Hans-Günter Brodmann

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Hans-Günter Brodmann (born September 22, 1955 in Schönwald (Bavaria) ) is a German drummer of jazz and contemporary chamber music. Since 1997 Brodmann has also been working as a video artist and filmmaker .

Life

Musical work

From 1978 to 1984 Brodmann studied classical drums with Hermann Schwander at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg, which later became the Nuremberg University of Music . From 1987 he teaches there as a teacher for drum set and is the initiator and 1991 co-founder of the jazz department. Brodmann has been Professor of Jazz Drums at the Nuremberg University of Music since 2012. Among other things, the drummers Max Breu, Jan F. Brill , Ali Broumand, Roland Duckarm, Horst Faigle, Julian Fau, Florian Fischer, Andreas Gandela, Tilman Herpichböhm, Christoph Huber, Johannes Koch, Dominik Raab , Matthias Rosenbauer , Stefan Seegel studied with him , Oliver Steidle , Radek Szarek, Daniel Treimer.

Brodmann is a founding member of the percussion quartet CABAZA , with whom he released five albums for classic production osnabrück and went on concert tours to Hungary, Austria, Poland and Japan, and among others. a. performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival or at Musica Viva .

In 1987 his drum quartet for 6 tom toms and bass drum , Greetings to Hermann , was published by the music publisher Zimmermann.

Brodmann toured with jazz musicians such as Chris Speed , Frank Möbus , Rudi Mahall , Johannes Fink , Helmut Kagerer , Pierre Favre , Yogo pack , Joe Fonda , Herb Geller , Norbert Nagel , Jeanne Carroll († 2011), Jürgen Seefelder , Roberto di Gioia , Henning Sieverts or Ted Piltzecker. He had performances a. a. at the Jazz East-West Festival or the Ingolstadt Jazz Days , but also at the Kuwait Jazz Festival.

He was also involved in concerts and productions with symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles, such as B. Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra Pécs, Philharmonie Neubrandenburg, Nürnberger Symphoniker , with the KlangKonzepteEnsemble der Neue Pegnitzschäfer and the Pocket Opera Company . He also worked as a theater musician, composer and video artist at the Meiningen State Theater , the Residenztheater (Munich) and the Stadttheater Fürth .

Cinematic work

Hans-Günter Brodmann's first video work with the title "When all the senses quake" was created in 1997 - a video live music performance with cleverly "played in" smells, distributed sweets for snacking and live music. This was followed by other video projects with live music such as "gendeit "and" elevent "as well as commissioned work for VAG Nürnberg , N-ERGIE , adidas , Wittmann winery , NUREG, K&U die Weinhalle, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Keen United States, Shindaiwa United States.

In 2002 Brodmann shot his 70-minute film " Die Kachelzählerin " with co-director Veit Güssow and actress Marina Schütz in the Volksbad Nürnberg and was premiered in 2003 at the Blue Night . The film music was created together with the composer Frank Möbus .

The 2001 documentary "Frau Wesemann" about a corner shop in Nuremberg's Südstadt premiered in 2019 at the Nuremberg Art Theater Casablanca.

In addition, numerous video clips were made, published on YouTube .

Brodmann's film works appear under the label "breadman music & video production".

Prizes and awards

In 1992 Brodmann received the City of Nuremberg's Culture Promotion Prize and in 1995 the Wolfram-von-Eschenbach Prize (culture prize of the Central Franconia district ) with the percussion quartet CABAZA.

Discography (selection)

  • Klaus Loyalty Trio Nardis
  • Brodmann / package percussion duo "2-3-4"
  • CABAZA Percussion Quartet
  • Brodmann / Pausch Percussion Duo “Are you serious?” Jazz4Ever Records
  • CABAZA Vol.2
  • CABAZA "La Caccia"
  • Hans-Günter Brodmann "Musica Sacra - Percussion Fantasies"
  • Michael Zeller "My beautiful place"
  • CABAZA "In the Eye of the Storm"
  • Annie Gosfield Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery Tzadik
  • Myriam Marbe Myriam Marbe
  • CABAZA / Michael Ranta Yüen Shan

Lexical entries

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Greetings to Hermann ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikverlag-zimmermann.de
  2. ↑ Nardis
personal data
SURNAME Brodmann, Hans-Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drummer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönwald (Bavaria)