Peter Autschbach

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Peter Autschbach (born September 19, 1961 in Siegen ) is a German guitarist , composer and music teacher .

biography

Peter Autschbach 2007 at the guitar festival "Open Strings" in Osnabrück

Peter Autschbach first learned to play the guitar as an autodidact, in 1988/89 he was a private guitar student of Joe Pass . In 1990 he graduated with honors from jazz studies at the Cologne University of Music . In order to enable the composing and publishing of his own pieces, he then worked as a musical service provider: In the rock opera Tommy by The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, he worked as a guitarist in around 1000 shows between 1995 and 2005. Then he was guitarist at the Theater Dortmund in musicals such as Cabaret (2002) or West Side Story (2004). Later he was guitarist on the Queen show We Will Rock You (musical) in Cologne and Vienna. Peter Autschbach's Terminal A formation has been touring Germany and abroad since 1998 . Peter Autschbach also gave concerts solo and in collaboration with Barbara Dennerlein , Philip Catherine , Ramesh Shotham , Martin Kolbe , Dave Goodman, Jacques Stotzem , Joscho Stephan and Ulli Bögershausen . Since 2009 Autschbach has been playing in a duo with the singer Samira Saygili . He has been working with guitarist Ralf Illenberger since 2010, and both duos have given hundreds of concerts since then.

Act

Joscho Stephan in a duo with Peter Autschbach 2020

Since 1998, Peter Autschbach's compositions have been recorded on 15 CDs in various formations from solo guitar to orchestra. In 2013, the US guitar manufacturer Larrivée developed an electric guitar based on Autschbach's ideas, the "Autschbach Model". Larrivée put Peter Autschbach's idea of ​​a new type of pickup with offset coils (twisted coil humbuckers) into practice. The guitar maker Johannes Striebel from Wolfratshausen also honored the musician with four different Autschbach signature series. As solo guitarist and interpreter of his fingerstyle compositions, Peter Autschbach has been invited to tours to Singapore (2011, 2012 and 2019) and Japan (2014 and 2017). Together with the guitarist Ralf Illenberger, three CDs with compositions by the two actors were released. In 2017 Peter Autschbach created the music, text and arrangement for the song "Wir sind Demokratie" as a commissioned composition for the industrial union IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie . The piece was premiered with the singers Samira Saygili and Sabine Kühlich and more than 60 participating musicians on October 8, 2017 in Hanover at the opening of the IG-BCE trade union congress. The Japanese label Da Vinci released Peter Autschbach's solo jazz guitar album "Begin At The End" in April 2018. In November 2018 Autschbach could be heard with Samira Saygili as part of Peter Finger's "International Guitar Night" tour. The two presented their duo album "Sweeter Than Honey", which was released at the end of 2018. On December 14th, 2019 the duo Saygili-Autschbach won 1st prize in the "Best Singer" category and an award in the special category "Best Guitarist" with the song "Holobiont" (music: Peter Autschbach, text: Samira Saygili) the event German Rock and Pop Prize .

Textbook author and music lecturer

Autschbach has been teaching at the Lennestadt Music School since 1990, leading guitar workshops in Germany, Europe and Asia and he has published 17 textbooks for guitar and guitar schools . He developed new didactic methods used by many teachers, such as the electric guitar textbook "Let's Rock" and the two-volume acoustic guitar school "Rock On Wood". The textbook "Learn to play guitar with Zacky and Bob" for children aged 8 and over, published by Schott Music in 2016 , teaches you to play the entire fingerboard right from the start, allowing you to experience the guitar as a whole. For this purpose Autschbach composed 90 easily playable guitar pieces for this two-volume work, illustrated by the graphic artist Selina Peterson . There are explanatory videos for each piece on a homepage for the book. Since 1999 Peter Autschbach has been writing his own compositions for the “Fingerstyle Jazz” series for the specialist journal Akustik Guitar ; since 2011 he has also worked as a guitar lecturer for the columns "Acoustic Rock" and "Guitar Hero" for the workshop magazine Acoustic Player .

composer

Autschbach's compositions make up a large part of his work. His debut album "Chasing The Beat" already contained only his own compositions. Over decades, Peter Autschbach has developed his own tonal language that takes up elements of jazz , blues , rock and Latin American music . Unexpected modulations and rhythm changes cause surprises, but the music with its singable melodies always remains tonal and can therefore be understood and appreciated even by less experienced listeners. Autschbach's interpretations of well-known works are integrated into the recognizable stylistics of their own compositions through reharmonization and often through new rhythms.

Fonts

Peter Autschbach and Selina Peterson at the Musikmesse 2016
  • 2001 Guitar Pur Volume 1 , cross-style teaching material, textbook with CD, acoustic music books
  • 2003 Guitar Pur Volume 2 , cross-style teaching material, textbook with CD, acoustic music books
  • 2008 Let's Rock , electric guitar school, textbook with CD, acoustic music books
  • 2009 Improvisation Vol. 1 , textbook with DVD, fingerprint
  • 2009 Improvisation Vol. 2 , textbook with DVD, fingerprint
  • 2010 On Stage , Autschbach compositions with CD, Acoustic Music Books
  • 2011 Rock on Wood Volume 1 , textbook for acoustic rock with DVD, Acoustic Music Books
  • 2011 Best of Martin Kolbe + Ralf Illenberger , Compositions for 2 guitars, Acoustic Music Books
  • 2011 Theory Basics for Guitarists Vol.1 , harmony without sheet music with DVD, fingerprint
  • 2011 Theory Basics for Guitarists Vol.2 , harmony without sheet music with DVD, fingerprint
  • 2012 All in One - Rock Guitar Solos with CD, Acoustic Music Books
  • 2013 All in One - Blues Guitar Solos with CD, Acoustic Music Books
  • 2015 Rock on Wood Volume 2 , textbook for acoustic rock with DVD, Acoustic Music Books
  • 2016 Learn guitar with Zacky and Bob Volume 1 with CD, guitar textbook for children, Schott Music , illustration: Selina Peterson
  • 2017 Learn guitar with Zacky and Bob Volume 2 with CD, guitar textbook for children, Schott Music , illustration: Selina Peterson
  • 2018 My favorite pieces, Autschbach compositions with CD, fingerprint
  • 2019 The Songbook by Zacky and Bob 15 audition pieces with online audio files, Schott Music , illustration: Selina Peterson

Magazine articles

Discographic notes

  • 1998 Chasing the Beat (CD)
  • 2000 Under The Surface (CD)
  • 2002 Feelin 'Dunk (CD) feat. Barbara Dennerlein - Hammond Organ
  • 2004 Pass It on (CD) (A Tribute to Joe Pass)
  • 2006 Transcontinental (CD) Peter Autschbach's Terminal A
  • 2009 Summer Breeze (CD)
  • 2012 No Boundaries (CD) Peter Autschbach & Ralf Illenberger
  • 2014 You and Me (CD)
  • 2014 Songs From the Inside (CD) with Martin Kolbe
  • 2014 One Mind (CD) Peter Autschbach & Ralf Illenberger
  • 2017 Slow Motion (CD)
  • 2017 We are democracy (CD) Peter Autschbach
  • 2017 Zero Gravity (CD) Peter Autschbach & Ralf Illenberger
  • 2018 Begin At The End (CD) Peter Autschbach
  • 2018 Sweeter Than Honey (CD) Samira Saygili & Peter Autschbach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.autschbach.de/de/musik.html
  2. https://www.autschbach.de/en/workshop-jazz-in-Singapur.html/
  3. http://www.autschbach.de/de/Japan-Blog.html
  4. http://content.bitsontherun.com/previews/Pwtx5Zes-1kjv2Xmb
  5. https://davinci-edition.com
  6. http://www.guitar-night.de
  7. http://www.musiker-online.com/deutscher-rock-pop-preis-2019-gewinner/
  8. https://uebenundmusiken.de/artikel/lets-rock
  9. https://www.autschbach.de/pdf/buecher/Rezension-RockOnWood-1.pdf
  10. http://www.acoustic-player.de/autoren/peter-autschbach
  11. https://www.autschbach.de/de/vita.html