Oliver Ringleb (pianist)

Oliver Ringleb (born April 18, 1967 in Munich ) is a German pianist , keyboardist (also jazz piano ) and composer .

Live and act

Oliver Ringleb grew up in Munich- Harlaching ; his father played guitar and trombone (in a pop / rock band). First he received an early musical education after Carl Orff , from 1973 lessons on the recorder ; he also became a member of the school choir, with which he performed regularly. a. in the Munich Herkulessaal . In 1976 he switched to the home organ, the majority of which he learned to play as an autodidact . At the Theodolinden-Gymnasium in Munich he founded his first school band, the "Waste Paper Baskets", with some of his classmates. With the comic artist Christian Moser he founded the band "Jive at Five". From 1992 to 1995 Ringleb studied piano, singing as well as composition and arrangement at the Neue Jazzschool Munich .

In 1984 Ringleb became the keyboardist of the Munich funk & soul band Supersonic ; He also worked as a live and studio musician , among others with Robin Beck , Tom Pollitzer ( Tower of Power ), Karl Frierson ( De Phazz ), Mic Donet , Ron Williams and Eisi Gulp . He composed the music for two of Christian Moser's films and arranged for Donet . In 1995 he founded the party band “Soulkitchen” together with Stefan Köhl, which gave over 1000 concerts in Germany and abroad and released eight recordings. Worldwide concert tours have taken the musicians to China, Russia, Romania, Morocco, Belgium, France, Spain, Holland, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Spain, Hungary and Switzerland. He also presented three solo albums. In 2017 Piano Girl was published , a piano book specially composed for girls.

In addition, Ringleb worked as a piano teacher at the Ohrwurm music school and, from 2013, at his own piano school, the Klavierseele .

Discographic notes

1986: The Earwig Disk (LP, only for three titles)
2000: Soulkitchen Maxi CD
2001: Soulkitchen Live & Unplugged
2004: Mic Donet Still Waters
2005: Soulkitchen Ain't no Stoppin 'Us Now
2005/2006: Soulkitchen 10th Anniversary
2010: Soulkitchen Best Of
2011: Places
2012: Mic Donet Plenty of Love
2013: Water Circus
2016: Isar Beauty
2018: Soulkitchen VIII

Film music

1985: The Last Boat (Christian Moser)
1986: The Valley of Myths (Christian Moser)
2004: Where colleague from where colleague ( reception hall )

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personal data
SURNAME	Ringleb, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German keyboardist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich