Jürgen Friedrich (pianist)

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Jürgen Friedrich at Michael Rüsenberg's jazzcity.de festival in the Loft (Cologne) on January 17th, 2014

Jürgen Friedrich (* 1970 in Braunschweig ) is a German jazz pianist.

Life

Friedrich studied at the Cologne University of Music with John Taylor , Joachim Ullrich and Bill Dobbins . He has been teaching composition and arrangement at the Mannheim University of Music since 1993 , where he has been professor of arrangement and composition in the field of “jazz / popular music” since 2006. From 2004 to 2006 he was professor for piano at the Hamburg University of Music .

Friedrich worked with the Sunday Night Orchestra . He appears with the trio Friedrich- Moreno - Hébert and a quartet with Norbert Scholly , Phil Rehm and Christian Thomé (often with Kenny Wheeler ). He also worked with musicians such as David Liebman , Celine Rudolph , Nils Wogram , Matthias Bergmann and Johannes Ludwig .

Awards

For his compositions for jazz orchestra he has received several national and international prizes, including the Gil Evans Prize for Jazz Composition 1997, 1st Prize of the Julius Hemphill Composition Award 1998 and 2002 of the Jazz Composer's Alliance , 2nd Prize of the Barga International Competition of Arrangement and Composition 1998 , the jazz / improvised music award from the city of Cologne in 2000 and the JazzIN composition award from the state of Lower Saxony in 2005 . In 2017 he received the WDR Jazz Prize in the improvisation category .

Discographic notes

Jürgen Friedrich 2014
  • main stream (tomatic7), 1999
  • Gabriel Pérez Group la chipaca (1999)
  • IASJ Gala Concert feat ( Michael Brecker and Dave Liebman ), 1999 * IASJ Gala Concert feat (Michael Brecker and Dave Liebman), 1999
  • Summerflood (Juergen Friedrich-Quartet and Kenny Wheeler; CTI Records 1999)
  • Convincing (Big Band Blechschaden and Bob Mintzer ), 2000
  • Alfonsina (Gabriel Pérez Group), 2001
  • Voyage Out (Trio Friedrich-Hébert-Moreno), 2001
  • Surfacing (Trio Friedrich-Hébert-Moreno), 2001
  • Christian Winninghoff Color Music (Jazz 'n Arts Records, 2003)
  • Ithamara Koorax & Jürgen Friedrich Autumn In New York (2003)
  • Resistance (Trio Friedrich-Hebert-Moreno), 2003
  • Juergen Friedrich's Bits & Pieces , 2004
  • Seismo (Trio Friedrich-Hébert-Moreno; Pirouet Records , 2006)
  • Pollock (Trio Friedrich-Hébert-Moreno; Pirouet, 2009)
  • Monosuite (sequence String Orchestra featuring Hayden Chisholm , Achim Kaufmann , John Hébert, John Hollenbeck ; Pirouet 2012)
  • Reboot (Nwog Records 2014, with David Helm & Fabian Arends )
  • Nautilus: Infrablue (Two Rivers Records, 2016, with Hayden Chisholm, Philipp Scholz , Robert Lucaciu )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dormagener Böckamp receives Jazz Prize in NGZ (online) (accessed December 1, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig