Marco Plitzner

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Marco Plitzner (born April 13, 1972 in Kronach ) is a German clarinetist , band leader , arranger and composer . He is the founder and director of the Blue Moon Orchestra .

biography

At the age of 11, Plitzner learned the clarinet and saxophone in the local music association . After training to become an optician and then doing basic military service , he attended the vocational school for music in Kronach for a year to prepare for studying music. He then studied clarinet with Peter Reich and saxophone with Günther Priesner at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg .

In 2004 Plitzner and his wife Ninette Soyez-Plitzner (also a clarinetist and saxophonist) founded the Blue Moon Orchestra, a 16-piece swing big band with which he regularly tours.

Plitzner is the managing director of Blue Moon Music GbR, an association of professional musicians, in which, in addition to the Blue Moon Orchestra, the small ensembles Blue Moon Swingtett, Opus 4 and Laurel & Hardy's Marching Band are integrated. Plitzner was regularly on tour with Hugo Strasser and the Blue Moon Orchestra.

In addition to his concert activities, Plitzner is committed to youth work. Until 2015 he taught at the Egbert-Gymnasium Münsterschwarzach . Marco Plitzner is currently teaching clarinet and saxophone at the Albertinum Coburg grammar school . There he also directs the jazz combo and the symphonic wind orchestra. At the Weißenbrunn elementary school, he has a speaker assignment for the Brasskids project, an early music education program he has developed. He also heads the Weißenbrunn Music Association as a conductor, organizes work with young people and young people and is a lecturer in the Northern Bavarian Music Association.

Works

Plitzner arranges most of the works for his orchestra himself. His composition "Christmastime In Our Little Town" is published by the music publisher Geiger. As a composer he set a. a. Audio books by Benedictine Father Anselm Grün OSB.

Discographic notes

  • Wanderings (Opus4 2004)
  • City Lights (Blue Moon Orchestra 2004)
  • As Long As I´m Swinging (Blue Moon Orchestra 2007)
  • Christmas Time in Our Little Town (Blue Moon Orchestra 2008)
  • Buy yourself a colorful balloon (Blue Moon Orchestra 2009)
  • The Story of the Big Bands (Blue Moon Orchestra 2013)
  • Memories of You (Blue Moon Orchestra 2016)
Background music for audio books
  • Your way out of fear ( Wunibald Müller , Vier-Türme-Verlag)
  • The fine art of getting older (Anselm Grün, Vier-Türme-Verlag)
  • Trust your strength ( Anselm Grün , Vier-Türme-Verlag)
  • So that your life breathes freedom (Anselm Grün, Vier-Türme-Verlag)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Publisher's note ( Memento of April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )