Chris Beier
Chris Beier (born May 5, 1953 in Trier ) is a German jazz musician ( pianist and composer ) and university lecturer.
Life
Beier worked with Toto Blanke , Albert Mangelsdorff and Aladár Pege in the 1970s . Between 1979 and 1985 he worked as musical director at the Staatstheater Nürnberg , for which he also performed the musical Black Rider by Robert Wilson , Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs in 1997 and subsequently other pieces. In addition to working for radio and television, he also wrote his composition “Angel Memory” based on Alban Berg's violin concerto ; for the large-format Overtone Orchestra he wrote the full-length compositions Ragas & Sagas (a tribute to John Coltrane ) and Winds of Akasha .
He has released recordings solo, in a duo with Leszek Zadlo and with the Overtone Trio (to which Rainer Glas and Rudi Roth and Joe Nay belonged).
Since the appearance of focal dystonia in 2001, Chris Beier has withdrawn from active concert life. Beier worked as a lecturer at the Erlangen jazz workshops and has been head of the jazz department at the University of Music in Würzburg since 1987 . He teaches jazz harmony and composition, ear training , digital music production and teaching practice.
Beier was initially strongly influenced by McCoy Tyner , but has led elements of the jazz tradition and the avant-garde, as well as the compositional principles of Paul Hindemith and George Russell, to an independent synthesis.
Web links
- Works by and about Chris Beier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Chris Beier's website
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Beier, Chris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5th 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |