Christoph Möckel
Christoph Möckel (* 1986 in Schwerin ) is a German jazz musician ( saxophones , clarinets ).
Life
Möckel, who comes from a family of musicians (his father is the drama conductor Thomas Möckel), attended a music high school . There he was active in the choir and in the big band. Between 2006 and 2011 he studied saxophone at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Wolfgang Engstfeld , Claudius Valk and Frank Gratkowski . He also attended workshops with Hayden Chisholm , Mark Turner and Steve Coleman .
Möckel played in the European Jazz Orchestra 2012, the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra , the Maxime Bender Orchestra ( Fellowship ) and the Florian Ross Big Company ( Ties and Loose Ends ). His debut album Dreamlike with his own quartet was recorded in February 2013 in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk . As a member of the Offshore Quintet , he recorded three albums. With Lucas Leidinger , Stefan Berger and Max Andrzejewski he forms the formation level zero . He was also a member of Marko Mlynek's Bellbird , the quartet of Oliver Lutz ( Signal ) and Sebastian Sternal's Symphonic Society . He also worked as a musician in various productions at the Schauspiel Köln , Staatstheater Schwerin and Schauspiel Düsseldorf . He has lived in Berlin since 2019.
Prizes and awards
Möckel was a prizewinner in the national competition “ Jugend jazzt ” and “ Jugend musiziert ”. In 2010 and 2011 he won the Convento Jazz Prize North Rhine-Westphalia; he was a finalist at the European Jazz Prize Burghausen 2009/2011 and at the competition at the Leverkusener Jazztage 2008.
Discographic notes
- Level Zero Wanderlust ( Traumton Records 2013; with Lucas Leidinger , Stefan Berger, Max Andrzejewski )
- Oliver Lutz Quartet Signal ( Unit Records 2014 with Pablo Held , Moritz Baumgärtner )
- Christoph Möckel Quartet Dreamlike (Klaeng Records 2014; with Simon Seidl , Matthias Akeo Nowak , Fabian Arends and Menzel Mutzke )
- Holzig (A-Jazz 2017; with Hans Arnold , Veit Steinmann , Moritz Sembritzki , Florian Herzog )
- Offshore Quintet Preen (Klaeng Records 2017 with Constantin Krahmer , Dierk Peters , Oliver Lutz, Fabian Rösch )
- Episodes (2019 / Wismart with Hans Arnold, Veit Steinmann, Moritz Sembritzki, Florian Herzog)
Web links
- Web presence
- Christoph Möckel at Allmusic (English)
- Christoph Möckel at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Möckel, Christoph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (saxophones, clarinets) |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1986 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerin |