Michael T. Otto

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Michael T. Otto

Michael T. Otto (born March 12, 1969 in Ravensburg ) is a German trumpeter and composer .

biography

Otto began playing the trumpet with the local brass band at the age of nine. After a short time as a military musician , he studied trumpet at the Cologne University of Music with Malte Burba . He also learned his jazz and composition craft in Cologne and with the New York jazz pianist Peter Madsen . Otto was the founder and principal cornettist of the " Brass Band Oberschwaben-Allgäu" (1992–2001), has been the director and founder of the Big Band LA at the Langenargen Music School since 1999 , where he also works as a teacher.

In 2003 his solo debut album "Spin Trumpet" was released on the "Thorofon" label, a year later he founded the "mto-jazz-quartett" with Olivier Hutman (Paris), Andy McKee (New York) and Bernd Reiter (Graz) playing modern jazz .

Otto is the founder of the formation "exchange Jazz" which in unusual instrumentation (singing kuhlohorn traditional -Trombone accordion-guitar-bass) German songs encased in a jazz garment. In 2005 he wrote the German-French children's musical “Pigeon Vole or A Flea on a Secret Mission” together with the Parisian children's songwriter Didier Delepeleer, which was awarded the second prize in 2006 by the Robert Bosch Foundation .

Since 2006 Otto has been developing trumpets and flugelhorns with the trumpet maker Friedrich Lüttke . He has been a member and composer of the Bodan Art Orchestra since 2011 .

From 2012 to 2015 Otto taught brass didactics / methodology at the Nuremberg University of Music .

Discography (selection)

  • Stubenjazz Lieder (2017) - GLM
  • Stubenjazz (2009) - Bella Musica
  • mto-jazz-quartett New German Timbres (2006) - NeuKlang
  • Pigeon Vole or A Flea On A Secret Mission (2005) - Tonsee Records
  • Spin Trumpet (2003) - Thorofon (with Peter Madsen and others)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Civic engagement in German-French city and community partnerships 2006
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Michael T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trumpeter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg