Christian Bollmann

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Christian Bollmann with padlt noidlt in the "Logo" in Hamburg, January 1980

Christian Bollmann (born February 19, 1949 in Hof ) is a German overtone singer, choir director and trumpeter. The studied jazz musician is one of the pioneers of overtone singing in Germany.

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Bollmann initially received musical instruction on the recorder ; From 1958 violin lessons followed. In 1964 he switched to the trumpet; he first played in the trombone choir, later in the wind ensemble. In 1966 he worked for the first time in a jazz band, The Jazz Doctors in Bonn. After first tours and record production with his own songs in the duo Midnight Circus (with Torsten Schmid) he studied school music from 1971 (trumpet with Manfred Schoof ) and from 1975 musical theater with Mauricio Kagel at the Cologne University of Music . He belonged to groups such as Nonett , the Trio Improvision , the Da Capo Movie Band , Boury and the Padlt Noidlt Archester . As part of the teaching and workshop activities that followed the course, there has been collaboration with composers and musical personalities such as John Cage , Roberto Laneri , Stephanie Wolff , Michael Mantler and Keith Tippett since 1983 .

As early as 1969 he discovered the phenomenon of overtone singing while performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's composition Mood . As a student of Michael Vetter , Bollmann came to focus experimentally on the voice as a universal personal instrument. He also works with exotic musical instruments and loop and echo technology. Since 1985 he has directed the Düsseldorf Overtone Choir, which he founded .

In addition to realizing his own projects (also with the multi-instrumentalist Michael Reimann and the Indian singer Aruna Sairam ), he also worked with Joachim Ernst Berendt . In 1994 he founded Lichthaus-Musik as a publisher and label. He also dealt with sound massages and technical possibilities for conveying them via loudspeakers.

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SURNAME Bollmann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German overtone singer, choir director and trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH court