Fred Lonberg-Holm

With Ullmann / Swell's Chicago Plan in Club W71 , 2018

Fred Lonberg-Holm (born October 1, 1962 in Delaware ) is an American cellist .

Live and act

Lonberg-Holm grew up in Wilmington , where he received classical cello lessons at the age of ten. After high school, he moved to New York City , where he studied cello with Ardyth Alton and Orlando Cole, and composition with Morton Feldman and Bunita Marcus , and then trained at Mills College with Anthony Braxton . He has worked with various ensembles such as the quartet PEEP , Anthony Braxtons Creative Orchestra , Anthony Colemans Selfhaters and God Is My Co-Pilot as well as the saxophonist John Zorn.

In the late 1990s he moved to Chicago . Here he was a member of the Trio Troppo and led the Light Box Orchestra and the Pillow group (with Michael Zerang , Liz Payne , Ben Vida and Michael Colligan ). In addition, he also worked with Ken Vandermark , Jim O'Rourke , Misha Mengelberg ( Two Days in Chicago , 1999), Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet , Tony Malabys Cello Trio, Joe McPhee Survival Unit III , the noise jazz band The Flying Luttenbachers and with Kevin Drumm and Axel Dörner . In addition to his own projects, he works on around ten jazz , rock and avant-garde albums every year . With Gebhard Ullmann , Steve Swell and Michael Zerang he forms Ullmann / Swell's Chicago Plan .

Discographic notes

• Theory of Motion with Eric Bergkvist , Anthony Braxton, Mtafiti Imara , William D. Kelley , Randy McKean , Andreas Mniestris , Jeannie Parsons , Maureen Spranza , Rob Stephenson , Claude Truesdell , William Winant , Clyde Yasuhara , 1990
• Solos and Trios with Eric Bergkvist, Michael Gendreau , 1991
• Personal Scratch , solo album, 1996
• Joy of Being with Michaël Attias , Rob Cimino , Edward Ratliff , 1997
• Building a Better Future with Jeb Bishop , Jim O'Rourke , Michael Zerang, 1998
• Site-Specific (Duets for Cello and Guitar) with Jim Baker , Jeb Bishop, John Corbett , Kevin Drumm , Charles Kim , Michael Krassner , Jim O'Rourke, Adam Sonderberg , Ben Vida, Michael Zerang, 1999
• Terminal 4 with Josh Abrams , Jeb Bishop, Ben Vida, 2001
• A Valentine for Fred Katz with Glenn Kotche , Jason Roebke , 2002
• When I'm Falling with Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, Ben Vida, 2003
• Other Valentines with Jason Roebke, Frank Rosaly , 2005
• Aram Shelton 's Fast Citizens: Two Cities with Keefe Jackson , Josh Berman , Anton Hatwich , Frank Rosaly ( Delmark Records , 2009)
• Stine Janvin Motland / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Ståle Liavik Solberg / Frode Gjerstad: VC / DC (Hispid, 2011)
• Ballister Trio: Mechanisms (Clean Feed, 2012) with Dave Rempis , Paal Nilssen-Love
• Fred Lonberg-Holm / Nick Stephens : Crackle: Six improvisations for Cello and Double Bass (Loose Torque, 2014)
• Stirrup (Clean Feed, 2018), with Nick Macri , Charles Rumback

Web links

Commons : Fred Lonberg-Holm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence
• Portrait (AllAboutJazz)
• Fred Lonberg-Holm at Allmusic (English)