Kurt Holzkämper

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Kurt Holzkämper (born April 14, 1971 in Sinsheim ) is a German jazz musician ( electric bass , double bass , composition ).

biography

Holzkämper studied jazz bass, music production and music education at the Hermann Zilcher Conservatory in Würzburg. He then played with musicians such as Frank Kimbrough and John King, Patrick Bebelaar , Johannes Enders , Topo Gioia and free improvisations with Fried Dähn . Concert tours to Russia, Ukraine, USA and Nicaragua form a basis for his musical work. Jazz, Brazilian and Latin American elements come together in his bass playing.

He taught at the Ludwigsburg youth music school and the Würzburg University of Music .

Current projects

  • FlowRa
  • Pianotopia , together with Chris Geisler (grand piano)
  • The last beautiful days , with Mehrdad Zaeri (illustration)
  • Trio Azul , with Anibal Civilotti and Omar Plasencia
  • Tap-n-bass

Discography (selection)

  • 2019 Martin Keller Quintet: The Crazy Mastodon (HGBS)
  • 2018 Pianotopia: Transient - unplugged (with Chris Geisler)
  • 2011 Suzanne von Borsody & Trio Azul: I smiled. Nothing else. And it became light inside me: Suzanne von Borsody reads Frida Kahlo Music: Trio Azul (sagas.edition)
  • 2010 Chris Geisler feat. Johannes Enders Katharsis (Neuklang, with Bernd Settelmeyer)
  • 2008 Ernesto Cardenal , Dietmar Schönherr , Grupo Sal : Canto a la vida (with Roberto Deimel, Fernando Dias Dosta, Aníbal Civilotti, Roland Geiger, Harald Schneider)
  • 2007 Scheerbartiana // audio book
  • 2004 Phon B Quartet Von Draußen (DML-Records, with Harald Schneider, Nicolas Schulze, Bernd Settelmeyer)
  • 2003 Dorothee Sölle , Grupo Sal Singing the song of the earth - In a world of violence
  • 1996 Patrick Bebelaar Swings in Time (RMV, with Bernd Settelmeyer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Grupo Sal
  2. ↑ Scheerbartiana - audio book with selected texts by Paul Scheerbart , read by Andreas Mannkopff and musically Scheerbartized by Kurt Holzkämper + Phon B, audio book edition words & music, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811778-1-7
personal data
SURNAME Holzkämper, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Sinsheim