German Marstatt

German Marstatt (* around 1965) is a German jazz trumpeter (also baritone horn , cornet , alto horn , flugelhorn ) and university lecturer.

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Marstatt grew up in East Westphalia-Lippe ; at the age of eight he played the trumpet in the local trombone choir. After graduating from high school, he studied classical trumpet at the Detmold University of Music . He then continued his studies at the Hilversum Conservatory, where he had lessons with Ack van Rooyen and obtained his jazz diploma. He first taught at the Marburg Music School, after which he was a lecturer at the Institute for Music at the University of Kassel . Currently (2016) he teaches ear training and instrumental lessons at the University of Giessen.

In 1983 Marstatt took part in the Pop '83 Young Talent Festival of the Deutsche Phono-Akademie eV. Since the 1990s he worked a. a. with Gabriele Hasler , Jörn Schipper's Blue Room Ensemble ( Solitude 1993) and the Frankfurt Jazz Big Band (under the direction of Wilson de Oliveira ), with whom he recorded several albums such as Tribute to Duke Ellington (1999). Marstatt was also a member of the Franco-German jazz ensemble, the Würzburg Jazz Orchestra and the Markus Geiselhart Orchestra Vienna. He leads his own wind quartet Blow Up (with Detlef Landeck, among others ). He is also a trumpeter of the "Mutare Ensemble" for new music in Frankfurt. With Manfred Honetschläger and Peter Reiter-Schaub he composed “Jazz Mass: Mass for Our Time” (1999); he also wrote the work "Response" and published the two-volume street band Real Book for children (2013/15).

Web links

• Portrait at Marburg Music School
• German Marstatt at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bigband VfL Marburg ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.