Matthias Stich (musician)

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Matthias Stich (* 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German musician ( alto and soprano saxophone , clarinets , piano ), composer and music teacher who has made a name for himself in jazz as well as in classical music.

Live and act

Stich learned the clarinet since 1970; The alto saxophone was added in 1976 and the piano a year later. Between 1980 and 1984 he completed classical music studies at the Freiburg University of Music with a major in clarinet with Dieter Klöcker . From 1986 to 1987 he was instructed in jazz at the Swiss Jazz School (among others with Andy Scherrer )

Since 1980 Stich played in various groups; From 1984 he was first alto in various big bands . With his own quintet sevensenses he only performed his own compositions (1989–2000). With the quintet Whisper Hot he presented three albums with programs on Ernst Jandl and Johann Sebastian Bach . Since 2007 he has been playing in a duo with Michael Kiedaisch under the name mallets and reeds chamber music jazz for vibraphone and saxophone. He directed the vocal jazz quintet Stitches Brew (two albums), which featured the singer Julia Pellegrini and performed exclusively her own compositions. He has also performed with the Phil Moerke Group ( Multi Colors ), the Bobby Burgess Big Band Explosion , in Alexander's Swingtime Band ( "Live in Concert ) and in Karoline Höfler's Charlie Haigl Festival Band (1994 album). Since 2002 he has been a member of the quartet Noite Carioca can be heard with music from Brazil. He is a permanent member of the Silent Movie Music Company under the direction of Günter A. Buchwald . In recent years he has accompanied Thilo Martinho ( I am , Latin Breeze ) and Ismael Reinhardt ( Gypsy Swing ). He also supported the Ensemble Modern in several projects , for example in the context of the Ruhrtriennale , and can also be heard on several of the ensemble's recordings.

Since 1994, Stich has also participated in numerous music theater productions in Freiburg. He wrote compositions for a wide variety of instrumentations, including a. also for brass music and accordion orchestra. Stich was a teacher at the Jazz & Rock Schools in Freiburg from 1990 to 2014 . Between 2005 and 2014 he was also a lecturer at the Musikhochschule Freiburg for saxophone (jazz, classical and new music). Since 2012 he has also been working at the youth music school in Südlicher Breisgau, where he is among other things co-leader of the youth big band.

Prizes and awards

In 1993, Stich received the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize .

Discographic notes

  • Naked (2014)
  • Stitches Brew feat. Julia Pellegrini Love ... and Other Songs (2012)
  • Michael Kiedaisch & Matthias Stich Nightsongs (2008)
  • Matthias Stich & Sevensenses ... multilayered ... (2001)
  • Matthias Stich & Whisper Hot BACH lives !! (1997)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jazz with rough edges - and with singing Badische Zeitung , September 8, 2008
  2. ↑ Meetings
personal data
SURNAME Stich, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician (alto and soprano saxophone, clarinets, piano), composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau