Mike Herting

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Mike Herting (* 1954 in Cologne ) is a German jazz pianist, band leader and arranger.

Life

Herting grew up in Wesseling and attended the Max-Ernst-Gymnasium in Brühl . He then studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . He lives in Bornheim - Brenig .

Career

Herting learned to play the piano as a child from his grandmother, who had worked as a silent film pianist. As a student, he founded the jazz rock group Headband , later he was part of the Cologne trio Hardness 10 . From 1982 he worked with the alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano . At the same time he began working as a producer. The title New York - Rio - Tokyo by the group Trio Rio , which he produced, became a global hit, and he also released the album Shilly Shally by Fritz Brause and CDs with Senta Berger and Ulrich Tukur . He composed the musical Yellow Line (1997) as well as radio plays, drama and film music, including the music for The terrible girl by Michael Verhoeven .

Since 1998 Herting has worked as a conductor, arranger and composer for the WDR Big Band Cologne . In a crossover project in Cologne in 1999, Dhafer Youssef and Charlie Mariano were guest soloists in the band. In 2000, Herting arranged and directed the television show Kölsch on Broadway with Ralph Morgenstern , Hans Süper and Jürgen Becker and subsequently accompanied the midnight peaks musically with the big band . With the project Sketches of Bangalore , in which the WDR Big Band Cologne, the Karnataka College of Percussion and Charlie Mariano participated, he combined western jazz music with Indian music tradition.

In 2002 Herting also directed productions for the NDR Big Band . 2002–2003 he was musical director of the television show Deutschland sucht den Superstar (where he prepared Daniel Küblböck for his performance). Further compositions and arrangements for the WDR and the hr big band followed . With Wolfgang Niedecken and the WDR Big Band he recorded the album Niedecken Köln . Herting runs the label gmo the label together with Walter Pütz and Ralf Plaschke .

Radio play music

Awards

In 2006 he received the “Achievement Oscar” from the Wesseling Community Foundation, which was awarded for the first time and endowed with 1000 euros in the culture category.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Note in the article on the Federal Jazz Orchestra's trip to Africa, in Welt from May 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ Alexa Jansen: Stars and young talents (about Herting and Wesseling) Kölner Stadtanzeiger from October 7, 2006
  3. ↑ Price list from the Wesseling Community Foundation

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personal data
SURNAME Herting, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist, band leader and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne