were "The Streetfighters Quartet" and "The Streetfighters Double Quartet" with u. a. Matthias Schubert , Bruno Leicht and Claudio Puntin . In addition, the "Axel Dörner Quartet" (with Frank Gratkowski , Hans Schneider and Martin Blume) was created. With the saxophonist Matthias Petzold he recorded the CDs "Lifelines" and "Psalms and Praise".

Dörner has lived in Berlin since 1994 and appears in a wide variety of occupations, including a. also with The London Jazz Composers Orchestra and with "Hedros" (together with Mats Gustafsson , Günter Christmann, Barry Guy etc.). He has now participated in more than 50 CD recordings.

Axel Dörner is characterized above all by his versatility: He plays more traditional bebop as well as classic free jazz or electronic music , for example with Otomo Yoshihide at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2005. Dörner is both alone and with his trio "TOOT" (together with Phil Minton and Thomas Lehn ) and the enrichment with Christian Lillinger , Håvard Wiik and Jan Roder and in Ken Vandermark's "Territory-Band" an integral part of the Berlin scene of experimental improvised music . Dörner attracted particular attention with the reinterpretation of all the compositions by Thelonious Monk , which he recorded on three CDs ( Monks Casino , Intakt 2005) for the pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach and with his own group “ Die Enttüsselung ” . Dörner's development of his avant-garde ways of playing the trumpet are publicly audible in a series of unaccompanied solo music : Trumpet (2001, BRUIT SECRET), Look at the Music (2002, OLOF BRIGHT), Sind (2006-07, ABSINTH) and on the occasion of Dörner 50th birthday: Dirn Bridge (2014, EUPHORIUM).

He plays in the HDRS quartet with Tristan Honsinger , Olaf Rupp and Oliver Steidle .

In 2006 Dörner received the SWR Jazz Prize endowed with 10,000 euros ; in 2019 he was awarded the Berlin Jazz Prize.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Petzold
  2. ↑ "Lifelines"
  3. ↑ "Psalms and Hymns"
  4. ↑ Schwerdt, Oliver: Theoretical interpretation of the trumpet and its playing styles [...] by Axel Dörner in ders: On the constitution, representation and transformation of the spatial in music. Leipzig 2012, Euphorium, Volume 2, pp. 307–321
  5. ↑ Turning away from tradition
personal data
SURNAME Dörner, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne