Jan F. Kurth

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Jan Friedrich Kurth (born September 9, 1982 in Preetz ) is a German jazz and improvisation musician ( vocals , electronics, composition).

Live and act

Kurth comes from a musical family (his father is the pianist and music editor Ulrich Kurth, his younger brother the guitarist Matthias Kurth) and grew up in Cologne. He initially devoted himself to playing the recorder and, rather by chance, jumped in as a singer in the school band when he was 14. It was only at the age of 19 that he decided to go for jazz and completed training at the Cologne Jazzhaus School . At the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden , he studied jazz singing with Celine Rudolph from 2003 to 2008 and recorder with Uta Schmidt, and from 2010 to 2013 film music with Cornelius Schwehr at the Freiburg University of Music.

He presented his first album with the Lautstark 4 quartet . In the shortlivemusic project , he meets experimental short films. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Freiburg F-Orkestra led by Harald Kimmig . With the director Jörg Behr he developed a piece on the border between musical theater and drama based on Euripides ' Helena . In 2014 he was responsible for the music for the Ludwigshafen production of Gilgamesch , directed by Hansgünther Heyme . He also composed the music for various films, most recently for Sehweise (2017) by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein . He also improvises in the Duo Vokal Experimental and in a duo with laptop musician Ephraim Wegner, explores the music of King Crimson with The Swindlers and performs in solo concerts.

Discography (selection)

  • Lautstark 4 Autark ( JazzHausMusik 2008, with Matthias Kurth, Demian Kappenstein, Lutz Streun)
  • Jan F. Kurth & Ephraim Wegner Rare Bird (2014)
  • Mahaphon Clang Mela Thing (Morgenland / Jazzwerkstatt 2016, with Demian Kappenstein, Matthias Kurth, Ramesh Shotham )
  • The Swindlers Talk! ( Unit Records 2017, with Jonathan Sell, Konrad Wiemann, Nico Hutter)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b entry (film portal)
  2. ↑ Brief portrait (Art Foundation)
  3. ↑ In the Twilight of Mortality Mannheimer Morgen , October 11, 2014
  4. ↑ State show (SWR 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Kurth, Jan F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurth, Jan Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and improvisation musician (vocals, live electronics, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Preetz