Michael Riessler

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Michael Riessler (2018)

Michael Riessler (* 19th June 1957 in Ulm ) is a German jazz - clarinetist and composer.

Live and act

After graduating from high school in 1975, Riessler studied clarinet at the music academies in Cologne and Hanover (with Hans Deinzer ). In 1978 he played in the Ensemble Musique Vivante in Paris . After concerts with Siegfried Palm and Aloys Kontarsky , he undertook a tour through West Africa with the Cologne Saxophone Mafia in 1988 . From 1989 to 1991 he worked as a musician in the Orchester National de Jazz and was a member of the Pit Sound Orchestra . In addition, he began realizing radio plays with Peter Zwetkoff . In 1992 he founded a trio with the hurdy-gurdy player Valentin Clastrier and the tambourine player Carlo Rizzo and with them as well as Michel Godard , Gérard Siracusa and Jean-Louis Matinier the group Le Bûcher des Silences .

In 1986, the theater music he composed L'Ecole des Bouffons for the drama of the Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode was performed in Rennes , and Riessler began teaching modern music at the Darmstadt Summer Courses . Since 1988 he has also been a guest lecturer for saxophone at the Institute for Contemporary Music in Darmstadt .

The album Héloïse , composed in 1992 for the Donaueschinger Musiktage , was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize; in the same year he received the SWF Jazz Prize . In his project Momentum Mobile in 1993 the organ grinder Pierre Charial performed with the jazz musicians Howard Levy , Renaud Garcia-Fons and Robby Ameen , a string quartet and a wind quintet. In 1997, literary settings were created for the Berlin Biennale under the title Honey and Ashes . In 1998 he performed with the dancer Nigel Charnock , and his ballet Comedie was released in Paris . In 1999 Looseshoes was performed at the Munich Biennale with the participation of the author Raymond Federman and the musicians Markus Stockhausen , Simon Stockhausen and Michel Portal . Multimedia projects such as Email and Aponivi followed.

In 2000 the album Orange was released with Pierre Charial, the accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier and the singer Élise Caron , in the same year with the clarinetist Sabine Meyer and the Trio di Clarone Bach in 1 Hour . Ahi Vita followed in 2004 , an album with lamentations of the Renaissance and the early Baroque, recorded with cellist Vincent Courtois and the vocal ensemble Singer Pur . In 2010 his work Trompe l'œil - Trompe l'oreille was premiered at the Herrenhausen Art Festival.

In 2012, Intuition published Michael Riessler's Big Circle - a work that critic Harry Lachner took as an opportunity to draw the following conclusion: “Although there is no shortage of mixed forms in jazz, Michael Riessler's productions stand out in this scene: so original, so His recordings are well thought out so that you would have to find a separate category for them. ”Riessler's contribution to the development of jazz, on the other hand, doubts Michael Rüsenberg in view of the same work. In the same year the album received the German Record Critics' Prize .

In addition, Riessler also composed continuously for radio. In addition to radio play music for Lord of the Rings (1990). Der Zauberberg (2000), the Hörkules awarded Steppenwolf (2002) and Madame Bovary created audio pieces such as Ji-Viru (1995), Chansons (1997), Fever (1998), Zwei Tische (2000) and Berenice Tableau (2003).

Finally, Riessler also worked as an interpreter with composers and musicians of classical modernism such as Mauricio Kagel , Vinko Globokar , Steve Reich , Karlheinz Stockhausen , John Cage , Helmut Lachenmann , Dieter Schnebel and Michael Sell .

Riessler gave jazz and improvisation courses in Orléans , Toronto , Montreal , Tokyo and Chapel Hill (North Carolina) ; he also lectured at the Darmstadt summer courses . In 2009 he was appointed professor for jazz at the University of Music and Theater in Munich .

Michael Riessler at the Jeux Doubles concert on December 15, 2018 in the Forum Merzhausen

Awards

Radio plays music (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The sound world is not enough . In: FAZ , October 12, 2010, p. 41
  2. ^ Harry Lachner, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Scala broadcast ) on WDR 5 , February 9, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wdr5.de
  3. ↑ meeting Big Circle . In: jazzcity.de. Retrieved April 5, 2020 . at jazzcity
  4. ^ Laudation of the annual German Record Critics' Prize
  5. ↑ Villa Massimo | Michael Riessler. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Riessler, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm