Hayden Chisholm

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Hayden Chisholm (2015)

Hayden Chisholm (born May 27, 1975 in Otahuhu near Auckland ) is a New Zealand jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer.

Live and act

Hayden Chisholm, Moers Festival 2007

Chisholm grew up in New Plymouth . He studied music in Switzerland, Greece, India, Yugoslavia, Japan and finally in Cologne , a. a. with Frank Gratkowski . Here he was in the 1990s through his collaboration a. a. known with Nils Wograms Root 70 , which continues to the present (2011). Since 1995 he has toured India, Europe, Africa and Latin America, among others with John Taylor . He released his debut album Circe in 1996.

Since 2002 Chisholm has been working with the action artist Rebecca Horn , for whose installations Light imprisoned in the belly of the whale (2002), Spiriti di Madreperla (2002) and Moon Mirror (2003) he composed the music. He works with Marcus Schmickler on the Amazing Daze project and, together with Gareth Lubbe and Claudio Bohórquez, forms the improvisation trio DOHA , with whom he also extends Root 70 to his The Embassadors . With Views of Hearts , the first box with 13 CDs was released in 2013, which are also available individually; Cusp of Oblivion followed in 2016 . He also worked as a saxophonist, clarinetist and occasionally keyboardist on albums by Underkarl around Sebastian Gramss , Antonis Anissegos , David Sylvian , Burnt Friedman , Jaki Liebezeit and others.

Chisholm was the protagonist in the documentary Sound of Heimat - Deutschland singt (2012) by Arne Birkenstock and Jan Tengeler. Because of his "unique sound aesthetics" he was awarded the SWR Jazz Prize in 2013 . In 2015 he worked in Moers as an “improviser in residence”.

Discographic notes

Albums under your own name

Hayden Chisholm at Michael Rüsenberg's jazzcity.de festival in the Loft (Cologne) on January 17, 2014
  • Circe , 2006, Jazzhaus Musik
  • Heaps Dub , with Root70, 2005, Nonplace
  • Amazing Daze with Marcus Schmickler, 2006, Haepna
  • Healing the Music with The Embassadors, 2007, Nonplace
  • Coptic Dub with The Embassadors, 2009, Nonplace
  • 13 Views of the Heart's Cargo (box set), 2002–2013, Moontower Foundation
    • Love in Numbers , 2013, Moontower Foundation
    • The Rabbit's Dream of the Inner Mongolia , 2013, Moontower Foundation (with Xu Fengxia
    • Nearness Live , 2013, Moontower Foundation (with Matt Penman , Jochen Rückert )
    • Lula Pena and Hayden Chisholm Live in Berlin , 2013, Moontower Foundation
    • Hayden plays Haydn , 2013, Moontower Foundation (with Simon Nabatov )
    • Mute Density with the Lucern Jazz Orchestra, 2013, Moontower Foundation
    • Fragmented Teaching , 2013, Moontower Foundation (with Simon Nabatov, Jochen Rückert)
    • The Dharma Cowboy , 2013, Moontower Foundation (with Bruno Müller, Norbert Scholly , Martin Gjakonovski , Gareth Lubbe, Claudio Bohorquez, Robert Nacken)
    • The Life of Hands in Love , 2013, Moontower Foundation with John Schröder , Achim Krämer , Franz Hautzinger , Dietmar Fuhr , Daniel Schröteler )
    • Breve - Live at Plush , 2006, Moontower Foundation (with John Taylor, Matt Penman)
    • The Well-Tempered Sruti Box , 2013, Moontower Foundation
    • Auto-Poetica - Works for Saxophone , 2013, Moontower Foundation (with Florian Bergmann , Pierre Borel , Oliver Gutzeit, Frank Gratkowski , Leo Huhn , Christian Weidner , Benjamin Weidekamp )
    • My Blood Flows from Scotland to Armenia , 2013, Moontower Foundation (with John Schröder, Pina Bettina Rücker)
  • Cusp Of Oblivion (2016, another 13 CD box, including Hayden Chisholm & Lucerne Jazz Orchestra feat. Lucia Cadotsch Ace of My Heart )

Albums in collaborative projects

  • Rebecca Horn - Hayden Chisholm: Music for Rebecca Horn's Installations Moon Mirror / Spiriti di Madreperla / Light imprisoned in the belly of the whale , book and 2 audio CDs, ISBN 978-3-935567-26-8 , 2005
  • Root70 Getting Rooted , 2004, Enja
  • Root70 with Strings Rio Mare , 2013, nwog records
  • Nautilus Infrablue 2016, Two Rivers Records (with Jürgen Friedrich, Robert Lucaciu , Philipp Scholz )
  • Sebastian Gramss Slowfox: Gentle Giants (2017) with Sebastian Gramss and Philip Zoubek

Web links

Commons : Hayden Chisholm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meeting ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2016 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. by Michael Rüsenberg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzcity-net-edition.de
  2. ↑ SWR Jazz Prize 2013
  3. ^ Moers Residency a Good Fit for Hayden Chisholm , All About Jazz, April 22, 2015, accessed May 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Chisholm, Hayden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Otahuhu near Auckland