Klaus Gesing

Klaus Gesing (born December 13, 1968 in Düsseldorf ) is a German jazz musician ( soprano saxophone , bass clarinet ). Today he lives in Vienna and Düsseldorf.

Live and act

Gesing, who was interested in music at an early age, played the tenor saxophone from the age of seventeen . As a member of the State Youth Jazz Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia, he decided to become a musician. From 1990 to 1995 he studied at the Hague Conservatory with John Ruocco and Leo van Oostrom. There he led a quartet with Alessandro Di Liberto, with whom he presented a first album (including with Gulli Guðmundsson ) and performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival . Then he founded his own quartet Heartluggage with Gwilym Simcock , Yuri Goloubev and Asaf Sirkis. Since 1996 he has also formed a duo with Glauco Venier , which was expanded to a trio with Norma Winstone ; their joint album Distances (2007) was nominated for a Grammy in 2009. He also played with Fritz Pauer , John Taylor , Enrico Rava , Dave Liebman , Riccardo Zegna , Gabriele Mirabassi , Adelhard Roidinger , Wolfgang Puschnig , Johannes Berauer and the Jazz Big Band Graz ( Urban Folktales , 2011). Klaus Gesing is a relative of the German writer Rei Gesing alias Reinhard Gesing.

Prizes and awards

Gesing first won the Jugend jazzt competition (NRW 1988); he received the Soloist Prize of the Middelzee Jazz Festival in 1994 and in 1995 the Van Merlen Prize of the City of The Hague. At the international jazz festival Jazz à Vienne he was honored as best soloist in 1996.

Discographic notes

• First Booke of Songes (2000)
• Glauco Venier Trio, Kenny Wheeler, Klaus Gesing & Pezzè String 4tet Gorizia (2000)
• Klaus Gesing & Glauco Venier Play Bach (2000)
• Klaus Gesing, Uli Rennert , Peter Herbert Composition (2000)
• Achim Tang In the Long Run (2002, with Heinrich von Kalnein , Robert Bachner and Christian Salfellner )
• Norma Winstone, Klaus Gesing, Glauco Venier Chamber Music
• Klaus Gesings Heartluggage (2006)
• Anouar Brahem The Astounding Eyes of Rita (2008)
• Norma Winstone, Klaus Gesing, Glauco Venier Stories Yet to Tell (2010)
• Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer , Samuel Rohrer Amiira (Arjunamusic 2016)

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

• Klaus Gesing's website
• Portrait , Wiener Zeitung January 28, 2010
• “A tweeter with a sense of the fundamentals” Portrait of the saxophonist Klaus Gesing , Deutschlandfunk - JazzFacts from January 30, 2009