Henning Schmiedt
Henning Schmiedt (* 1965 in Schlema ) is a German pianist , composer , arranger and producer . He has composed several film and theater music and has worked as a composer, arranger, interpreter and producer on over 70 CDs with international artists such as Mikis Theodorakis , Maria Farantouri , Zülfü Livaneli and Jocelyn B. Smith .
Life
Schmiedt was born the son of a Protestant pastor who emigrated to the GDR in the late 1950s to do missionary work there. Schmiedt's brother is the guitarist and producer Wolfgang Schmiedt . From the age of seven, Henning Schmiedt received piano lessons and sang in church choirs. He later studied piano at the Rostock Conservatory and acquired knowledge of composition and arrangement. In 1985 Schmiedt began his professional career as a musician with the jazz formation College . Just a year later he was playing with soul singer Angelika Weiz , Wolfgang Fiedler's jazz rock band Fusion and the Latin jazz band Bossa-Nostra .
From 1989 he devoted himself to jazz and contemporary music and composed several music for films and theater. This was followed in 1990 by the first own concepts, the Isle of Eyesland projects, which also included a quartet with Falk Breitkreuz , Peter Machailow and Thomy Jordi.
Collaboration with Mikis Theodorakis and Maria Farantouri
By participating in the production of Theodorakis sings Theodorakis in 1991, he met the Greek composer, writer and politician Mikis Theodorakis , whom he accompanied on his European tour four years later. There Schmiedt met Maria Farantouri . He became arranger and musical director of the European tour “Poetica” by Maria Farantouri and a year later the European tour for the “Asmata” production (Mikis Theodorakis and Maria Farantouri). Much more joint work followed.
Collaboration with Jocelyn B. Smith
This was not his only cross-cultural and cross-border encounter. In 1992 he became a member of the new soul band Maxx-Baby and the German-Turkish line-up TAKSIM around the singer Sema . In addition, a year later he worked with the singer Jocelyn B. Smith , which lasted until 2008 , during which various publications such as the CD Blue Light & Nylons were created, for which he received the Jazz Award from the Federal Association of the Phonographic Industry for his achievements as arranger and producer was awarded. In addition, he accompanied Jocelyn B. Smith on various tours and concerts such as the central ecumenical memorial service for the victims of the flood disaster in South Asia in 2005 and the benefit concert by RBB Radio Multikulti , which was performed live across Germany's borders with the support of Deutsche Welle out to Asia and Australia, Africa and Europe. In addition, several radio stations in Europe, the USA and Asia were connected live.
Further important appearances and collaborations
Schmiedt was also a pianist in The Silent Jazz Ensemble for a while . In 1999 he was the first German to give a concert at the “ Holocaust Memorial Museum ” in Washington with Maria Farantouri with an arrangement of the Mauthausen cycle for voice, piano, cello and live electronics. Schmiedt arranged the music for the symphonic millennium event on the Acropolis with Mikis Theodorakis and the orchestra of the Athens Opera. The concert was broadcast to 800 million people by the BBC and CNN. Also in 2000 he took part in the Concert for Peace with the participation of Maria Farantouri and Zülfü Livaneli in the Townhall New York.
In December 2004 and March 2005, the Requiem Paula was co-produced with the RBB, soloists Hagen Matzeit and Jocelyn B. Smith . The content of the work is based on the autobiographical texts of the German-Japanese artist Heinrich Johann Radeloff and describes the discovery of a girl and her family who perished in the last days of the Second World War. Henning Schmiedt chose the form of the requiem, the funeral mass, to set text passages to music. Since the name Paula can be found in many languages around the world, Schmiedt dedicated the Requiem to all Paulas, all children who become victims of war in different ways. The use of the children's choir of the Komische Oper Berlin achieved a corresponding effect in the performance of the work.
Other prominent crossroads with well-known musicians resulted from various projects and CD recordings with, among others, Bobby Previte , Volker Schlott , Charles Lloyd , Halil Karaduman , Petros Pandis , Okay Temiz , Al di Meola , Ara Dinkjian , Attila Engin , Ilhan Ersahin , Georgeos Theodorakis , John Tchicai , Dudu Tucci , Lauren Newton , Max Rebensburg and Lakis Karnezis .
Discography
Composer & performer
- 1996 - PAmagieRA Peregrina PM 50081
- 1999 - Okanagan Pamagiera Peregrina PM50181
- 2000 - Beware of greeks bearing guns - Film music with Mikis Theodorakis Universal-Mercury
- 2001 - Picture associations with Kurt Weill Peregrina PM 50282
- 2001 - Kurt Weill - The music for the film Peregrina PM 50292
- 2002 - Back To Soul Jocelyn B. Smith
- 2006 - New & used 2 - Sampler Yellowjacket
- 2007 - Peregrina piano room
- 2007 - new & used 3 - Sampler Yellowjacket
- 2007 - Requiem Hagen Matzeit, Jocelyn B. Smith, children's choir of the Komische Oper Berlin / Neuklang
- 2007 - Peter Dahm & Henning Schmiedt PH Yellowjacket
- 2008 - Pago Balke Peter Dahm & Henning Schmiedt Who needs humor? Yellowjacket
- 2008 - Gert Hof Soundtrack for A Ship Of Light Monogenuss Records
- 2008 - new & used 4 Sampler Yellowjacket
- 2009 - Clouds Flat - Tokyo
- 2010 - new & used 6 Sampler Yellowjacket
- 2011 - new & used 7 Sampler Yellowjacket
- 2011 - today Pago Pago Balke starfish music
- 2011 - Walk Solo Piano Flat - Tokyo
Arranger & interpreter
- 1987 - Kleeblatt - sampler with BOSSA NOSTRA AMIGA
- 1988 - full board - Pension Volkmann AMIGA 856276
- 1993 - Traumtaenzer Pension Volkmann Buschfunk0021-2
- 1994 - Kindertotenlieder adaptation of the Mahler song cycle Klangraeume 30140
- 1996 - POETICA Mikis Theodorakis & Maria Farantouri Peregrina 500612
- 1998 - ASMATA Mikis Theodorakis & Maria Farantouri Peregrina 50131
- 1998 - Nothing in mind George Theodorakis Peregrina 50121
- 1998 - Blue light & nylons Jocelyn B. Smith Blondell JBS 145
- 1999 - Voices for Peace Jocelyn B. Smith Compilation by FGF BMG 74321685132
- 2000 - Margarita Jocelyn B. Smith, Mikis Theodorakis Blondell-Productions JBS 126
- 2000 - Happy Birthday, Mikis! Maria Farantouri, Maria del Mar Bonet, Jocelyn B. Smith, Petros Pandis, Petr Migunov , Mikis Theodorakis Tropical Music 68.813
- 2000 - Pergrina's Dreamworld Sampler Maria Farantouri, Mikis Theodorakis, Pamagiera, Sema, eorge Theodorakis Pergrina Music PM 50231
- 2001 - My Christmas Experience Jocelyn B. Smith Blondell jbs 306 and others
- 2001 - Nostalgia Sampler Maria Farantouri
- 2001 - Festivales de Navarra Sampler Maria Farantouri and others
- 2003 - The Faces of Jocelyn B. Smith Blondell Prod. JBS 115
- 2004 - Maria Farantouri / Jannis Vakarelis Legend
- 2005 - SEMA and Henning Schmiedt Ilahiler Ve Nevesler-Mystische Sufigesänge Peregrina Music PM
- 2005 - Zülfü Livaneli / Maria Farantouri I Minimi Tou Nerou Legend
- 2005 - Mikis Theodorakis First Songs Intuition
- 2005 - A journey through time and the world SamplerPeregrina Music
- 2006 - Mikis Theodorakis Kostas Kariotakis-The Metamorphoses of Dionysus Chamber music version of the opera Intuition
- 2007 - Maria Farantouri-Way home Peregrina Music
- 2008 - Jocelyn B. Smith Zulfu Livaneli Maria Farantouri Livaneli Sarkilari ida muesik
- 2008 - Star of Christmas with Tomoko Masur, Koko taylor, Sylvain Fournier
- 2010. ΜΙΚΗΣ ΘΕΟΔΩΡΑΚΗΣ - ΜΑΡΙΑ ΦΑΡΑΝΤΟΥΡΗ ΤΟΥ ΕΡΩΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥ Modern Times- Legend
- 2011 - Ferne Peter Dahm and Henning Schmiedt
Interpreter
- 1990 - The East Berlin Guest Orchestra - College (Zong 2170011)
- 1991 - Theodorakis sings Theodorakis - Mikis Theodorakis (Intuition Records)
- 1992 - Heimat - Angelika Weiz and GVO (BAM)
- 1993 - Born of Music -Jocelyn B. Smith (Blondell Productions)
- 1994 - Free -Angelika Weiz (BAM)
- 1995 - Sihir SEMA & Taksim (Peregrina 50021)
- 1995 - Friedemann (beaver)
- 1995 - The Birthday Concert`95 Mikis Theodorakis & Maria Farantouri (Tropical Music 68974)
- 1997 - Together Mikis Theodorakis & Zuelfue Livaneli (Tropical Music 68987)
- 1997 - Live in Berlin Jocelyn B. Smith (Blondell CD205)
- 1997 - On a Personal Note Friedemann (Biber 66651)
- 1997 - Sings His Songs Mikis Theodorakis (Peregrina 50111)
- 1998 - Guitars & Organs Wolfgang Schmiedt (Sound Spaces 30360)
- 1999 - Symphonietta-Etat de Siege Mikis Theodorakis (Intuition INT 3259-2)
- 2000 - Mauthausen Trilogy Mikis Theodorakis (plaene 88840)
- 2004 - Jocelyn B. Smith Phenomenal Woman (Blondell)
- 2004 - Telmo Pires Passos (dream tone)
- 2006 - Jocelyn B. Smith Expressionzz (Blondell)
producer
- 1993 - Traumdancer Pension Volkmann for Buschfunk
- 1996 - POETICA Mikis Theodorakis & Maria Farantouri for Peregrina
- 1998 - ASMATA Mikis Theodorakis & Maria Farantouri for Peregrina
- 1998 - Nothing in mind George Theodorakis for Peregrina 50121
- 1998 - Blue light & nylons Jocelyn B. Smith for Blondell
- 2000 - Margarita Jocelyn B. Smith, Mikis Theodorakis for Blondell-Productions
- 2000 - Beware of greeks bearing guns - Film music with Mikis Theodorakis for Universal-Mercury
- 2001 - My Christmas Experience Jocelyn B. Smith for Blondell
- 2005 - Zülfü Livaneli / Maria Farantouri I Minimi Tou Nerou Legend
- 2005 - Mikis Theodorakis First Songs Intuition
- 2006 - Mikis Theodorakis Kostas Kariotakis-The Metamorphoses of Dionysus Chamber music version of the opera Intuition
- 2007 - Maria Farantouri-Way home Peregrina Music
Teaching
- 2002 - Lecturer in the Ars and Lectures program at the University of California at Santa Barbara (Artist in residence-Maria Farantouri), also concerts at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and at Cornell University; Ithaka NY as musical director of the Berlin instrumentalists
- 2003 - Lecturer and juror at the jazz workshop of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Music Council
- 2005 - with Jocelyn B. Smith - Workshop Görlitz
- 2007 - China tour with Ensemble Linktogether - with the support of the Goethe-Institut Workshops, masterclasses in Nanjing Art Academie and Gaoyou
- 2010 - International Theodorakis Academy in Bremen and Thessaloniki
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ taz from 7./8. July 2018, p. 23
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmiedt, Henning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist, composer, arranger and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schlema , Karl-Marx-Stadt district |