Hans Steingen

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Hans Steingen (born April 1963 in Ratingen ) is a German musician , conductor , composer , arranger and music producer .

Life

Hans Steingen grew up in Lintorf, North Rhine-Westphalia . He had his first piano lessons at the age of three. In 1975 he appeared for the first time as a soloist in front of an audience and played in various groups and youth orchestras. At that time he became a member of the Lions Club Niederrhein. He then studied classical, jazz piano and composition. His teachers included Jordi Torra and Bernhard Bücker . In 1979 he began to experiment with computer-aided sound processing. Since then he has repeatedly spanned a range from classical to popular music. After graduating from the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck , he worked as a session musician in England and Germany from 1982 to 1984, gave seminars for computer-created music and gave various concerts as a soloist and in various ensembles. In 1985 he founded “Big Noise Recording Studio & Musicproduction” in Düsseldorf and subsequently worked for the WDR Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic . He also developed music for commercials, such as Everlasting Friends for Holsten Bier .

He took over as musical director at the Expo 2000 in Adolf Winkelmann's Deutschland.Pict in the German Pavilion and machined for this purpose pieces of Johann Sebastian Bach , Joseph Haydn , Hindemith and Kurt Weill . In the same year he was responsible for the music production for the opening events of the DTM and the Dortmund Forever exhibition . In 2002 and 2003 he gave several piano concertos with the key orchestra with music by George Gershwin and Shostakovich . Steingen gave three performances in 2005 as musical director and pianist with Antoschka , the clown of the Moscow State Circus , entitled Views of a Clown and The Little Prince, and in 2006 co-founded the World Parliament of Clowns . In the same year Steingen conducted the orchestra of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf . On the program was Anton Bruckner : Symphony No. 7, Edvard Grieg : Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and the overture Der Utopist .

Steingen had guest appearances on the albums Opium fürs Volk , Immortlich , Zurück zum Glück , Nur zu Visiting and In aller Stille der Band Die Toten Hosen . Steingen is responsible for various musical arrangements, songbooks and productions, including for the artists: Herwig Mitteregger , Michael Fitz , BAP , Guildo Horn , Peter Hofmann , Joy Fleming and Jason Hóman . He also wrote the music for a number of children's audio books and produced them together with Iris Gruttmann, including Annette Langen's Adventurous Letters from Felix and the stories from Schnappi and his friends .

Film music

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Steingen. In: Two thousand and one lexicon of international film .
  2. ↑ Hans Steingen in the Swiss hit parade
personal data
SURNAME Steingen, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, conductor, composer, arranger and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratingen