Georg Niehusmann
Georg Niehusmann (born June 10, 1963 in Essen ) is a German sound engineer , jazz musician ( tenor and baritone saxophone , big band leader) and music producer.
Act
In the 1980s, Niehusmann studied church music at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and sound engineering at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf .
Niehusmann directed the big band Glenn and the Millers while still a student ; He also taught saxophone at the Folkwang Music School in Essen. As a saxophonist he made guest appearances with a wide variety of formations in Europe and the USA, for example in a duo with his twin brother, the guitarist Volker Niehusmann . Since the end of his music education career, he has been making music with his jazz sextet, but also as a guest musician in rock and pop and in theater productions. Since 1995 he has been a founding member of the Kokopelli Saxophone Quartet , which became a finalist in the European SaxContest of Yamaha in 2003. With this quartet he recorded the albums Come Away , Conversation Amusante and Gershwin & Bernstein .
In 2011 he took over the management of the big band at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences , in which he previously worked as a baritone saxophonist; The formation received the WDR Jazz Prize for the album Shades of Blue, which he produced in 2011 .
After graduating as a qualified sound engineer, Niehusmann has been employed as a sound engineer at WDR for over 25 years in the genres of jazz, world music , chamber music and for recordings for his radio orchestras. He also runs the recording studio of the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen-Werden and his own CD label Sonic Market . In 2012 he received a Golden Bobby for his recording of "Expulsion" by Frank Kirchner and Zoomachine . As a music producer he worked with Ramesh Shotham , Peter Erskine , Larry Carlton , Lew Soloff , Finn Martin , Frank Kirchner, Alexander von Schlippenbach , Iva Buric Zalac , Scot Weir, Antje Bitterlich, the Folkwang Guitar Duo, Audrey Smiles and the FH BigBand Düsseldorf.
Web links
- Short biography
- Georg Niehusmann at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kokopelli Saxophone Quartet
- ↑ FH-Big-Band has new head of RP-Online, March 2nd, 2011
- ↑ Golden Bobby Prize Winner
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Niehusmann, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sound engineer, jazz musician and music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |