Heiner Franz
Heiner Franz (born July 3, 1946 in Tübingen ) is a German jazz guitarist and music producer .
Live and act
Franz started out as an amateur musician; He studied Protestant theology from 1966 to 1972 , then worked as a religion teacher, from 1973 as vicar and from 1975 as parish priest. In 1979 he resigned from church service and worked as a freelance musician. He worked as a studio musician with the Saarland Radio Dance Orchestra and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as with his own groups and as a composer and producer of film scores. In 1988 he founded his label Jardis ; At times he was also involved in building guitars and had his own workshop. He plays the banjo at the Blue Jazzniks with Siggi Gerhard , Klaus Lohfink and Achim Hamacher . He can be heard on phonograms with Louis Stewart, Peter Leitch, Kevin Dean, Brainstream and the European Jazz Guitar Orchestra (1993, with Maarten van der Grinten , Doug Raney , Frédéric Sylvestre and Louis Stewart) and founded the International Jazz Guitar Meeting in 1996 Spiesen-Elversberg , which took place three times until 1999. He also worked as a lecturer at international jazz workshops and at music academies.
Prizes and awards
In 2006 he received the Archtop Germany Award .
Lexical entries
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franz, Heiner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz guitarist and music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |