Helmut Kassner (musician)

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Helmut Kassner (born November 17, 1960 in Giarmata , Romania ) is a German music teacher , trumpeter , orchestra conductor and composer .

Career

Helmut Kassner comes from a family whose existence in the Banat Swabian village of Jahrmarkt / Giarmata can be traced back to around 1800. In the family, which bore the surname Kaszner from the Austro-Hungarian period, there have been several musicians in the last three generations. 1956 founded Johann Kaszner sen. (1927–2008) a successful band in the Banat. His sons Helmut and Johann Kaszner both became professional musicians with similar backgrounds .

Helmut Kassner got his first knowledge of music from his father. After primary school in the hometown he attended from the 5th year the "Ion Vidu" Music High School in Timisoara / Timişoara and then the "Gheorghe Dima" Conservatory in Cluj / Cluj-Napoca , study trumpet. In 1982 he interrupted his studies at this music college and fled to Germany with his brother from communist Romania . Here he continued his studies at the Karlsruhe University of Music. In 1992 he finished it with a "very good" from Adolf Weresch.

Helmut Kassner had a temporary contract as first trumpeter at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern , played as a temporary trumpeter at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and in the Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen . He often occupies the desk for the first trumpeter in the musicals "Miss Saigon", "Beauty and the Beast", "Cats", "Dance of the Vampires", "Phantom of the Opera", "42 Second Street", which are running in Stuttgart "," Elisabeth "," The Three Musketeers "and" The Best of Musicals on Tour ". He plays the first flugelhorn at Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten and has been playing under Ernst Mosch since 1990 . He also played in the bands of Michael Klostermann and Roland Kohler. He also plays classical wind music in various formations and has also played in the dance orchestra Das Schwabenecho , which his brother founded in the 1980s . As a trumpeter he has produced his own CD.

He teaches at the music school in Ehingen (Danube) and in brass music at TSV Sondelfingen and in the music club Öpfingen . Until 2012, Helmut Kassner conducted the brass orchestra of the Dusslingen Music Association . Helmut Kassner also composes and works as an arranger. His pieces are in the tradition of the Bohemian brass music, which was already influenced by Ernst Mosch. They are recorded on sound carriers by Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten and are also played by other brass bands.

Helmut Kassner lives in Reutlingen , Baden-Württemberg.

Works

  • A song for you (for solo trumpet)
  • Greetings to Upper Carniola (Polka)
  • Tango of love (for solo trumpet)
  • Between the mountains (for solo trumpet)
  • Spring awakening (waltz)
  • Greetings to the homeland (polka)
  • My beautiful Egerland (polka)
  • Enjoy your life every day (Polka)

Sound carrier

  • Helmut Kassner & Friends: Trumpet greetings ; ALPANA Musik & Film GmbH; CD 28046
  • The Egerland musicians - the original: brass music in the heart ; KOCH MUSIKVERLAGE GmbH, 2001; MC / CD 224./324.760
  • Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten: Right in the heart ; ECHO MUSIKVERLAG GmbH, 2003; CD 06024 9809869
  • Ernst Hutter & Egerländer Musicians: Star Edition ; KOCH UNIVERSAL MUSIC, 2007; CD 06025 1720383
  • Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten: Bohemian Gold (CD2) ; KOCH UNIVERSAL MUSIC, 2008; CD 06025 1753457
  • Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten: Joy of life ; KOCH UNIVERSAL MUSIC, 2010; CD 06025 2748124
  • Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten: Stay true to yourself! ; HutterMusic GmbH, 2010; MHU 001

literature

  • Franz Junginger: Ortssippenbuch of the Catholic parish Jahrmarkt / Banat and its parish branches, 1730–2007, Volume II K – Q ; Ed .: Hometown Community Fair; Ulm 2008
  • Robert Rohr: Our sounding legacy - From the musical life of the Danube Swabians from 1918 to the present ; Publishing house of the Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, Munich, 1994; ISBN 3-926276-20-7
  • Robert Rohr: Our sounding legacy - On the musical culture of the Danube Swabians ; Publishing house of the Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, Munich, 2001; ISBN 3-926276-44-4
  • Stephan-Heinrich Pollmann: Banat Swabian and Transylvanian brass bands and music groups in Germany; Self-published, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1995

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personal data
SURNAME Kassner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher, trumpeter, orchestra leader and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Giarmata , Romania