Markus Stockhausen

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At the INNtöne Jazzfestival (2017)

Markus Stockhausen (born May 2, 1957 in Cologne ) is a German trumpeter and composer. He is a son of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and his first wife Doris (née Andreae) and the half-brother of the musician Simon Stockhausen .

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Markus Stockhausen (2007)

Stockhausen attended the Musikgymnasium in Cologne and studied classical trumpet with Robert Platt and jazz trumpet with Manfred Schoof at the Cologne University of Music from 1974 to 1982 . Other teachers were Pierre Thibaud , Thomas Stevens , Carmine Caruso and Konradin Groth .

From 1975 to 2001 he played in the ensembles of his father Karlheinz Stockhausen, who wrote many works for him, a. a. the solo parts in SIRIUS , THURSDAY from LIGHT with the main work Michael's journey around the earth , quasi a trumpet concert , SATURDAY from LIGHT with Invasion and Pietà . He also worked with several jazz groups , with Key (1974–1979), the Rainer Brüninghaus Group (1980–1984) and his improvisation ensemble Kairos (1985–1991).

In 1989 he founded the Aparis trio with his brother Simon Stockhausen and drummer Jo Thönes . At the Berlin Jazz Days 1995 he performed with his Possible Worlds Orchestra , the Nguyên Lê (electric guitar), Gergely Ittzés (flute), Rohan de Saram (cello), Fabrizio Ottaviucci (piano), Simon Stockhausen (synthesizer), François Moutin ( Bass), Ramesh Shotham (percussion) and Walter Quintus (sound engineering). He further developed intuitive music in the Sopra le Nuvole project with Fabrizio Ottaviucci (piano), Tara Bouman (clarinet), Stefano Scodanibbio (bass), Mark Nauseef (percussion). His jazz formations were u. a. the trio MAP with Arild Andersen (bass) and Patrice Héral (percussion), partly expanded to Kartā with the guitarist Terje Rypdal , the trio Lichtblick with the pianists Angelo Comisso and Christian Thomé (drums), the duo Landscapes with Ferenc Snétberger (guitar) , or Sol Mestizo together with Enrique Díaz (bass). In 2005 he released his last album together with brother Simon ( nonDuality ). In 2008 Stockhausen founded the world music group Eternal Voyage with Tara Bouman (clarinet), Dinesh Mishra (bansuri flute), Rabih Lahoud (vocals), Florian Weber (piano) and Dimitrios Dorian Kokiousis (drums) , which has meanwhile been replaced with Alireza Mortazavi (santur) , Hindol Deb (sitar), Bodek Janke (percussion).

He currently also plays in the Duo Moving Sounds with Tara Bouman (clarinet / bass clarinet), in the Duo Inside Out with Florian Weber and in Quadrivium with Angelo Comisso (piano), Jörg Brinkmann (cello) and Christian Thomé (drums). In 2018 the new seven-person ensemble Wild Life was created .

Between 2000 and 2010 he organized a monthly concert series with intuitive music in St. Maternus in Cologne. The light artist Rolf Zavelberg developed light installations appropriate to the music. In addition, he gave summer courses for trumpet and taught from 1996 to 2001 at the Cologne University of Music.

Logo illumination during the evening glow composition at the “Evening of Encounter”, Kirchentag 2007

In 2007 he wrote the work Abendglow for the 31st German Evangelical Church Congress in Cologne . Evening glow is a piece for six wind choirs and an improvising solo trumpet. The concert marked the end of the opening evening . More than 150,000 people saw the performance on the banks of the Rhine; it was broadcast live on Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

The film music for Berlin-Jerusalem and Golem, the Petrified Garden was created in collaboration with the director Amos Gitai . Together with his brother Simon, he composed the Cologne Philharmonic for its fifth anniversary in 1991, the Cologne Music Fantasy , which was performed with a light laser show and fireworks . For the tenth anniversary of the Cologne Philharmonic, the piece Jubilee was performed in front of more than 100,000 spectators in 1996 . He also composed theater music for Metamorfosi di una Melodia , Views of a Clown (1996) and a musical recitation of the Seven Psalms (EMIclassics) together with his brother . Together with Hanna Schygulla , Simon Stockhausen and Manos Tsangaris he developed the Kronos Kairos project for the Mainz State Theater .

In collaboration with the sculptor Norbert Müller-Everling emerged Purple (1986-1989), a piece for dance, music and geometric lighting effects and living creation and in collaboration with the sculptor Helmut Lutz in Neuf-Brisach Radbühne , the moment and sound star . In 1995 the piece Donautropfen was performed on a sound ship on the Danube , in 1996 and 1997 the work Im moment . He also wrote commissioned compositions for the London Sinfonietta , the Orchestra d'Archi Italiana, the Winterthur Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Bern and the Swiss Jazz Orchestra and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra . His compositions for jazz trio and orchestra ( Sunrise , Choral and Sehnsucht ) have been performed in various European countries. Since 2005 he has also given concerts with the 12 cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker , for whom he wrote the work Miniature of a Soul Journey , see YouTube video.

The hallmark of his trumpet playing is a bright, clear tone, borrowed from classical music. He also improvises on the piccolo trumpet and sometimes plays on a self-constructed quarter tone - flugelhorn .

Stockhausen holds seminars every year, be it in Germany, Greece, Italy or the USA, topics are creative trumpet playing , intuitive music and more , singing and silence - when the soul sings. He is often a guest at the Benediktushof. “Transformation through sound” is his recurring theme, because he is not only interested in musical content, but also in training awareness, empathy and the development of spirituality. In November 2019 he started the Intuitive Music Forum in Wuppertal .

Over 90 CD releases document Markus Stockhausen's work on various labels. In 2016 the Duo CD Alba by Florian Weber and Markus Stockhausen was released by ECM . In 2017, Far into the Stars , Quadrivium's new CD was released by Okeh / Sony, in 2018 Eternal Voyage live there , in 2019 Hamdelaneh with the Persian santur player Alireza Mortazavi.

Markus Stockhausen (2009)

Prizes and awards

Stockhausen received the German Music Competition Prize in 1981 and the German Record Critics' Prize in 1983 for the jazz record Continuum (which was created in a trio with keyboardist Rainer Brüninghaus and drummer Fredy Studer ) . In 1996 he received the European Music Prize in Vienna, and in 2005 he was awarded the WDR Jazz Prize for the best improviser. In 2017 he received the JTI Jazz Award and the Silver Tuning Fork from the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia in Trier , and in 2018 the ECHO Jazz for his CD Far into the Stars .

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SURNAME Stockhausen, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trumpeter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne