Claus Reichstaller
Claus Reichstaller (* 25. May 1963 in Munich ) is a German trumpeter of modern jazz .
Live and act
Reichstaller learned the trumpet from the age of nine; at the age of eleven he won the regional competition of Jugend musiziert . He first graduated from the vocational school for music in Altötting , before studying classical trumpet with Helmut Reinhart at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich from 1980 to 1984 . Since the mid-1980s he appeared with Benny Bailey and Al Porcino , who continued to shape him. After his military service he continued to work in the Porcino big band, with Harald Rüschenbaum , with Peter Herbolzheimer and with Rudi Fuesers ' Connexion Latina . Between 1987 and 1989 he was a member of Charly Antolini's Jazz Power . Nathan Davis brought him to his Paris Reunion Band for the first time in 1989 instead of Woody Shaw , with whom he later also performed in Japan and the Middle East. Together with the saxophonist Axel Kühn he founded the group Conception , with which he released several albums. He continued to work with John Handy , Klaus Doldinger , Wolfgang Schmid , Max Greger , Paul Kuhn , the WDR Big Band Cologne and the hr-Bigband ; since 1997 he has been a member of the SWR Big Band . He also went on tour with his own quartet. In 2006 he toured with Benny Golson's sextet .
Reichstaller was recognized as a composer in 2009 with his music for the play "Leichtes Spiel" by Botho Strauss in a production by Dieter Dorn at the Residenztheater in Munich .
In 2009 Reichstaller was appointed professor for jazz at the Munich University of Music and Theater after the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich was absorbed into it. Since 2008 he has been the successor to Kurt Maas as head of the jazz department (after having been a lecturer since the 1990s).
Discographic notes
- Conception Conception (1992)
- Conception Live (1992)
- Arrival (1999, with Kirk Lightsey , Paulo Cardoso and Keith Copeland )
Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Press release on Reichstaller's appointment
- ^ Administrator: Reichstaller, Claus, Prof. - Trumpet. Retrieved on February 4, 2018 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichstaller, Claus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German modern jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |