Mathias Engl
Mathias Engl (born June 20, 1965 in Munich ) is a German jazz musician ( trumpet ) and physicist.
Live and act
Engl, who grew up in Wasserburg am Inn , began playing the piano at the age of six. At the age of eleven he switched to the trumpet. In 1980 he got to know jazz and soon played in various big , funk and soul bands . He first completed a physics degree at the Technical University of Munich . At the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics , he wrote his diploma thesis under the direction of Karsten Danzmann on the light-specific properties of high-performance mirrors , and then worked as a freelancer in the research department at Siemens in Neuperlach. From 1994 he studied trumpet with Leonard Candelaria on a jazz scholarship at the University of North Texas and graduated in 1997 with a master's degree.
He has been back in Munich since 1998, where he belonged for many years to the big bands of Harald Rüschenbaum and Thomas Bendzko as well as to Gregor Bürgers Earforce , but also performed as a soloist and sideman in the big bands of Dusko Goykovich and Al Porcino . He played dance and light music with Hugo Strasser , the Serafin Showband and the Joe Williams Showband . In addition, he regularly worked as a soloist with the Unterbiberger Hofmusik , but also with Swing Summit , Matt Noack's Secret Groove Service and Roger Jannotta / Thorsten Klentze . He also played with Don Menza , Bobby Shew , Philip Catherine , Claudio Roditi , Jay Ashby , Kim Nazarian and the New York Voices . He can also be heard on albums with the Thorsten Klentze Quintet.
Web links
- Web presence
- Mathias Engl at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engl, Mathias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |