Max Frankl

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Max Frankl (2014)

Max Frankl (born July 16, 1982 in Starnberg ) is a German jazz guitarist and composer .

Biographical

Shortly before graduating from high school, Max Frankl won the national youth jazz competition . In connection with this he was able to record his first CD in the studios of Deutschlandfunk . In the same year he began his studies (jazz guitar) at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam . At the same time he took lessons from the guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel in Vienna. In 2005 he was appointed to the concert line-up of the Federal Jazz Orchestra directed by Peter Herbolzheimer , with whom he toured the Ukraine in 2006 .

In 2007 Frankl moved to the Lucerne School of Music , where he was taught by Kurt Rosenwinkel and Frank Möbus . He also took private lessons from Jesse van Ruller and Ingrid Jensen . In 2009 he graduated with summa cum laude . In the same year Frankl performed at the JazzBaltica festival and was the first German guitarist to be elected to the European Jazz Orchestra .

At the invitation of the Goethe Institute , she participated in the Petrovac Jazz Festival in Montenegro and a tour through five African countries in late summer 2012 . Frankl was awarded the ECHO Jazz in the category Best Guitarist National in 2012. In October 2012 his fifth album “home”, which he had recorded with his own sextet, was released on Wolfgang Muthspiel's Materia Records label.

Frankl has been to numerous concerts in Europe, Africa and Asia with artists such as Emil Mangelsdorff , Lee Konitz , Peter Herbolzheimer , Benny Golson , Johannes Enders , Nils Wogram , Joo Kraus , Thomas Stabenow , Franco Ambrosetti , Adrian Mears , European Jazz Orchestra, Zurich Jazz Orchestra , Swiss Jazz Orchestra , Henning Sieverts , Bundesjazzorchester , Rainer Tempel , Florian Ross , Niels Klein .

2013 Max Frankl was in the best-of band The Big Jazz thing of the eponymous German jazz magazine Jazz thing selected, the thing of musicians of jazz and the label Double Moon issued album series Next composed generation. The CD, recorded in the same year, was presented on a tour through Germany in autumn 2013. Max Frankl spent August to December 2013 in New York City and took lessons a. a. with Aaron Parks , Ben Monder , Lage Lund , Gretchen Parlato , Ingrid Jensen and Peter Bernstein .

Since November 2013 Max Frankl has been an endorser of the renowned guitar manufacturer Ibanez for Mesa / Boogie amplifiers and D`Addario strings. In 2014 Frankl was awarded the European Music Author's Grant .

In addition to his work as a musician and composer , the ECHO laureate is also an author . In 2016 his book "Introduction: Modern Jazz Guitar" was published by AMA Verlag . The concepts from this book were presented on his “Modern Jazz Guitar Workshop” tour together with D'Addario NYXL in Nuremberg , Kassel , Frankfurt and Berlin .

In 2015 Frankl produced his fifth album "Fernweh". In the same year his tour "Fernweh" started in Germany . After this tour he gave numerous concerts in Germany, Switzerland , Austria and the Netherlands . Among other things, at the Aequinox Festival 2019 he played the program "The Dowland Realbook ". Pieces by John Dowland were played with an independent interpretation between classical and jazz . Frankl released the album “Live in Munich” in 2017 with trombonist Nils Wogram . At the end of 2017 the guitarist made a cargo tour through Germany with his band .

In 2018 he completed the CAS Digital Marketing at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences . The following year he held workshops for musicians in this field .

Discographic notes

Books

Awards

  • 2002: Solistenpreis Landeswettbewerb Jugend jazzt
  • 2002: Winner of the national youth jazz competition
  • 2013: ECHO Jazz in the category Best Guitarist National
  • 2014: European music author scholarship from GEMA
  • 2017: New York studio grant from the city of Zurich

Web links

Commons : Max Frankl  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jazz calendar
  2. ↑ Francis Drake enters East Africa Note from the Goethe-Institut ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ 2012: ECHO , Jazz thing, April 19, 2012
  4. ↑ Echo Jazz 2012 for two people from Weilheim , article Merkur Online from April 17, 2012
  5. ↑ Recording from the Munich jazz club Unterfahrt from February 8, 2013 , Deutschlandradio Kultur from May 7, 2013
  6. ^ Hans Hielscher: New Jazz CDs - KulturSPIEGEL 11/2012 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 2012 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Jazz guitarist and ECHO winner Max Frankl plays Ibanez ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Editor: Guitar Sumit 2019: Masterclass with Max Frankl. April 29, 2019, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  9. ^ D'Addario Modern Jazz Guitar Workshop. 2016, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Recent Dates. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Aequinox post-concert combines early music with jazz. Märkische Allgemeine, accessed on January 24, 2020 .
  12. ^ The Dowland Realbook. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  13. ↑ 'Live in Munich' available from January 20, 2017. December 9, 2016, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  14. ^ Cargo on the road. August 24, 2017, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  15. ↑ From members for members: Digital Marketing for Musicians with Max Frankl. GEMA, accessed on January 27, 2020 .
  16. ↑ a b Max Frankl ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Unit Records Switzerland. (No longer available online.) In: www.unitrecords.com. Archived from the original on September 13, 2016 ; accessed on September 5, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Introduction: Modern Jazz Guitar by Max Frankl | in de Stretta bladmuziek shop Copenhagen. Retrieved February 24, 2020 (Dutch).
  19. ^ Club Voltaire: Dates. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Frankl, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Starnberg