Dirk Mündelein

Dirk Mündelein (* 1969 in Olsberg , Hochsauerlandkreis ) is a German musician ( guitar , sampling , composition ) who is primarily active in the fields of jazz and new music .

Act

Mündelein, who initially played conga in the school big band, switched to guitar at the age of 14. In 1986, after three years of teaching, he was awarded first prize at the Jugend jazzt competition as the best guitar soloist . In 1988 he began studying guitar at the Munich Guitar Institute, and then graduated from the Cologne University of Music and Dance with the top grade.

Since 1991 Mündelein has been part of the trio Ugly Culture , alongside Christoph Clöser (saxophone) and Martin Ingenhütt (double bass) , which interpreted works by John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and performed successfully at international festivals for new music. Composers such as Christian Wolff , Tom Johnson , Manfred Stahnke , Mari Takano , Georg Hajdu and Johannes Fritsch wrote for the ensemble.

In the field of jazz, he performed with musicians such as Marlena Shaw , Joachim Ullrich and Wolfgang Braun , Celine Rudolph , Hubert Nuss , Ramesh Shotham , Peter Fulda , Holger Nell and Andi Maile . Mundelein took part in the by Steffen Schorn and Claudio Puntin aligned SWR New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden 2000 . In 2000 he played with the ensembles of both musicians at the Donaueschinger Musiktage . In the same year he formed the trio Triosphere with Schorn and Roger Hanschel , which presented its debut album in 2004 and received the German Record Critics' Prize.

He also took over the musical direction of theater music at the Berliner Ensemble (for productions by Peter Palitzsch and Volker Spengler ), at the Schauspiel Köln (for Hans Georg Koch and Georg Ringsgwandl ), and at the Schauspiel Bonn . He realized the radio play "Questions" with the performance artist Cornelia Blättler . After a duo with the singer Betty Striewe , Mündelein is currently (2016) running a trio, which he is also strengthening with Hanschel and the singer Eva Mayerhofer .

Mündelein was a lecturer at the Cologne JazzHaus School and at the Augsburg University of Music . After ten years of training, he has also been an Okinawa Kung Fu teacher since 1999 .

Discographic notes

• Claudio Puntin Clap You ( JazzHausMusik 2004)
• Triosphere Triosphere (Jazz'n'Arts Records 2004)
• Peter Fulda 8rituals ( Konnex Records 2008)
• Lost words: Obsolete (11 monad series 2013; solo)
• Steffen Schorn Septet Tiefenträume (Pure Audio Records 2015)

Web links

• Web presence
• Dirk Mündelein: Tactful string jumper and martial artist WAZ, February 25, 2013
• Dirk Mündelein at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Brief portrait (SWR)
2. ↑ SWR jazz session (Donaueschinger Musiktage 2000)
3. ↑ Poetry with hard steel strings (review)