Bardo Henning

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Michael Bardo Henning (born June 15, 1955 in Fulda ) is a German jazz musician ( piano , accordion ) and composer .

Live and act

Henning learned the piano as a child and worked as a church organist when he was young. He studied music at the Giessen-Fulda University of Applied Sciences and the Graz University of Music . He studied the sound languages ​​of Thelonious Monks , McCoy Tyners and Cecil Taylors intensively ; In dealing with it, he developed his own chord connections and an individual piano style. During his studies, he founded the Serene quartet with saxophonist Johannes Barthelmes in 1980 , which later operated from Berlin . The quartet recorded a number of records - with trumpeter Hannibal Marvin Peterson , among others - and won jazz prizes. In 1985 Henning and Barthelmes founded the Experimenti Berlin Orchestra, a large workshop-style formation for which Henning wrote most of the compositions. He played with Sirone and Tony Oxley in a trio, as well as with Albert Mangelsdorff and Günter Baby Sommer in a duo, but also as a solo pianist. He plays in the Hannover Calling group with Herbert Hellhund , Matthias Schubert , Detlef Landeck and Detlev Beier . On the piano he accompanies Turkish singing stars such as Leman Sam and Selda Bağcan and has appeared in a trio with Carlos Bica and Ammando Chuh. In addition, he has been playing urban folklore with his trio Bardomaniacs since 1998 . He continues to work with the singer Linda Becker and the bassoonist Elisabeth Böhm-Christl.

Henning received numerous composition commissions ( e.g. for the Eislerchor and Saxophonquadrat ). In 1993 he performed his "Wüstencommunication" at the Donaueschinger Musiktage . In 1998 the Lower Saxony state government commissioned him to write the music for the central celebration of the Day of German Unity ; Because of an eight-bar quote from the GDR hymn " Resurrected from ruins ", which he had set in three- four time, it came to a political scandal: Edmund Stoiber refused to take part in the celebrations.

Henning's jazz opera Achmets Traum , which premiered in 1988, went on tour from 2002 to 2004 on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Youth and Family with 5 break dancers, a Turkish choir, the Landesjugendjazzorchester Berlin and actors. In 2001 he was artist in residence at the Hanover University of Music and Theater . He has performed at international jazz festivals ( Pori , Brussels, Edinburgh, Istanbul, Berlin) and is organizing a Tucholsky evening together with the singer Gina Pietsch .

In 2015 a CD was released with songs by him by The Lost , poets who were hushed up, killed, expatriated or expelled by the Nazis, or whose books were destroyed in the book burning .

Honourings and prices

In 1982 Serene received the 1st prize of the German Phono Academy for her first record. In 1989 Henning was awarded the SWF Jazz Prize. In 2005 he received the Audience Award at the Monastir International Theater Festival / Tunisia

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We're still there too. A Kurt Tucholsky evening with Gina Pietsch (v) Bardo Henning (p)
  2. ↑ Songs of the Lost Contents of the CD
personal data
SURNAME Henning, Bardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henning, Michael Bardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda