Clemens Maria Kitschen

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Clemens Maria Kitschen (born February 21, 1964 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German musician .

After graduating from high school in 1983 at the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Viersen-Dülken and doing community service in Mönchengladbach, he started an apprenticeship as a cook , which he broke off after a few weeks. Music studies at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main . Then two years as a street musician in Hamburg .

He completed additional training in jazz and popular music at the Frankfurt music workshop and specialized in accompanying chansons and cabaret songs .

Since 1997 composer and accompanist for the cabaret artist and chansonnière Madeleine Sauveur , with whom he now lives in Mannheim. In 2001 he founded the bar jazz duo with bassist Johannes Schaedlich .

Studio musician , arranger and composer, among others for the Hessischer Rundfunk .

International engagements and a. in Brussels, Budapest, Bursa, Glasgow, Istanbul, Copenhagen, London, Lugano, Palermo.

Radio and television appearances a. in WDR (" Missfits and Relatives"), ZDF, SWR and in HR and RSI.

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