Michael Schiefel

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Michael Schiefel 2017 at Jazz im Palmengarten in Frankfurt

Michael Schiefel (born April 15, 1970 in Münster ) is a German jazz singer. Since 2001 Schiefel has been professor for jazz singing at the Liszt School of Music Weimar .

Live and act

During his studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin , the singer began to experiment with the expressive possibilities of loop devices and other electronics. Schiefel's first solo record Invisible Loop (1997) was recognized by audiences and critics. He appears with various solo and band projects at home and abroad. In the jazzIndeed quintet , together with Jan von Klewitz , Bene Aperdannier (keyboard), Paul Kleber (bass) and Rainer Winch (drums), he also recorded songs from the Neue Deutsche Welle ( Blaue Augen ); In 2011 this formation presented another, critically acclaimed album ( Ostkreuz ). In 2006 "Michael Schiefel's jazzIndeed" was one of the twelve selected combos of the German Jazz Meeting at the Jazzahead trade fair in Bremen and performed with the United Women's Orchestra at the Moers Festival . In the same year Carla Bley got him (instead of Phil Minton ) for her Essen performance of Escalator over the Hill . Schiefel also works with the Balkan jazz quintet Batoru , with the vibraphonist David Friedman and with Thärichens Tentett (for the Thärichen album An Berliner Kinder (2012) he received an Echo Jazz in 2013 ). In 2012/2013 he was improviser in residence in Moers .

Discographic notes

  • Invisible Loop , Traumton Records 1997
  • I Don't Belong , Traumton Records 2000
  • Gay , Traumton Records 2003 (with Andreas Schmidt and Christian Kögel)
  • Don't Touch My Animals , ACT Music & Vision 2006
  • My Home Is My Tent , Traumton Records 2010
  • Platypus Trio , 2014 (with Jörg Brinkmann and Miklós Lukács )

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Commons : Michael Schiefel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Schiefel, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz singer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster