Christoph Haas (musician)
Christoph Haas (born September 14, 1953 in Stuttgart ) is a German musician , composer and rhythm teacher .
Life
Having grown up with classical European music ( Stuttgart hymn choir boy ), Christoph Haas began playing drums in 1966 . Extensive study trips to West Africa, Latin America and South India followed.
Using an extensive set of instruments ( conga , musical bows , gongs , frame drums , bowed psalteries , tanpura , shell horns , tubular bells ), he developed an unmistakably independent musical language, which is characterized on the one hand by a deep respect for tradition and a comprehensive knowledge of musical traditions, on the other hand by development innovative playing techniques such as playing with two arcs on the bowed psaltery.
His compositions for percussion solo, chamber music ensembles and percussion ensembles are characterized by multi-layered polyrhythmics in often odd meters and differentiated handling of timbres and overtones.
Christoph Haas performed as a percussionist in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Austria, Italy, Croatia, France, Switzerland and made music a. a. with Giora Feidman , Paul Giger , Nikola Lutz , Gert Anklam , Enzo Favata and Marcello Peghin. In 1992 he founded the percussion ensemble Banda Maracatù .
In 1998 the musical collaboration began with his wife, the singer Stephanie Haas , in the Ensemble Cosmedin . Since then the musician couple has given concerts a. a. in Cologne Cathedral, in the domes in Mainz, Speyer, Bamberg, Limburg, Frankfurt, Naumburg, Trier, in the Aachen Palatine Chapel, in Ulm and Bern Minster, in the cathedrals of Chartres , Vézelay and Chur , in Ascona, Lugano, St. Gallen, Amsterdam, Strasbourg, Paris, Vienna, Munich, Berlin and at numerous festivals ( Voix et Route Romane , Festival European Church Music , Hildegard-Herbst Bingen, Nibelungen Festival Worms , Cultural Summer Rhineland-Palatinate ).
Christoph Haas has been teaching since 1986. The ocean of rhythm combines exercises to sensitize the perception, a syllable language developed further from the South Indian konnakkol and coordinated gestures and steps to a holistic musical concept. From 1995 to 2004 he taught at the Stuttgart University of Music , and in 1997 at the Conservatorio di Pernambuco in Brazil.
Discography
Ensemble Cosmedin :
- Meister Eckhart: Love knows no why. Music and texts of mysticism (2018)
- A human heart is like a ship in the wild sea. Martin Luther and the Psalter. Music and texts from Wittenberg, Metz, Paris, Milan (2017)
- Psalm - Tehilim (2016)
- But don't be afraid. Hildegard von Bingen - music and texts.
- Songs from the "Symphonia armoniae caelestium revelationum", song texts, excerpts from letters and writings (2012)
- Alleluia. Songs of Joy (2012)
- Anima mea. Sacred Music of the Middle Ages (2011)
- Ruby (2007)
- Hrabanus Maurus. Hymns (2006)
- Seraphim (2005)
- Lilium (2001)
- La musica inventa al silencio (1999)
Banda Maracatù :
- North East South West. Live in the Merlin (1998)
- Heart Beat (2006)
- That funky samba thing (2008)
- Mother Earth (2014)
- Vision (2018)
Other :
- Konkolo (1993)
- Stephanie Haas: Youkali (with Christoph Haas et al., 1996)
- Musica Povera / Inside the Hollow Cliff (1999)
- Diapason (2004, nominated for the German Record Critics' Prize)
- Sacred Space - Sacred Sound (2003)
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haas, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, composer, rhythm teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |