Clemens Pötzsch

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Clemens Pötzsch, during a studio session in 2012

Clemens Pötzsch (also Clemens Christian Poetzsch ; born March 12, 1985 in Dresden ) is a German pianist and composer .

Life

Pötzsch attended St. Benno-Gymnasium , received musical training at the Heinrich Schütz Conservatory in Dresden until 2003 and studied piano at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden (HfM) from 2004 to 2010 with Michael Fuchs and Matthias Bätzel . This was followed by composition studies with Thomas Zoller .

Pötzsch was a member of the Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra , played at the lecturer's concert as part of the Jazztage Dresden 2012 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the jazz / rock / pop discipline at the HfM and was part of the ensemble of the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . In addition, Pötzsch was a founding member of the German-Lebanese quartet Masaa , to which he belonged between 2012 and 2018, with performances in Lebanon, among others, and in 2013 at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut in East Africa. In 2013 he composed the ballet music Što zwostanje - Abschied for the Sorbian National Ensemble .

In 2015 he arranged some songs by the band Rammstein for piano; on the concept album Rammstein - XXI piano he is also the sole interpreter of the selected Rammstein titles. His album Remember Tomorrow , which was published in the Neue Meister series by Edel in 2019 , was nominated in five categories for the Opus Klassik . He can also be heard on albums by guitarist Paul Peuker and saxophonist Robert Menzel.

Pötzsch taught piano and accompaniment at the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences .

Honourings and prices

Pötzsch has received several scholarships and prizes, including a prize winner in the International Jazz Haus Piano Competition Freiburg (2008), a finalist in the Concours de piano-jazz Martial Solal (2009), a scholarship from the Kulturstiftung des Landes Sachsen and won the soloist award of the Krokus Jazz Festiwal in Jelenia Góra (2012). With Masaa he won the first Bremen Jazz Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, in 2012 .

Discography (selection)

  • Poetzsch / Lauer / Rolnik live in Straubingen (2012)
  • Clemens Poetzsch and Slavicon (2012, with Alina Gropper, Eugen Rolnik, Florian Lauer)
  • Masaa: Freedom Dance (2013, with Marcus Rust, Rabih Lahoud , Demian Kappenstein)
  • Peuker8: Resound (2013)
  • Masaa Afkar (2014)
  • Rammstein - XXI piano (2015)
  • Peuker8: Influx (2018, with Mark Weschenfelder, Paul Peuker, Alina Gropper, Filip Sommer, Elisabeth Coudoux , Eugen Rolnik, Florian Lauer)
  • Remember Tomorrow (2019)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 50 years of jazz / rock / pop at the Dresden University of Music. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Clemens Pötzsch, stage musician. (No longer available online.) Staatsschauspiel Dresden, archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Clemens Pötzsch: RAMMSTEIN “Piano” ( Memento from December 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), November 25, 2015
  4. ↑ Clemens Pötzsch: New Rammstein Single “Germany” feat. Piano by Clemens Christian Poetzsch. April 3, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ A list of winners of the Krokus Jazz Festiwal can be found in the Polish-language Wikipedia article of the festival .
  6. ↑ Bremen Jazz Prize: Masaa. In: Jazzthing. October 4, 2012, accessed March 15, 2015 .
  7. ^ Frank Schindelbeck: Bremen Jazz Prize 2012 - the winners: Masaa. September 29, 2012, accessed March 15, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Clemens Pötzsch & Slavicon: SLAVICON. Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg, accessed March 15, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Poetzsch, Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poetzsch, Clemens Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden