Ernst Reijseger

Ernst Reijseger, at the presentation of the cultural honorary award of the city of Munich for Werner Herzog in 2015

Ernst Reijseger, Moers Festival 2007

Ernst Reijseger (born November 13, 1954 in Bussum , Netherlands) is a Dutch cellist . He plays avant-garde jazz , new music and improvised music .

Live and act

Mola Sylla, Concordu e Tenore de Orosei and Ernst Reijseger play music from the film The Wild Blue Yonder by Werner Herzog . Milano, May 22, 2006

Reijseger started playing the cello at the age of eight. He was tutored by Anner Bylsma . Since the early 1970s his interest has been in improvisation. He gained relevant experience with Derek Bailey , Martin van Duynhoven , Alan Purves and Gerry Hemingway ( Demon Chaser 1993), among others . He has performed in Europe with Burton Greene , Sean Bergin and with dance and theater groups. During the 1980s he played in the Amsterdam String Trio , the Theo Loevendie Consort, the Guus Janssen septet , the Arcado String Trio and the Instant Composers Pool orchestra .

At the end of the 1980s, Reijseger founded the trio Clusone 3 together with saxophonist Michael Moore and drummer Han Bennink , with whom he recorded six CDs; he also performed with Joëlle Léandre , Albert Mangelsdorff , Louis Sclavis , Georg Graewe ( The View from Points West 1991), Simon Nabatov , Ig Henneman , Boi Akih , Trilok Gurtu and Mola Sylla . He was also involved in various world music projects with musicians from Sardinia , Turkey , Iran , the Moluccas and Argentina .

Reijseger has also written film music in recent years , especially for films by Werner Herzog .

In 1985 Reijseger was awarded the Boy Edgar Prize . In 1995 he received the Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival . In 2019 he was awarded the Werner Herzog Film Prize by the Werner Herzog Foundation .