Bernd Homann

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Bernd Homann (* 1964 in Edemissen near Peine ) is a German pianist and composer .

Life

Homann began playing the piano at the age of five and became interested in jazz at the age of 13 , initially focusing on ragtime and boogie .

After graduating from school, he began studying jazz, rock and pop teaching at the Hanover University of Music and Theater in 1986 , which he completed in 1990 with a diploma. In the following years he founded the Bernd Homann Quartet and, together with the members of his quartet and as a soloist in various disciplines, has been one of the winners of competitions since 1992, for example at the Jazz Podium Niedersachsen or the Jazz Youth Festival in Leipzig . In 1996 he was awarded the Culture Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony . In 1998 Homann was the fourth prize winner at the international piano competition Concours internationaux de la Ville de Paris - 2nd Concours de Piano-Jazz / Martial Solal for jazz piano .

In 1999 the Bernd Homann Quartet in Hamburg at the Deichtorhallen , committed as a preliminary program for a concert by Herbie Hancock - attracted national attention. In 2000 Homann formed a supporting program for events of the Goethe Institute in Latvia and Lithuania , later also to Denmark , France and the Ukraine , solo and with the quartet named after him with concert tours .

At Expo 2000 , Homann and his quartet performed Morgenstern as part of the cultural kaleidoscope Hannover event series . In 2003 he presented a duo album with saxophonist Anselm Simon.

Since 2000, Homann has been teaching piano at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover in the popular music and jazz course.

Discographic notes

  • Anselm Simon / Bernd Homann Two Days - One Moment , Schoener Hoeren, 2009
  • Bernd Homann: Dagiga / all titles composed by Bernd Homann ... , Castor record production, 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bernd Homann: Biography on his page bernd-homann.de [ undated ], last accessed on September 28, 2017
  2. ↑ oV : jazz , in: Culture mirror , Issue 1, 1999, Hamburg: mirror-Verlag, pp 36; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ George A. Speckert : KulturKaleidoskop - made in Hannover. Alternative culture in the tailwind of EXPO2000 , 1st edition, Hamburg: tredition, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7439-5486-1 and ISBN 3-7439-5486-9 , p. 50
  4. ↑ Entry (Hanover University of Music and Theater)
  5. ↑ Review of the Jazz Podium 11/2009, p. 70
personal data
SURNAME Homann, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Edemissen near Peine