Michael Hornstein

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Michael Hornstein (born September 29, 1962 in Konstanz ) is a German saxophonist , composer and music producer .

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Hornstein began playing the piano at the age of ten, and at 14 he switched to the alto saxophone . Initially as an autodidact under the influence of Charlie Parker , he later studied music at the Graz University of Music . In 1983 Hornstein received a scholarship and went to Berklee College of Music . He initially worked in the field of creative jazz with Fred Braceful , Sunny Murray , Joe Madrid , Albert Mangelsdorff , Udo Lindenberg , Hector Martignon , Al Porcino , Blank & Jones, Bob Dorough , Billy Hart , Peter Bockius and Gary Peacock, among others .

Since the early 1990s, he has been exploring the spectrum between jazz, concert contemporary music and electronic club culture in a variety of live and studio projects. Hornstein is a saxophonist, composer and music producer with the tracks Carma and Boom Boom on two issues of Café del Mar represented.

Since 1998 he has presented his music for the Goethe-Institut in Mexico, Cuba, Greece, Spain, Serbia, Bosnia and Georgia. As a composer and producer - including electronic music - he is responsible for a number of commissioned compositions for ARTE and ARD, as well as experimental short films and art videos. Further concert tours have taken him to the USA, Switzerland, France, Italy, Greece, Austria, Columbia, Thailand and China, among others. In recent years he has also appeared in a duo with keyboardist Oliver Hahn and in a trio or quartet with Walter Lang , Walter Bittner and Manolo Diaz.

In addition to his concert activities, Hornstein has been teaching since the 1980s and also gives workshops on tours for Goethe Institutes. In 2003 he was appointed visiting professor at the Javeriana University in Bogotá . Since 2004 he has also been working as a producer for international folklore with a focus on Latin America and has produced commissioned music in numerous Latin American countries, for example in Cuba in 2008 with members of the Buena Vista Social Club .

Discographic notes

  • Slow Blue , Enja , with Chris Lachotta and Fred Braceful, 1993
  • Dry Red , Edition Collage, with Roberto Di Gioia , 1994
  • Innocent Green , Enja, with Gary Peacock, Billy Hart, Roberto Di Gioia, 1996
  • Danza Mestiza (Milenium), Colombia, 2003
  • Draft , Leo Records , 2005
  • Let It Go , Spice Records, 2006
  • Summertime Opium , Spice Records, 2009
  • But for Now , Enja, with Bob Dorough and Tony Marino, 2015
  • Playgrounds, with Roberto Di Gioia, 2017
  • Ellington Now , with Oliver Hahn, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Godehard Lutz Michael Hornstein was 50 Jazz Podium 11/2012: 19-21
  2. ↑ Conveying visions - Michael Hornstein as jazz professor in Bogotá , Jazzzeitung 2004/04, page 20
personal data
SURNAME Hornstein, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German saxophonist, composer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy