Gert Anklam

Gert Anklam (* 1969 in Berlin ) is a German multi-instrumentalist and composer. His preferred instruments are the baritone and soprano saxophone and the Chinese mouth organ Sheng . He also plays the bamboo flutes Xiao and Suling , the reed instrument Duduk , the metallophone Gendèr and the so-called water sting organ . Anklam often uses the technique of circular breathing on wind instruments.

Life

In the GDR , Gert Anklam completed his vocational training as a toolmaker with the lamp manufacturer Narva . A first band came together in class, "The Toolmakers". In order not to fall under Section 249 of the Criminal Code after completing his training in the GDR - like other freelance musicians - Anklam worked as a pension payer. He mainly gave concerts in churches, among others with the saxophonist Andreas Kaufmann and the percussionist Steven Garling .

In 1993 he joined the Manfred Schulze wind quintet. There he took over the baritone parts of Manfred Schulze, who had Huntington's disease. With the Central German Saxophone Quartet there was a collaboration with the Tanzanian national ensemble, which aroused Gert Anklam's interest in world music . This led to trips and performances in the People's Republic of China , Indonesia ( Bali ), India and Japan . In Goa he studied Indian classical music with Maruti Kurdekar . At the same time, Gert Anklam began to develop a solo program on the baritone and soprano saxophone. This led to the first CD concert for b. , which was recorded in 1997 in the Völkerschlachtdenkmal Leipzig .

In 1999 Anklam got to know the Chinese instrumental virtuoso Wu Wei as part of the music project “Berlin - Shanghai, Dialogue of Sounds” and learned to play the Sheng from him . In the same year he founded the Duo Liquid Soul together with the percussionist Ulrich Moritz with the performer, taiko drummer and Kathak dancer Beate Gatscha . Gert Anklam has been composing music for plays and radio plays for WDR , Deutschlandradio , SWR and RBB, among others, since 1997 . Since 2006 Gert Anklam has been a member of the ensemble Nu: n , founded by Falk Zenker , that improvises on medieval music . In October 2012, the German-Japanese oratorio Sho Yoku Chi Shoku was premiered , the proceeds of which went to the victims of the Tōhoku earthquake .

Trivia

Gert Anklam had an appearance as Franzl in 1979 in the television film of the DFF Karlchen, persevered by Siegfried Hartmann .

Discography (selection)

Manfred Schulze Wind Quintet: Choral Concert / Free Music Production FMP CD 145
concert for b. (Solo) / Label Harp LA 75901
Liquid Soul - Music from Air and Water (with Beate Gatscha and Ulrich Moritz) / Raumer Records RR 14802
Liquid Soul - 1000 Kraniche (With Beate Gatscha, Ulrich Moritz, Karin Nakagawa, Cathrin Pfeifer, Sonny Thet) / Label Harp LA 7311
Liquid Soul - Sudah Mandi (with Beate Gatscha and Ravi Srinivasan) / Raumer Records
Space (Solo) / Unit - Records , released April 2018

With Ensemble Nu: n

Salute / surround sound RK 2407
Estampie / Raumklang RK 3307

Radio plays (selection)

The rebirth of the claqueur Idea and text: Gert Anklam and Maike Krause, director: Eberhard Klasse
SWR 2000 I'm so greedy for life , radio play about Brigitte Reimann , script and direction: Barbara Plensat , editor: Hilke Veth
NDR 2000 The wonderful world of Jean-Henri Fabre , author: Peter Steinbach , director: Marguerite Gatea, music: Gert Anklam / Rolf Fischer
Deutschlandradio 2002 The dark hour of the Serenissima radio play based on the crime novel by Donna Leon , music: Gert Anklam, Holger Mantey , director: Corinne Frottier , WDR 2003

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personal data
SURNAME	Anklam, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH	1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin