Hannes Beckmann (composer)

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Hannes Beckmann (born August 24, 1950 in Bielefeld ; † March 17, 2016 in Munich ) was a German jazz violinist , band leader and composer .

Live and act

He received his first violin from his great-grandfather when he was six. After taking classes with the family, Beckmann studied violin at the Conservatory in Düsseldorf, and from 1970 to 1974 composition and law in Munich. As a 17-year-old drummer he recorded his first album, but soon discovered his skills as a violinist. At first he played with his own formations in public places and in swing bands of the Reinhardt and Weiss families , as well as in the avant-garde ensemble "Between", which Peter Michael Hamel co-founded.

Through playing in the orchestra of the Ballet Brasiliana , he came into contact with Brazilian music and the percussionists Charles Campbell, Pery dos Santos and Edir dos Santos. In 1972 he founded the Afro-Brazilian jazz band SINTO with them , which had been involved in the Schwabing jazz scene for years and gave more than 1,800 concerts in Western and Eastern Europe and Japan by 1985. From 1981, wind players like Johannes Faber or Roman Schwaller were replaced by vibraphonists like Werner Pirchner , Tom van der Geld , Paul van Lier or Woody Schabata . In 1978 Hannes Beckmann recorded the MPS album "The Gipsy Jazz Violin Summit" with the violinists Zipflo Reinhardt and Schmitto Kling . In the early 1980s he also appeared in a duo with Pery dos Santos as well as with Baden Powell and Attila Zoller . In 1985 he founded the Hannes Beckmann Quartet .

Since 1990 he was a co-founder on the board of the Jazzmusiker-Initiative München eV (JIM) and played a key role in the organization of the Munich Jazz Festival , which he co-founded in 1990. In 1990 Hannes Beckmann founded the Munich Violin Summit with Jörg Widmoser and Mic Oechsner ; later concerts with the Gipsy Jazz Violin Summit (Hannes Beckmann, Zipflo Reinhardt, Zipflo Weinrich and later with Harri Stojka and Biréli Lagrène ) followed. From 1992 Beckmann also organized the jazz nights in the Prinzregententheater . In 1993 he played at the Munich Jazz Festival a. a. with Philip Catherine , Dusko Goykovich , Jimmy Woode , Alvin Queen , Clark Terry .

In his various formations and productions, in addition to the aforementioned, among others, the guitarists Bireli Lagrene, Nathan Page, Pery dos Santos, the winds Steve Gut, Frank St. Peter , Bobby Stern , Bill Saxton , Hermann Breuer , Claus Reichstaller , Harry " Sweets “Edison, Red Holloway, Johannes Enders , Thomas Zoller , the singers Bob Chisolm, Jenny Evans , the drummers / percussionists Imre Köszegi , Dom Um Romao , Harald Rüschenbaum , Edir dos Santos, Charly Antolini , Charles Campbell, Cesar Granados, Ray Mantilla , the bassists Michael Blam, Wolfgang Schmid , Rudi Schröder, the pianists Edgar Wilson, Larry Porter , Joe Kienemann , Tizian Jost , Konstantin Kostov, members of the project "Jazz improvisation for strings" which he founded in 2001 at the Munich Conservatory . a. his current assistants, the violinists Niki Kampa, Julian Merkle, Zipflo Reinhardt, Zipflo Weinrich, Jörg Widmoser, Sreten Krstic. Beckmann was also involved in domestic and foreign radio and television productions.

Compositions

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Beckmann was involved as a composer, interpreter and organizer in the German and European jazz scene. In his compositions he integrated ethnic influences from Central Europe and the Balkans, from Brazil, Argentina and the Caribbean, from Arabia and Africa with elements of classical music and jazz. He interpreted his compositions himself, and his contacts in the European and international music scene enabled him to put together new formations of soloists again and again.

He also developed multimedia programs, i.e. programs that combine painting and music, such as The Blue Crown - Stations of the Cross , a composition commissioned by the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising for the pictures of the painter Caesar W. Radetzky and the meditations of Abbot Odilo Lechner , The Three World Religions ( world premiere at Jazzfest Munich 2010) with Cäsar Radetzky and Niki Kampa or at the same time (world premiere Jazzfest München 1995), a multimedia performance with the artist Haralampi Oroschakoff.

The "orientalization" of the southern Munich Bahnhofsviertel, in which he had lived since his student days, increased his interest in oriental music, and this is how his main orchestral work so far, the ethnically influenced cycle "Canto Migrando for large, unusually cast orchestra", was played by the "PHILHARMONIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA", which he founded and conducts, which unites among other things jazz strings and a horn section as well as a very large percussion group with classical percussion, but also with oriental and Afro-Brazilian instruments. On behalf of the Ministry of Culture, he prepared a performance of this project with professionals, schoolchildren and students for the cultural program of the 2006 Football World Cup, which was followed by other large open air events (e.g. at the Munich that was specially closed for the Munich 850th anniversary celebration Stachus). Many other appearances with this project, funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs and the European Integration Fund (EIF) , followed. As part of his efforts to promote integration policy, he developed a project for the European Social Fund (ESF) that aimed to integrate unemployed migrants into the labor market (focus on music lessons, orchestral and business studies and certified language lessons).

His composition Canto Migrando , a suite for a large, unusual orchestra, soloists and choir, was regularly performed live under his direction. For the 100th anniversary of the Munich Philharmonic, movements from the orchestral work European Suite, which he composed, were performed.

Beckmann also developed art concepts for industry (e.g. the “Music Merger” concept developed for Mercedes with a European patent) and for science congresses (focus on medicine “Pleasure and Suffering” together with Prof. Molls from the Technical University of Munich, media).

The hit song I live for HipHop , performed in 2000 by DJ Tomekk, has sold millions of times and is a sample of eight bars from Beckmann's composition Outra Vez (recorded by Hannes Beckmann's Sinto on the Sonho Negro album ). The authorship of Beckmann and a corresponding participation in the royalties was established after a long process through a recorded settlement of the Munich Regional Court in September 2004. The song Mehr by the group Blumentopf, which is also sold in large numbers, legally uses a sample from Beckmann's production Sonho Negro , this time by Vamos par Georgia .

Teaching activities

In 1995 Beckmann became professor for jazz violin in Belgrade. Since 2001 he has had a teaching position at the University of Music and Theater in Munich , where he was in charge of the project he designed, “Jazz improvisation, free play, ethnic elements for string instruments”.

Festivals

International Jazz Week Burghausen , Jazz Festival Munich, Jazz East-West , Frankfurt, Singen, Bach Festival Würzburg, Villingen, Vilshofen, Speyer, Danube Island Festival Vienna, Neuchatel, Sion, Cully, Bordeaux, Aix en Provence, Belgrade, Bratislava, Sapporo, Kyoto, Budapest, Szekesfehervary, Odessa, Shabatz, Tel Aviv, Ashdod, Kempten, Tschirgart Jazzfestival Imst

Recordings

Beckmann created and interpreted 140 songs and instrumentals, including serious music. Many compositions and interpretations of works by other artists have so far appeared on CD in different formations:

  • Sinto - Sonho Negro (1978): Hannes Beckmann (violin), Charles Campbell (congas), Johannes Faber (trumpet, flugelhorn, mellaphone), Anatal Gerasimov (tenor saxophone, flute), Felicia King (vocals), Jimmy Polivka (trumpet), Ken Rhodes (piano), Pery dos Santos (lead vocals, berimbao, percussion), Ken Taylor (bass), Edir dos Santos (drums); Production AMAYANA, Trixi-Studio, Munich; Reissued by Spinning Wheel Records. Own compositions by Hannes Beckmann and Pery dos Santos, arrangements by Hannes Beckmann
  • Other Sinto albums are: Right on Brother 1972 A now German teacher Peter Holzwig sits on the keyboard (from his biography "The fellows"), Tango des Friedens 1981, Intercontinental Reflections 1984, original compositions by Hannes Beckmann and Pery dos Santos, arrangements by Hannes Beckmann
  • MC production When a Gipsy Meets Brazil together with Pery dos Santo 1980 own compositions by Hannes Beckmann and Pery dos Santos
  • The Violin Man (1995): Hannes Beckmann (violin), Edgar Wilson (piano), Rudi Schröder (bass), Alvin Queen (drums) (Hannes Beckmann Quartet); Production: Hannes Beckmann, Trixi-studio. Own compositions and arrangements by Hannes Beckmann
  • Violin Tales (1999): Hannes Beckmann (violin), Edgar Wilson (piano), Michael Blam (bass), Imre Kőszegi (drums); TUTU Records, Starnberg; Production: Pasparamas Music. All compositions and arrangements by Hannes Beckmann
  • The Blue Crown Stations of the Cross (1999): Hannes Beckmann (violin), Klaus Kreuzeder (soprano saxophone), Pery dos Santos (vocals), Tizian Jost (keyboards), Andy Lutter (organ), Michael Blam (double bass), Imre Kőszegi (drums ); all titles composed and arranged by Hannes Beckmann, with the exception of Pater Noster - composed by Pery dos Santos, arranged by Hannes Beckmann; Recording: Bayerischer Rundfunk , March 25, 1999 in the basilica of the St. Boniface Abbey (Munich) ; New edition 2005
  • Canto Migrando (University of Music and Theater Munich, 2007): Hannes Beckmann (conductor, violin), Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra and soloists Niki Kampa (concertmaster, violin), Claus Reichstaller (trumpet), Michael Lutzeier (baritone saxophone), Johannes Enders (tenor saxophone) , Johannes Herrlich (trombone), Cajus (flowerpot) (vocals), Edgar Wilson (piano), Michael Blam (bass), Imre Köszegi (drums); all titles composed and arranged by Hannes Beckmann with the exception of Migration Hymne - composed by Hannes Beckmann, arranged by Niki Kampa; CD label: Jaro Medien .
  • The Beckmann / dos Santos song Paz e amor by Sonho Negro was released as a single reissue on vinyl on Tramp Records in 2008.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Hochkeppel: Obituary - Jazz violinist Hannes Beckmann died . Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 17, 2016.
  2. ^ Altstadtringfest - program of events for the 850th anniversary of Munich . Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010, accessed on June 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ Teachers at the University of Music and Theater in Munich . Retrieved June 11, 2012.
  4. ^ Munich Jazz Festival . Retrieved June 11, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Beckmann, Hannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz violinist, band leader and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH 17th March 2016
Place of death Munich