Christian Kellersmann
Christian Kellersmann (born September 15, 1960 in Hamburg ) is a German music producer who has also emerged as a musician ( flute , saxophone ) and musicologist.
Live and act
As a student, Kellersmann played in the band Quer , with whom he recorded four titles for a young talent competition of the German Phono Academy . Largely autodidact , he also took a lesson from Herb Geller . In the early 1980s he played the saxophone in bands such as Die Doraus and the Marinas and Palais Schaumburg . He has been a member of Die Zimmermänner since 1984 . He studied musicology and dealt with jazz in Germany under the Nazi dictatorship in his master's thesis .
Since 1990 he worked for PolyGram as product manager jazz in order to modernize the labels Verve and ECM as brands. He also reactivated parts of the MPS back catalog , for example with recordings by George Duke , the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band or Albert Mangelsdorff . He had success with a 4-CD box by Oscar Peterson produced by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer ; Also, recordings by Sun Ra previously published as Torso on an LP ( It's After the End of the World ) were published more extensively as a double CD Black Myth / Out in Space . He also brought Till Brönner to Universal and initiated the (late) debut album by Howard Johnson in 1994 . He also produced Max Raabe , Hannes Wader , Francesco Tristano and DePhazz .
In March 2000, Kellersmann was promoted to Head of Classical Music at Universal Music , which he headed as Managing Director between 2002 and 2013, before Universal Music Classics & Jazz was dissolved after the merger with EMI . He initiated and produced the series "Recomposed" on the Deutsche Grammophon label , in which Max Richter's album " Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons " appeared. From 2001 he established the event format "Yellow Lounge", with which classical music was presented in a new way. During his time as director of Universal Music Classics & Jazz , artists like Anna Netrebko , Lang Lang and Rolando Villazon experienced their breakthrough.
Kellersmann has been working at Edel: Kultur since August 2014 , where he is responsible for the support of the classical and jazz section, the sales of audio books and the management of artist and repertoire planning. There he initiated the label “Neue Meister”, on which neoclassical works by composers such as Arash Safaian , Federico Albanese , Tamar Halperin , Sven Helbig and John Kameel Farah are published. In 2015, he also reactivated the jazz label MPS, which had now been part of Edel's portfolio. Recordings by Khalife Schumacher Tristano, Rolf Kühn , Hamilton de Holanda , Lisa Bassenge , Baden Powell , Malakoff Kowalski , Malia , Barbara Dennerlein , China Moses and Erik Leuthäuser have now appeared on it . In February 2019, he joined BMG as Senior Vice President New Classics & Jazz .
In 1990, Kellersmann published a book about jazz under National Socialism and in 2018 a contribution on the neoclassical phenomenon in the book Das Konzert, edited by Martin Tröndle . He also writes a blog , Kellys Diary .
Fonts
- Jazz in Germany from 1933–1945. A scientific study , Menden: Der Jazzfreund, 1990
- Ways of renewal , in: Das Konzert. New Performance Concepts for a Classical Form , ed. by Martin Tröndle , Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2009, pp. 193–199
- Die "neue Klassik" , in: Das Konzert II. Contributions to the research field of Concert Studies , ed. by Martin Tröndle , Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2018, pp. 379–387
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait (music week)
- Christian Kellersmann at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kellersmann, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music producer, also musician and musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |