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Malte Schiller (* 1982 ) is a German jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet , flute , composition , arrangement ).

Live and act

Malte Schiller grew up in Wilsum . After attending the Niedergrafschaft music school in Uelsen , he studied at the ArtEZ Conservatory Enschede from 2001 and saxophone with Martin Classen at the Bremen University of the Arts from 2002 to 2007 . In 2002 he won Bonuskäse with the band Bonuskäse at Jugend jazzt , was a member of the Landesjugendjazzorchester Niedersachsen and from 2003 onwards in the Bundesjazzorchester .

Schiller is a member of the Nordwest Bigband, for which he arranges and composes. In 2011 the band performed with Philip Catherine . In 2006 he released his debut album Connected ( Laika Records ). He released two albums with his large-format ensemble Red Balloon . He also worked with the Leipzig big band Spielvereinigung Sued . He worked as a producer for Peter Maffay and Kenneth Dahl Knudsen .

Prizes and awards

Schiller was a finalist in the ArtEZ Composition Contest in 2008 and a prize winner in the Jazz-Comp-Graz competition in 2011 . With his big band Red Balloon , he received the European Burghauser Junior Jazz Prize in 2012 . Also in 2012 he received a working grant for innovative music productions from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture .

Discographic notes

  • Connected (Laika, 2005), with Peter Schwebs, Philipp Pumplün, Oliver Poppe
  • Red Balloon: The Second Time Is Different ( Unit , 2012, with Charlotte Greve , Uli Kempendorff , Viktor Wolf, Florian Menzel , Johannes Böhmer, Andrej Ugoliew, Jan Schreiner , Manuel Schmiedel, Andreas Waelti, Reini Schmölzer )
  • All the Way (Unit, 2012, with Jan Olaf Rodt, Andreas Lang, Reini Schmölzer, Dan Weinstein, Lauren Franklin-Steinmetz, Liron Yariv, Sol Daniel Kim)
  • Red Balloon: Not So Happy (Unit, 2014)
  • Malte Schiller & Spielvereinigung Sued Say or Not (Unit, 2016)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NordWest Bigband
  2. ↑ Information from Nordwest Bigband
  3. ↑ German saxophonist won "Jazz-Comp-Graz"
  4. ↑ Burghauser Junior Jazz Prize 2012
  5. ↑ Nds. Ministry of Science and Culture: Three composers and one jazz musician receive scholarships , accessed on August 18, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Schiller, Malte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1982