Klaus Marquardt (violinist)

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Klaus Marquardt with Wendrsonn at the blacksheep Festival 2016

Klaus Marquardt is a German violinist who plays classical and jazz as well as folk , blues and rock music . He works in various groups and ensembles and is in demand as an accompanist for well-known artists.

Life

The Swabian Klaus Marquardt passed his Abitur at Georg Büchner Gymnasium in Winnenden . He then studied violin and chamber music with Max Speermann at the University of Music in Würzburg and received jazz lessons from Leszek Zadlo . The training covered the areas of classical, rock, pop , jazz, improvisation , blues, folk and avant-garde . At the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart he played under the direction of Helmuth Rilling , with the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Fey . He is a permanent member of the Stuttgart Orchestra of Cultures . In the field of new music he worked with Manfred Schreier. Since 1996 he has also been a musician for the musicals at Stage-Entertainment in Stuttgart.

He has been practicing violin improvisation since his youth and has been on stage with many bands of various styles, with his instruments being the violin, the electric violin and the mandolin . He is a member of the German Pops Orchestra, for which he also arranged and composed. His string quintet StrinXup plays his arrangements and compositions. He is best known as the producer , arranger and musician of the Swabian folk rock band Wendrsonn , with whom he recorded two CDs. Another of his bands is the German-Turkish group Limanja , based in Ludwigsburg , whose music fuses pop and ethnic elements. In 2008 the CD Aliena of his own project Violin Experience was released. Jon Lord , Miller Anderson , Die Fantastischen Vier , Pur , Silje Nergaard , Julia Neigel , Dave Demuth, Claude Schmidt , Ray Wilson , Xavier Naidoo , Sasha and others have already used his services . In 2016 he also rearranged the rock classics used in the school tragedy Punk Rock for a string quartet for the Esslinger Landesbühne . Klaus Marquart has been teaching violin, viola and ensemble classes at the Engelberg Free Music School in Winterbach-Engelberg since September 2018 .

Awards

In addition to several awards for bands in which he is a member, he received as a person:

  • German Rock & Pop Prize in the category: "Best Instrumentalist Folk Rock"
  • German Rock & Pop Award in the category "Producer of the best album Folkrock"

Discography

  • 1994: Bills to Pay (with Rock'n'Roll Junkies)
  • 1995: Rebels of Art (with Konrad Kujau and Rock'n'Roll Junkies)
  • 1995: Double Impact (with Colin John)
  • 1998: Strings Up (with Strings Up -> from 2002 StrinXup)
  • 1998: General Black is the Nightmare of the Moon (with Mah-Jong SaxString)
  • 2000: Tiger's Labyrinth (with Dannemann)
  • 2003: Die Prophezeiung Klassik Edition (with I Nomine as concertmaster of the GermanPops Orchestra)
  • 2003: DIEFANTASTISCHENVIER Live in Stuttgart Unplugged (as Head of String Section at Fanta 4)
  • 2003: Songs of Quality and Distinction (with Weavill & Harriman)
  • 2008: Aliena (with Violin Experience)
  • 2011: Celtic Symphony Uisce (as arranger for Anne Wylie Band - Bernd Ruf - Jenaer Philharmonie)
  • 2011: S'Läba isch koin Schlotzer (with Wendrsonn)
  • 2012: Love in Different Ways (with Paul Harriman)
  • 2013: Reigschmeckter (with Wendrsonn)
  • 2013: Modus Vivendi (with Gismo Graf Trio)
  • 2015: Geile Zeit (with Wendrsonn)
  • 2015: Veda (with Bodo Schopf)
  • 2016: Hautschnah (with Matthias Hautsch)
  • 2017: Ondrwägs (with Wendrsonn)
  • 2018: Celebration of Woodstock - Herzberg Festival Live 2018 (with Miller Anderson Band & Friends)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus Marquardt / violin, viola, jazz, rock, pop. In: musikschule-engelberg, de. Ekkehard Hessenbruch , accessed on January 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Klaus Marquardt. Musician. In: musiker.de. Nabil Zitouni, accessed January 14, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century