Christopher Dell
.JPG)
Christopher Dell (born September 17, 1965 in Darmstadt ) is a German musician , composer and theorist .
Life
Dell studied vibraphone , drums and composition in 1985/1986 in Hilversum and from 1986 to 1988 in Rotterdam, from 1988 to 1990 he studied at the Berklee School of Music . He worked as a freelance composer and vibraphonist, and from 1992 to 2000 as a lecturer at the Darmstadt Academy of Music. He also plays in the permanent trio DRA, which was awarded the JazzArtAward in 2002. He also recorded with Theo Jörgensmann , Bob Brookmeyer , Seda , Klaus König , Hiram Bullock , Norbert Stein , Vince Mendoza and with ElbtonalPercussion .
Dell has headed the "Institute for Improvisation Technology" in Berlin since 2000 and was artist in residence at the Goethe-Institut Kolkata from 2007 to 2008 . From 2008 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2018 he held a substitute professorship for urban planning theory at the chair “Urban Design” at HafenCity University Hamburg. He also held a visiting professorship in this subject at the Technical University of Munich . Dell has been teaching urban development and urban renewal at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2017. In May 2012, Dell received his doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen with the thesis "The improvising organization: Management after the end of planning". Since 2010 he has been working in a trio with Christian Lillinger and Jonas Westergaard (album Grammar , 2013). Dell played extensive tours with Wolfgang Haffner's quartet. In 2017 Dell was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .
Awards (selection)
- Scholarship Berklee School of Music (1988)
- Downbeat Allstar Award (1989)
- Gary Burton Jazz Award (1989)
- Finalist European Jazz Competition, Brussels (1994)
- JazzArt Award, Music of the 21st Century, (2002)
- Darmstadt Music Prize (2005)
- Golden Jazz Award (2015)
- Funding of the Music Initiative (2015)
- Studio grant from the Bartels Foundation, Basel (2019)
Discography (selection)
- Christopher Dell Other Voices, Other Rooms , with Billy Drewes , Jim Black (1995, Bellaphon )
- Christopher Dell Dancers on a Plane with Heinz Sauer (1998 Konnex Records ; German Record Award )
- Christopher Dell DRA Future of the Smallest Form (2000, with Christian Ramond, Felix Astor )
- Christopher Dell and Hyperion Ensemble "Suddenness. Gestures" (2001) edition niehler werft
- Christopher Dell DRA Real (2002), edition niehler werft
- Dell + wing, Superstructure (2005), Labratory Instinct
- Danielsson , Dell, Landgren Salzau Music on the Water (2005, ACT)
- 3D, Not Three , (2008 Not Two Records )
- WDR Big Band Benny Goodman Revisited , feat. Christopher Dell, Paquito D'Rivera , (2010, Connector)
- Christopher Dell DRA Typology (2013) edition niehler werft
- Dell / Lillinger / Westergaard Grammar , (2013 gligg records )
- Art of Making (Christopher Dell, Theo Jörgensmann, Christian Ramond) Tribute , (2014) edition niehler werft
- Oles Brothers & Christopher Dell Komeda Ahead , (2015) jazzarium, Warsaw
- Christopher Dell DRA 3rd critique , (2016) edition niehler werft
- Dell-Brecht-Lillinger-Westergaard, Boulez Materialism , (2018 plaist)
- Oleś Brothers & Christopher Dell Górecki Ahead , (2018 Audio Clave)
Publications
- Principle of improvisation . König, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-88375-605-9 .
- Replaycity . Jovis, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86859-039-5 .
- Tacit Urbanism . Post-Editions, Rotterdam 2009, ISBN 978-94-6083-006-8 .
- The improvising organization . Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2259-1 .
- Goods: living! Politics. Economy. Urban planning. Jovis, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86859-268-9 .
- "The Urban - Living. Living. Producing" Jovis Verlag Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86859-239-9 .
- "City as an open score" Lars Müller Verlag Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86859-239-9 .
- "Epistemology of the City" Transcript, Bielefeld 2016,
Web links
- Homepage
- More detailed discography
- Ch.Dell: Notation and Performance (PDF; 725 kB)
- BlindDate between jazz musician Christopher Dell and dancer Nina Vallon in Darmstadt on June 23, 2011 (Architectural Summer Rhein-Main 2011)
Individual evidence
- ^ Author biography in "Die improvisierende Organization, Christopher Dell" ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Transcript publisher website. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ↑ Dell * + wing * - superstructure. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dell, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dell, Christopher Renatus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician, composer and improvisation theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |