Marcus Schinkel (musician)

Marcus Schinkel (2007)

Marcus Schinkel (* 1968 ) is a German jazz pianist , rock keyboardist, composer and arranger.

Musical career

Schinkel studied jazz and classical piano from 1988 to 1993 at the Conservatorium voor de Kunsten Arnhem (Netherlands) with Rob van den Broeck (jazz) and Chris Seger (classical) and also took lessons from Richie Beirach , Lee Konitz , Philip Catherine and Walter Norris . He was a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO) under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer . While still a student, he founded the Marcus Schinkel Trio with the drummer Wim de Vries ( The Drumbassadors ) and the electric and double bass player Bas Rietmeijer .

The first trio CD First of a Million Tones was created in 1996 with guest musicians Eric Vloeimans and Peter Less . In 1999 Schinkel arranged compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven for his classical jazz program "News from Beethoven", with which the trio received an invitation to concerts in North and South Vietnam in 1999 to mark the adoption of the German Bundestag in Bonn . The CD “News from Beethoven” was released in 2004 and “9 Symphonies” in 2009, in which Schinkel arranged the 9 themes of the Beethoven symphonies for the Marcus Schinkel Trio and the Indigo String Quartet . With this Beethoven Meets Jazz project , the trio has performed several times at international festivals. a. the Beethovenfest Bonn. In 2015, the trio presented the program Crossover Beethoven with the new electric and double bass player Fritz Roppel , who replaced the sick Bas Rietmeijer. Appearances at the Jazzfest Bonn and the Jazzralley Düsseldorf with the saxophone legend and 2-time Grammy Award winner Ernie Watts as well as concerts with the gypsy jazz guitarist Joscho Stephan as guest soloist.

In 2017, the new program New Pictures at an Exhibition premiered , a homage to Keith Emerson and the progressive rock era of Emerson, Lake and Palmer based on the composition Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky . The trio is expanded here by the singer Johannes Kuchta and a light & laser show. In addition to grand pianos and synthesizers, Schinkel also uses more unusual instruments such as keytar ( cloak keyboard ), theremin , melodica , laser harp and ribbon controller . That same year, Schinkel gave concerts in Honduras as a soloist and with the Youth Orchestra Victoriano Lopez headed by Daniel Montes , but he played the fifth piano concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven , but improvised the cadenza passages with elements of jazz and Latin.

Marcus Schinkel accompanies the German cabaret artist and singer Nessi Tausendschön and various jazz and pop singers. Worked as a pianist, composer and arranger for the Theater Bonn from 2009 to 2015, since 2016 for the Schauspiel Düsseldorf . He worked with Pee Wee Ellis , Susan Weinert , Pete York , Kim Wilde , Charlie Mariano , members of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn , Inga Lühning , Frederik Köster , Markus Stockhausen , Bodek Janke , Martell Beigang , Ulla Oster and Paul Kuhn together. In addition to Europe, Schinkel performed in the USA, Russia, the Caribbean, Jordan, Turkey and Tunisia.

Discographic notes

Albums under your own name

• Marcus Schinkel Trio Crossover Beethoven , 2015
• Marcus Schinkel Trio & Indigo String Quartet 9 Symphonies , 2009
• Marcus Schinkel Trio News from Beethoven , 2004
• Marcus Schinkel Trio First of a Million Tones , 1996

Albums as accompanist

• Melanie Heizmann If I were a cloud , 2014
• Anikó Kanthak Til You Hear From Me , 2013
• Regina Mester Quartet Where Do We Go , 2009
• Nessi Tausendschön residual heat , 2007
• Faith Gibson You Don't Know Me , 2004
• Nessi Tausendschön Live , 2004
• Wim de Vries Groovability to Swing , 1997
• Esprit Esprit , 1998
• Birgit June Listen to the Wind , 1996

Web links

Commons : Marcus Schinkel  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Marcus Schinkel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence