Norbert Vollath
Norbert Vollath (born September 25, 1956 in Parkstein , Neustadt an der Waldnaab district ; † October 1, 2015 in Sligo ) was a German jazz and improvisation musician ( saxophone , bass clarinet ) and sound artist .
Live and act
After graduating from high school, Vollath studied pedagogy in the Regensburg diploma course . In the local music scene since the early 1980s, he founded the formation Die Negerländer together with Heinz Grobmeier and Bertl Wenzl in 1984 . With this band he deconstructed familiar melodies in order to reassemble them "weird" but still recognizable. At the Regensburg Silent Film Nights, the trio played new soundtracks to film classics such as Buster Keaton's The General or Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Baghdad . In 1997 he founded the Duo de Clarinettes-Basses with Michael Reisinger . With Anka Draugelates he formed the duo Extrakt , with the Irish musician Mary Ronayne-Keane he appeared in the duo L'Isamon . He also played in the German-Irish formation Waterghost . He composed for the theater and for literary projects, produced various albums and toured in Germany, France, Hungary, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Scotland and Ireland, where he found a second home. In 2014 he created his sound installation submerged IV , which he presented in the exhibition “Into the Field” in Sligo.
Prizes and awards
With the trio Die Negerländer Vollath was awarded the Culture Prize of the City of Regensburg in 1995. In 2002 he received an international scholarship sponsored by the Künstlerhaus Schwandorf .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vollath, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz and improvisation musician (saxophone, bass clarinet, composition) and sound artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parkstein , Neustadt an der Waldnaab district |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 2015 |
| Place of death | Sligo |