Jan Hermerschmidt

Jan Hermerschmidt (born May 4, 1966 in East Berlin ) is a German clarinetist.

Life

Jan Hermerschmidt started playing the clarinet at the age of nine. He is a studio musician in Germany, especially for Jewish and Balkan music. He is also an arranger and theater musician and teaches clarinet in Berlin.

Musical curriculum vitae

After initially learning the recorder, he received clarinet lessons from Alexander Thiem and Manfred Michel at the Friedrichshain Music School from 1975 . From 1978 to 1984 he attended the EOS "Georg-Friedrich-Händel" in Berlin-Friedrichshain , a special school for music. There he received special training in chamber music, orchestra, choir and music theory.

After graduating from high school and doing military service in a music corps , he studied clarinet and music education with Manfred Rümpler from 1987 to 1992 at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin . During his studies he began to deal with styles of music outside of classical music. Since 1988 he has been a clarinetist with the German band Aufwind , which plays Yiddish songs and klezmer .

In 1992 he met Simon-Jakob Drees. They played together in the band Ahava Raba , which deals freely and improvisationally with klezmer, but also other styles of music. He continued his musical experiments with Volker Schindel, an accordionist, pianist and educator. He worked on one of his chamber music projects. Schindel and Hermerschmidt later founded the duo Musette Brachiale . There, the mix between tradition and improvisation is the most important requirement.

The clarinet is an instrument widely used in European cultures. So he occupied himself with this music in numerous bands. 1997–2000 Yerevan, Bulgarian-, Serbian-, Armenian-, since 1998 Zotos Kompania, Rembetiko-, since 1998 Nevzat Akpinar, Turkish-, 2003–2009 Iki Dünya Turkish, since 2006 Dr. Schuherski Trio, Klesmer, since 2009 Caj, Balkan music. He has been a member of the Alec Wilder Octett since 2004 and plays with Berlin jazz musicians.

He often played as an accompanist for songwriters, since 1992 with Karsten Troyke and Trio Scho , 1996–2005 with Hans-Eckardt Wenzel , 1998 with Masen, 2000–2003 with Steffen Mensching , since 2006 with Spreefalter and since 2008 with Aurora Lacasa .

He also often works at the theater as a musician, 1992–1995 at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater , 1998–2009 Children's Opera, Konzerthaus Berlin , 1998–1999 Grips-Theater , 2008 Staatstheater Cottbus , Theater Morgenstern Berlin.

Discography

1989: "Lomp noch nit farloschn", LP, CD, Aufwind
1991: "Gassn Singer", CD, Aufwind
1993: "Ahava Raba", CD, Ahava Raba
1993: “I don't want to wait any longer”, CD, Norbert Bischoff
1995: “Awek di young Jorn”, CD, Aufwind
1996: “Green Leaves” CD, Karsten Troyke
1997: “Strange Saints”, CD, Gerhard Schöne
1997: “Lied am Rand”, CD, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel
1997: "Kete Kuf", CD, Ahava Raba
1998: "Prime Cuts" CD, TFF Rudolstadt
1998: "Sad in Seville", CD, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel
1998: “Forgotten Songs”, CD, Karsten Troyke
1999: "Schöner Lügen", CD, LP, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel
2000: "That must be a piece of heaven", CD, Scarlett O'& the little big band
2000: "Pearls for a new century", CD, TFF Rudolstadt,
2000: “Balkan Blues & Kaukabilly”, CD, Yerevan
2000: "10 Years TFF" CD, TFF Rudolstadt
2001: "Green Light", CD, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel
2001: “Half and Half”, DVD, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel
2001: "2001- A Folkodyssey", CD, TFF Rudolstadt
2002: “Kabbalah Dream”, CD, Sadawi
2002: "Romantic Escapes", CD, Martin C. Herberg
2002: “In Ejnem”, CD, Aufwind
2003, "Ticky Tock", CD, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel
2004: “Lethargia”, CD, Zotos Kompania
2004: “Beyond Babylon”, CD, Sadawi
2004: "Live", CD, Aufwind
2006: “Winterstimmen”, CD, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel
2006: "Ascension", CD, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel
2006: "True love & high adventure", CD, Martin C. Herberg
2006: “Tango oyf Yiddish”, CD, Karsten Troyke
2007: “Espoirs Perdus”, CD, Musette Brachiale
2007: "Live", CD, Spreefalter
2008: "Modne Welt", CD, Aufwind
2008: “Christmas in Peace”, DVD, Aurora Lacasa
2009: "Around the corner in 80 minutes", CD, Ian Melrose
2010: “Kiev Tramway”, CD, Trio Sho
2011: "Beggars, Fools and Thieves", SACD, Mckinley Black
2012: Live Klezmer concert , CD, Karsten Troyke , only download edition
2012: “Gran Bufet”, CD, Shmaltz
2012 Tango Oyf Yiddish Vol.2 , Oriente Music

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personal data
SURNAME	Hermerschmidt, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4th 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Berlin