Matthias Frey (musician)

Matthias Frey (born May 4, 1956 in Wiesbaden ) is a German pianist and keyboard player of fusion music and composer of film music .

Live and act

Frey, who taught himself to play the piano as a child before switching to the Hammond organ , played with his own bands from the age of fourteen, with whom he performed in the Rhine-Main area . He later studied music education . In 1976 he presented his first album "PSI Rock Jazz" before founding an acoustic trio with the cellist Wolfgang Tiepold, who came from the classical music, and the percussionist Michael Thierfelder. The group made their breakthrough at the San Sebastian Festival and Frey won first prize as a soloist. According to Joachim-Ernst Berendt, it was the “most important new group that has become known on the German scene in recent years”. In 1980 the trio was expanded to a quartet with another percussionist, Stefan Lang, and performed at numerous festivals such as Jazz East-West , the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt and the Berlin Jazz Days (recording “Colibry”).

In 1981 Frey began working alongside Trilok Gurtu as a duo . In a trio with Gurtu and Tiepold, he went on tour through Africa and the Middle East on behalf of the Goethe Institute . He also performed with Bernd Konrad , Lauren Newton , the “German All Stars”, Jack Bruce and Curt Cress and in a trio with guitarists Toto Blanke and Rudolf Dašek . Then Christoph Haberer switched to the trio with him and Tiepold; he also appeared as a soloist, formed a new quintet and realized a jazz and lyric project with Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka . In 2001 he formed the trio TRI with Büdi Siebert and Ramesh Shotham . In the last few years the musician who lives at the “Apfelhof” in Bärbach has concentrated on world music projects.

Frey composed numerous film scores as well as a major piano concerto in 1988, which he premiered at the Ruhr Festival . For the music for the feature film " Waiting is Death " by Hartmut Schoen , he was nominated in 2000 for the German Television Award in the category "Best Music"; his music for the feature film " The Wall - Berlin '61 " was nominated for an Emmy in 2007.

Discography

1977 horizons 1979 Ziyada 1980 Sandhya 1981 Colibry 1983 onyx 1984 inversion 1985 ear jazzers 1986 Secret Ingredients 1988 Y 1991 Frequency of Vision

1994 Liquid Crystal 1998 Trails and Traces 1999 Tri 2002 The Time Within 2004 Feng Shui 2004 Voyage Oriental 2005 Nightfire 2008 Bazaar Oriental 2009 Both Side Of Life

Filmography

1982: Assunta 1984: Ferdinand the octopus / Sendung mit der Maus 1987: Alarm for HP 1 1987: The Potse 1988: moon people 1989: the last guest 1989: Invisible Walls 1996: Crime Scene - Sleepless Nights 1997: Not with me! Welser's Falls (Maria von Welser) 1997: meeting point 1997: Sport on Monday 1997: love fire 1998: Country matter 1999: Treasures of the World - Abu Mena 1999: Sphinx - Richard the Lionheart 1999: waiting is death 2000: About kissing and flying 2001: Kupferberg

2002: History of the World's Fair 2002: Dangerous proximity and you don't know anything 2003: The Queens of the Nile 2003: Carrot 2004: The apple tree house 2004: The honeymoon 2005: Alaska - dreamland in the north 2005: Tsunami - A wave shakes the world 2005: The border guard and the girl 2006: The Wall - Berlin 61 2008: On blown tracks - through the Alaskan wilderness 2008: Antarctica - wintering in the eternal ice 2008: Terra X - Wild Planet - Alarm on Vesuvius 2008: Terra X - Wild Planet: Tokyo - The Great Quake 2008: Oliver Kahn and the love of football 2008: Wilder Planet - extreme weather over Europe 2011: In the best years

literature

• Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
• Wolfgang Sandner : The loner on the farm: Matthias Frey . In: Wolfgang Sandner: Jazz in Frankfurt. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, pp. 120-122.

Web links

• Web presence with extensive disco and filmography
• Matthias Frey in the Internet Movie Database (English)