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
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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)
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SURNAME | Frey, Matthias |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist and composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 4th 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |