Michael Klostermann

Michael Klostermann (born December 27, 1962 in Bad Sobernheim ) is a German orchestra conductor and composer in the field of brass music .

Life

Klostermann learned to play the piano at the age of nine. Little by little he got to know different wind instruments and discovered his personal favorite in the tenor horn . He began a career in the police force. In 1983 he joined the Hessian Police Orchestra as the then police chief inspector as a tenor , which he then did full-time. In 1984 he founded his own wind orchestra "Michael Klostermann und seine Musikanten". The style of this orchestra is Bohemian brass music, which was established above all by Ernst Mosch with his Egerländer. About a third of the tracks are sung about, the others are purely instrumental.

In 1986 the Klostermann Orchestra won the 6th International Meeting of Brass Bands in Prague . The conductor had written almost all of the titles in collaboration with Franz Watz and Hans Bruss.

For many years only Franz Watz wrote the arrangements for the orchestra, including many concert titles. From 1989 Michael Klostermann wrote titles himself, including the successful "Julia-Polka", "Dunkelgrüne Sterne", "Musi 'mit Herz" or "Dream this world simply beautiful". From 2001 he strived to be largely independent in his compositions and arrangements and increasingly wrote new melodies and texts, e. T. together with Hans Bruss.

Discography (selection)

first publications in the late 1980s

• Young swing from Bohemia (1987)
• This is how it sounds in Bohemia (1988)
• Trumpets of brass music (1990)

Sound carrier with a special topic / cast

• 1991 a Christmas LP / CD
• 1992 the best-known titles from Egerland, in arrangements by Franz Watz
• 1997 a synthesis of Moravian, Bohemian and swing music
• 1999 Special CD for Franz Watz's 50th birthday
• 2000 "Dankeschön Ernst Mosch" with his most successful titles in new arrangements

recent publications

• Royal Sounds of March Music (2010)
• Songs You Never Forget (2011)

Web links

• Works by and about Michael Klostermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on www.michael-klostermann.de
• Image ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )