Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock

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Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock (born February 21, 1955 in Wuppertal ) is a German bass player and composer .

biography

Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock graduated from the University of Music and Dance in Cologne in 1981 . He then went on tour as a bass player with musicians such as Friedrich Gulda , Manfred Schoof and Michael Sagmeister . From 1989 to 1995 he played bass in Klaus Doldinger's band Passport and in various formations with Alexander von Schlippenbach .

Schmidt-Hambrock has been writing several jingles for various television programs since 1981 . Up to 1994 there were up to over 800 jingles, which he wrote mainly for television stations such as ARD and SWR3 , setting programs such as ARD Presseclub , Die goldene Eins and Sportschau to music. (The latter music was replaced by the current melody by Dieter Bohlen .)

With the 1991 broadcast Tatort: ​​Deadly Past , Schmidt-Hambrock made his debut as a film composer. Since then he has composed for over 150 cinema and television productions, including Jenseits der Stille , Nirgendwo in Afrika , Der Trip - Die nackte Gitarre 0,5 , Neues von Pettersson and Findus and Lilly Schönauer - Umweg ins Glück , where he worked with directors such as Caroline Link , Jo Baier , Konrad Sabrautzky , Vivian Naefe , Diethard Klante and Bernhard Stephan worked together. Furthermore works for Xaver Schwarzenberger, Torsten Fischer, Peter Schulze-Rohr, Heidi Kranz, Bettina Woernle, Dorothea Neukirchen and Susanne Zanke. He made 25 TV films with Olaf Kreinsen alone. For Alberto Venzago he wrote the music for the documentary film Voodoo produced by Wim Wenders . He wrote various award-winning advertising music for Niko Karo.

In 2008 he made the two short films Too Many Muses and Women, Jazz and Shoes as a writer and director . Both have been shown at many festivals and were awarded both the Audience Award and the Jury Prize at the Park City Film Festival in 2010.

From 1987 to 2010 he was on the board of the Composers Club, and since 2011 he has been deputy chairman of DEFKOM (German Film Composers Union). Until 2015 he was a member of the GEMA works committee. He has been a member of GEMA's supervisory board since 2015.

Since 2014 he has been the bass player for AKADEMIX - the official band of the German Film Academy and in the Roter Salon formation , which plays cinematic jazz.

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SURNAME Schmidt-Hambrock, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal , Germany