Manfred Honetschläger

Manfred Honetschläger (* 1959 ) is a German jazz musician ( trombone , bass trombone , arrangement , composition ) who also emerged as an orchestrator and composer of film scores .

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Honetschläger grew up in Butzbach, Hesse , and learned the trombone as a child. While doing his military service he played in the music corps of the Bundeswehr . He then studied orchestral music at the Frankfurt University of Music and, in addition to his studies as a trombonist, played in symphony and opera orchestras (such as the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra ), in jazz formations (such as in 1982 with Torolf Mølgaards Trombones United ) and big bands , etc. a. in the European Jazz Orchestra of Gerry Mulligan . He also studied composition and arrangement with Bill Dobbins around 1985 and Rayburn Wright at the Eastman School of Music , and in the 1990s with Kenny Napper at the Hilversum Conservatory and with Bob Brookmeyer and Jim McNeely at the Cologne University of Music .

In 1984 Honetschläger first joined the hr big band , of which he was a member of the trombone group until the end of 2019; In later years he also led the hr big band on projects for cross-over productions with, for example , Bela B. , Laith Al Deen and Pe Werner, as well as with Aki Takase and Rudi Mahall at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival . In the course of his career he also worked with the Warsaw Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Babelsberg Film Orchestra , with whom he worked as a conductor, composer ( peas at half past five ) and arranger for music and film productions.

Honetschläger composed chamber music , a jazz mass and music for radio plays (as for The Hundred Year Old Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared ). His orchestral work Die Verführung des Pentheus , with a text by John von Düffel based on Euripides ' “ Bakchen ” , was premiered in 2016 by the orchestra and big band of the Deutsche Oper Berlin .

In the field of jazz, Honetschläger Tom Lord was involved in only 26 recording sessions between 1982 and 2016, mostly productions by the hr big band with guest soloists such as Eddie Daniels , Marjorie Barnes / Frits Landesbergen , Bill Ramsey , Billy Cobham / Colin Towns , Dave Douglas , Richie Beirach / Dave Liebman , John Hollenbeck and Julian Argüelles , also with The Danish-German Slide Combination ( Fugue for Tinhorns , 1988), the Kurt Bong Orchestra, the Rainer Heute Big Band and with Buddy DeFranco ( The Three Sopranos , 1998).