Michael Heupel

Michael Heupel (first from left) with Norbert Stein's Pata on the Cadillac , Luther Church (Cologne) September 2011

Michael Heupel (* 1955 in Bonn ) is a German jazz flutist .

Live and act

Heupel studied flute at the Cologne University of Music . From 1980 to 1985 he was a member of the multimedia group Boury . Since 1984 he has also appeared as a soloist with his own compositions. He toured Asia, Africa and Latin America with Norbert Stein's Pata Masters . He has been part of many of Norbert Stein's Pata projects for many years. In a duo with Xu Fengxia he played the bass flute and the sub-double bass flute. In 1990 he founded his own quartet. He also worked with musicians such as Markus Stockhausen , Christoph Haberer , Christopher Dell , Christian Ramond , Jeff Cascaro , Stefan Bauer , in the James Choice Orchestra and the Flautomania group (with Christian Torkewitz , Christian von Kaphengst and Andreas Molino ). With the guitarist Uwe Kropinski he has recorded a variety of duo CDs. Heupel teaches jazz flute at the Cologne University of Music .

The cold of space , 1991 (compositions by Horst Grabosch , with Achim Krämer and Thomas Witzmann, perc)
Caravan of Dreams , 1992 (with Richard Sinclair 's band of the same name )
African Notebook , 1995 (with Uwe Kropinski)
Jubilee (10 years Cologne Philharmonic) , 1996 (with the Stockhausen brothers and the WDR Big Band)
News of Roy Ubu , 1997 (with Norbert Stein and musicians from the Association à la Recherche d'un Folklore Imaginaire )
Sentimental Moods , 2005 (with Kropinski)
Marula in All with Uwe Kropinski, Majid Bekkas , Aly Keïta (Morgenland Records, 2008)
Pata on the Cadillac (with the band of the same name by Norbert Stein)
MTV Unplugged: Under Steam - Without Electricity (with Unheilig , 2015)