Claudio Puntin

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Claudio Puntin (2012)

Claudio Puntin (* 1965 in Zug ) is a Swiss clarinetist, composer, music producer and goldsmith of Italian descent.

Live and act

In his youth, Puntin played folk music on the harmonica with his brother and father at peasant festivals in Friuli, Italy . At the age of 9 he started playing the clarinet. From 1981 to 1985, Puntin learned the profession of goldsmith at the School for Jewelry Design in Lucerne and received the Prix ​​Golay Buchel Jewelry and Design in 1985 . From 1987 to 1993 he studied clarinet, bass clarinet, jazz and contemporary music in Cologne and Rotterdam . He regularly took part in courses given by Sergiu Celibidache , whom he describes as one of his most important teachers.

He founded various formations such as the Schorn Puntin Duo (with Steffen Schorn ) with whom he toured worldwide from 1990 to 2013. This was followed by various ensembles such as Quipu , the Claudio Puntin Trio (with Anders Jormin and Miroslav Tadić ), "Essence of North" with the Icelandic violinist Gerdur Gunnarsdóttir, "clap you" commissioned for the Days of New Music Donaueschingen 2000, the World Clarinet Quartet ( with Gabriele Mirabassi , Luca Raele and Paulo Sérgio Santos ), the “Balkan Clarinet Summit”, the “Trio Dolce Vita”, the baroque ensemble “Lamento Project”, the octet “Sepiasonic”, the electroacoustic trio “Ambiq” and together with Martina Taubenberger the festival soundtracks .

As a composer and producer he created music for radio plays, films, theater and exhibitions, etc. a. zu: Vermessung der Welt , "Tyll" ( Daniel Kehlmann ), Rot is my name ( Orhan Pamuk ) for WDR, "Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen for HR, Soundless Wind Chime ( Berlinale 2009 ). As a soloist he is in various To hear films like Jenseits der Stille , Nur über Meine Leiche , Pünktchen and Anton (1999) . He set 10 pictures by Anselm Kiefer to music for the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. The concert suite "AROMA, imaginative spaces for clarinet, bass clarinet, electronics and orchestra" was presented by commissioned by the Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä and premiered by him together with the Minnesota Orchestra and the composer as soloists on November 11th and 12th, 2016 in the Orchestra Hall Minneapolis MN.

He has worked as a musician, composer, arranger and actor in productions for the Berlin opera company Novoflot . Together with Alexandra Naumann, he wrote the musical theater piece “Von Menschen Tiere und other Instruments” (1993) for the Schauspielhaus Köln, played the klezmer clarinet in “Anatevka” (1993–94) and worked in the play “Petrol station of the damned” (1995) With. As a film music composer, he wrote the soundtracks for various films a. a .: “Soundless Windchime” (2008) and “Stoma” (2016) by Kit Hung, “Sunset in Venice” (Venice Short Film Award 1997) by Spiros Taraviras, “Teatatoo” by Robert Schmidt-Gill and worked as a studio musician in films such as : "Jenseits der Stille" (Oscar nomination), "Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger", "The flying classroom" among others. Together with Oliver Potratz and Jo Ambros he founded the "Instant Music Factory", the independent sound art for radio in real time , Film, theater and industry.

His collaboration includes musicians from various genres, including a .: Steve Reich , Sidsel Endresen , Jan Bang , Skuli Sverrisson , Emiliana Torrini , Ingo Metzmacher , Osmo Vänskä, Markus Stockhausen , Jim Black , Anders Jormin , Florian Weber , Kristjan Randalu , Carla Bley , Steve Swallow , Lucas Niggli , Stefan Schulze , Alba G. Corral , Seastian Studnitzky , Hermeto Pascoal , Nils Wogram , Dave Liebman , Wolfert Brederode , Martyn Heyne, Nik Bärtsch , Martin Fondse , Fred Frith , u. v. a.

In 2011 he founded the electro-acoustic trios Ambiq together with Samuel Rohrer and Max Loderbauer . Ambiq uses ACO's (Acoustic Controlled Oscillator), triggers and other processes. a. Control modular synthesizers of clarinets and drums. Ambiq tracks have been remixed by various DJs. In addition to Thomas Fehlmann , Tobias. , Margaret Dygas , the collaboration with Ricardo Villalobos is particularly noteworthy. Together with him, Ambiq were able to bring their new form of free electronic music to a DJ-oriented audience in several live concerts. From this experience he developed a form of music that is close to quantum philosophy. Here he creates electronic rhythmic and tonal superpositions controlled by the clarinet, which are inspired by the wave / particle phenomenon of the double slit experiment.

Teaching

From 1998 to 2008 he taught at the Cologne University of Music, from 2009 to 2013 he was a lecturer for jazz clarinet at the JIB Universität der Künste Berlin , he gives international masterclasses and workshops a. a. to: California Jazz Conservatory, music academies in Trento, Helsinki, Beijing, Bangkok, Hanoi, Lucerne, Leipzig, Dresden, Arnhem, Belgrade, La Paz, Santiago. His students included Nils Klein , Annette Maye , Peter Ehwald , Kati Brien, Victor Wolf, Charlotte Greve .

Prizes and awards

In a duo with Schorn, Puntin was a finalist at the European Jazz Competition Leverkusen in 1991 , won first prize in the Frankfurt Music Creativity Competition in 1993 and the support award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Southern Comforts Jazz Musician of the Year in 1994, and the Essen Jazz Pot in 1999 In 2000 he received the Werkjahr of the canton of Zug, in 2004 he was the first winner of the WDR Jazz Prize in Cologne.

Claudio Puntin 2007 in Frankfurt / M

Discographic notes

  • «Ambiq 2» Ambiq (arjunamusic) 2015
  • «Ambiq» Ambiq (arjunamusic) 2015
  • «Sepiasonic» Sepiasonic (arjunamusic)
  • "Post Scriptum" Wolfert Brederode Quartet ( ECM )
  • "Currents" Wolfert Brederode Quartet (Edition of Contemporary Music (ECM))
  • "Ylir" Gerdur Gunnarsdottir / Claudio Puntin (Edition of Contemporary Music (ECM))
  • "Balkan Clarinet Summit" ( Piranha 2015)
  • "Clap you" Claudio Puntin ( JazzHausMusik 2000)
  • "Mondo" Claudio Puntin (JazzHausMusik 1998)
  • "Cor" Puntin / Rohrer / Esteves (Blueserge 2010)
  • "Move mountains" Claudio Puntin & Lucerne Jazz Orchestra ( Unit Records 2010)
  • "East" Claudio Puntin & Gerdur Gunnarsdottir String Quartet (Unit Records 2011)
  • "Elephants Love Affair" Schorn Puntin Duo (NCC 1993)

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