Nicolas Simion
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Nicolas Simion , actually Nicolae Simion , (* 1959 in Dumbrăvița , Brașov County ) is a Romanian jazz saxophonist and composer .
Live and act
Simion attended the music high school in Brașov and studied classical music at the music academy in Bucharest . In the 1980s he founded his first band Opus 4 with Mircea Tiberian and Dan Mândrilă , with which he performed successfully in Romania and at jazz festivals in Warsaw and East Berlin .
In 1989 he moved to Vienna , where he had the first opportunity to work with Western musicians such as Art Farmer , Leo Wright , Idris Muhammad , Jim Pepper , Harry Sokal and Christian Muthspiel . In 1992 his first own album Black Sea was released . He became a member of the Mal Waldron quartet , with whom the duo CD The Big Rochade was created in 1998 . He also worked with the Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko and was a soloist in Gunther Schuller's project The Music of Jim Pepper .
Simion has lived in Cologne since 1997 . Here was u. a. the CD Balkan Jazz with the Yugoslav trumpeter Dusko Goykovich . He also performed with the pianist János Kőrössy and the saxophonist Lee Konitz . In 2006 he went on a tour with James Singleton and Alan Jones under the motto Transylvania meets New Orleans . Since 2004 he has also been on the road several times in a duo with Florian Weber , with whom he also orientates himself on classical material. In 2004 he recorded Sabin Pautza's saxophone concerto .
For the ballet music The Unfinished Square , a work commissioned by the Austrian Ministry of Culture, Simion was awarded the Körnerpreis in 1996. His Cancioneri Sacrale for large orchestra and jazz ensemble was premiered in 1999 in the Ruprechtskirche in Vienna . He also composed works for wind ensembles, string and saxophone orchestras.
Simion has been teaching saxophone and clarinet at the Mönchengladbach Music School since 2006 . As the label boss, Simion has been running the record company "7Dreams Records" since 2004.
He was awarded one of the four WDR jazz prizes awarded in 2015 in the improvisation category. The prize is endowed with a total of 30,000 euros. The award ceremony was announced for January 30, 2015 in the Konzerthaus Dortmund as part of the WDR 3 Jazz Festival.
Discographic notes
- Black Sea with Graham Haynes , Lonnie Plaxico , Ronnie Burrage and Ron Burton , 1992
- Dinner for Don Carlos with Tomasz Stańko, Ed Schuller and Patrice Héral , 1993
- Transylvanian Dance with Tomasz Stańko, Victor Jones and Ed Schuller, 1995
- Unfinished Square with Tomasz Stańko, Nils Wogram , Andreas Mayerhofer , Ed Schuller, Jamey Haddad , 1996
- Back to the Roots with Glen Fisher and Peter Perfido , 1997
- The Big Rochade with Mal Waldron , 1999
- Viaggio Imaginario with Tomasz Stańko, Christian Muthspiel, Ed Schuller, Peter Perfido, Angus “Bangus” Thomas and Jamey Haddad , 1999
- Nick at Night with Andy McKee and Billy Kilson , 2000
- Balkan Jazz with Dusko Goykovich, Martin Gjakonovski , Geoff Goodman , Norbert Scholly , Tom Skinner and Ramesh Shotham , 2001
- Live At Stockwerk Graz 2001 with Lee Konitz, János Kőrössy , James Singleton and Peter Perfido , 2003
- Transsylvanian Jazz with Zoltán Lantos , Martin Lubenov, Giani Lincan, Sorin Romanescu, Martin Gjakonovski and Boris Petrov, 2009
- Nicolas Simion Group & Chamber Strings Orchestra Brașov Classic Meets Jazz with Antonis Anissegos , Norbert Scholly, Chris Dahlgren , Alan Jones
- Magic Drops with Fausto Beccalossi and Florian Weber, 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ WDR Jazz Prize 2015 for Nicolas Simion. moenchengladbach.de, November 13, 2014, accessed on November 15, 2014 .
- ↑ WDR Jazz Prize - Nicolas Simion awarded . In: Rheinische Post . November 15, 2014, p. C8 regional section Mönchengladbach .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simion, Nicolas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simion, Nicolae (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian jazz saxophonist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dumbrăvița , Brașov County |