Hugo Siegmeth
Hugo Siegmeth (* 25. May 1970 in Arad , Romania ) is a German saxophonist of modern jazz and composer .
Live and act
Siegmeth, who immigrated to Germany with his family in 1976, studied his instrument with Leszek Zadlo at the Richard Strauss Conservatory from 1994 to 1999 ; He also studied composition with Stefan Zorzor and arrangement with Thomas Zoller . He performed with Al Porcino , Clark Terry Claudio Roditi and Peter Herbolzheimer and was one of the big bands of Harald Rüschenbaum and Dusko Goykovich as well as the Sunday Night Orchestra . In autumn 2000 he toured for the first time with his own band and released his first album on his own label. With Gerhard Gschlößl and Henning Sieverts he formed the TRiOzOne .
He was also a member of the Munich Composers and Improvisors Ensemble and the ZollSoung Chamber Orchestra . Since 2005 he has been a member of the Ensemble Sarband . He can also be heard on albums by ScatMax , Marc Sinan , Harry Scharf and Robert Probst . He also went on tour with the bands of Bobby Shew and Peter O'Mara and gave concerts with Helen Schneider and the Bremen Philharmonic . Siegmeth wrote the music for the feature film "Murderous Peace" by Rudi Schweiger (2007). Together with Robert Papst , he wrote the score for the documentary "Tell me where the beautiful are". In 2018 he wrote, also with Robert Papst, the music for the movie Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! . In 2004 he founded his own label Village Pond Records .
Prizes and awards
Siegmeth won the Bavarian Jazz Promotion Prize in 1998. He also received the "New Generations 2001" award from the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2008 he was at the Berlinale with the documentaries "Tell me where the beautiful are" and "Eye to eye". His soundtrack for “Murderous Peace” was also on the shortlist for the German Film Prize for Music 2008.
Discographic notes
- Trio Zone sky sounds (2004)
- Red Onions (with Carsten Daerr , Henning Sieverts, Bastian Jütte and others ACT 2006)
- ICI Ensemble & George Lewis (PAO 2007)
- Four Tenors (with Till Martin, Jason Seizer , Ulrich Wangenheim , Christian Elsässer , Henning Sieverts, Bastian Jütte; Nagel-Heyer Records 2011)
- Flow: Jazz and Renaissance from Italy to Brazil (with Axel Wolf; Oehms Classics 2015)
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 .
Web links
- Web presence
- Hugo Siegmeth at Discogs (English)
- Hugo Siegmeth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anja Blum: Cool songs for tough scenes . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 31, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed November 24, 2018]).
- ↑ A label for every musician: Jason Seizer, Hugo Siegmeth and André Nendza report on Jazzzeitung 4/2005, pp. 22–23
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siegmeth, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (saxophone) and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arad (Romania) |