Nicolai Thärichen

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Nicolai Thärichen 2017 at Jazz im Palmengarten in Frankfurt

Nicolai Thärichen (born December 30, 1969 in Berlin ) is a German jazz musician ( piano , arrangement , composition ).

Live and act

Thärichen comes from a family of musicians. His father Werner Thärichen was the principal timpani in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and also worked as a conductor and composer of new music . Nicolai began playing the piano at the age of five and later playing drums. At the Berlin University of the Arts he studied jazz piano a. a. with Walter Norris , Aki Takase , Kirk Nurock and David Friedman . His collaboration with the singer Michael Schiefel began in 1993 . In 1999 he brought together ten young musicians from the Berlin jazz scene to found the Thärichens Tentett ensemble , where he initially implemented the songs he had developed with Schiefel on a large scale. With this group he has recorded successes as well as several CDs and has toured among others in China and India (2009).

In 1996 and 1997 he composed and arranged for the Bundesjugendjazzorchester , in 2000 for the Rolf von Nordenskjöld Orchestra , and later also for Bobby McFerrin and music theater productions. In 2008 he arranged his own compositions for the hr big band ; In 2009, the Jazz meets Dada project with singer Michael Schiefel and speaker Michael Quast followed with the same ensemble . With the Marie Séférian Quartet, the pianist was seen many times in northern Germany in 2012.

Since 1998 Thärichen has been a lecturer at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin as well as a freelance pianist and composer. In 1995 he was a guest lecturer for composition and big band conducting at the Hanover University of Music and Theater.

The album An Berliner Kinder was created around the turn of the year 2011/2012 in Greve-Studio Berlin. With his tentet and vocalist Michael Schiefel, Thärichen set sound poems by the Dadaist Hugo Ball and Joachim Ringelnatzen's poems to music.

In 2012 Thärichen founded a formation that reinterprets pieces by Jimi Hendrix . As Thärichens Hendrixperience Orchestra featuring Annamateur , they performed on September 29, 2012 at the Leipzig Opera House at the Leipzig Jazz Days . In 2016 they released the album Thärichen's Hendrixperience Orchestra with the singer Lea W. Frey .

Nicolai Thärichen 2005 at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival

Discographic notes

  • No Half Measures ( Laika 2019)
  • Thärichens's Hendrixperience Orchestra (Laika 2016)
  • To Berlin Children ( Double Moon Records 2012)
  • Farewell Songs (Traumton 2009)
  • Grateful ( minor music 2005)
  • The Thin Edge (minor music 2002)
  • Lady Moon (minor music 2000)

Web links and sources

Commons : Nicolai Thärichen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.thaerichen.de/pdf/thaerichen_biographie.pdf
  2. ↑ Review of the Fuldaer Zeitung  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fuldaerzeitung.de
  3. ↑ http://www.jazz-institut-berlin.de/index.php?erste_ebene=1&zweite_ebene=2&dritte_ebene=4
  4. ↑ Jazz and Humor - Bebop bittersweet , Spiegel online from October 13, 2012, accessed October 17, 2012
  5. ^ Thärichen's Hendrixperience Orchestra. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Jazz album of the week No Half Measures. NDR , accessed December 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Nicolai Thärichen at Leika Records. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ A good way of setting it to music. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 7, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Thärichen, Nicolai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin