Frank Wingold
Frank Wingold (* 1968 in Speyer ) is a German jazz and classical guitarist and composer.
Live and act
Wingold has been playing the guitar since he was nine years old. From 1988 to 1993 he studied jazz and classical guitar at the Hilversum Conservatory and has lived in Cologne since then. In 1993 he became a member of the Underkarl group led by Sebastian Gramss (with Nils Wogram , Lömsch Lehmann , Dirk-Peter Kölsch ), of which he is still a member. With the singer Martina Gassmann he worked in a duo and in the group Leisure Minx (with Tobi Lessnow and Konstantin Wienstroer ). With Oliver Leicht he belongs to the trio of Efrat Alony .
Together with guitarist Ralph Beerkircher , Wingold forms the duo shraeng , which specializes in the performance of contemporary music. In addition to pieces by Karlheinz Stockhausen , John Cage , Stefan Wolpe and Michael Fiday , the duo premiered Moritz Eggert 's Riff and Theodor Pauß ' Cupido in 2002, and two pieces by Sandeep Bhagwatis and Karola Obermüller in 2004 .
He was also involved in various music theater projects ( Orpheus by Louis Andriessen in Amsterdam, the chamber opera Der Sprung by Georg Hajdu , PoppeaMaterial nach Monteverdi by Claas Willeke ), played and composed radio plays and film music and gave concerts as a soloist ( Bons for small orchestra and improviser by Theo Loevendie ). In 2013 , the EOS Chamber Orchestra Cologne recorded his composition Groove under the direction of Susanne Blumenthal .
As a band leader, Wingold works with the agog group (with Joost Lijbaart and Mark Haanstra ). With the group he won the Europe Jazz Contest in Brussels, where he was also recognized as best soloist, and in 2002 the Dutch Jazz Competition at the North Sea Jazz Festival .
Wingold has been professor for jazz guitar at the Institute for Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences since the 2009/10 winter semester .
Discography
- Post No Bills: defense daffichier , (with Ole Schmidt , Chris Weinheimer , Carl Ludwig Hübsch and Sebastian Gramss ), 1995
- Underkarl: 20th Century Jazz Cover , 1996
- Underkarl: Jazz Essence , 1999
- agog: Shortcuts to Detours , 2001
- Underkarl: Second Brain , 2003
- Leisure Minx: Dogs of Unknown People , 2003
- agog / zapp: Meltdown , with Joost Lijbaart and Mark Haanstra and the strings Jasper Le Clercq , Jeffrey Bruinsma , Oene van Geel , Emile Visser , 2004
- Clairvoyance , 2005; with Niels Klein , Dietmar Fuhr , Jonas Burgwinkel
- Martina Gassmann & Frank Wingold: In the Backyards of Our Souls , 2008
- agog: Some Frump Punk , 2008
- Frank Wingold Clairvoyance: Virtues & Vices , ( Double Moon Records 2011; with Niels Klein, Dietmar Fuhr, Jonas Burgwinkel)
- Wingold Alony Leicht : A Kit for Mending Thoughts ( Enja 2012)
- EOS Chamber Orchestra / Niels Klein , Florian Ross , Frank Wingold: Additions (HouseMaster 2017)
- Entangled Music (Berthold 2018 with Robert Landfermann and Jonas Burgwinkel)
Web links
- Frank Wingold's homepage
- Frank Wingold at Allmusic (English)
- Frank Wingold at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wingold, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz and classical guitarist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Speyer |