Michael Jüllich

Michael Jüllich (born January 18, 1952 in Essen ) is a German percussionist and composer . His areas of activity are jazz , new music , sound art and music therapy . With Andrea Centazzo , Frank Perry , Pierre Favre , and Günter Sommer, Jüllich is one of the first generation of jazz and improvisation musicians to perform solo concerts with the percussion .

Act

After successfully studying at the Folkwang Hochschule, Jüllich has been working as a freelance musician since 1973. He has worked with Rashied Ali , Jon Hiseman , Detlef Schönenberg , Andrew Cyrille , Theo Jörgensmann , Kurt Dahlke and Michael Fahres, among others . In the early 1970s he was a member of the Contact Trio jazz group . During this time he developed the Spiel- und Klangstraße for the city of Essen , of which he was artistic director for several years. In 1980 he implemented this concept as part of the Ars Electronica Linz. In addition, he designed music projects in Europe , the USA and Asia in collaboration with the Goethe Institute . In 1990, Jüllich and Michael Fahres and Kurt Dahlke developed a 16-hour concert on the subject of the sun, " Sunwheel ", which was proposed for the Prix ​​Italia European radio award and performed in Leystad and the Massada fortress in Israel. In 2002 the trio opened the Neue Pinakothek in Munich with a sound performance . Furthermore, he recorded the album Zeitsprunge with the Dietmar Hippler Ensemble, to which Joe Sachse also belonged .

Jüllich has also been active in curative education in music therapy since the mid-1990s.

Discography (selection)

• Contact Trio Contact (with T. Jörgensmann, Alois Kott , self-published 1972)
• Contact Trio New Marks (with Evert Brettschneider and Alois Kott, JAPO , 1978)
• M. Jüllich / D. Schönenberg First of April (Moers Music 1979)
• The Liberated Drums (Solo, Moers Music 1980)
• Energy - The Four Directions Solo (Wergo-Spectrum, Schott Verlag 1987)
• Contact 4tett Full House 2019

Awards

• 1976 Folkwang Prize
• 1976 winner of the Gaudeamus competition for interpreters of contemporary music in Rotterdam
• 1976 award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for music
• 1979 Prize of the German Music Council (podium for young soloists)

Web links

• Michael Jüllich at Allmusic (English)
• Michael Jüllich at Discogs (English)