Peter Lehel
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Peter Lehel (born September 13, 1965 in Karlsruhe ) is a German jazz musician (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, tárogató) and composer .
Live and act
Lehel began playing the saxophone when he was twelve. Between 1988 and 1996 he studied jazz and popular music at the music academies in Stuttgart and Budapest . He leads his own formations such as the Peter Lehel Quartet and has been a member of the groups Pipes & Phones since 1993 with the Stuttgart organist and composer Peter Schindler and the band SaltaCello, which is particularly popular in South Korea . In 1996 he performed in the Jazz Meets Classics project with Dino Saluzzi . The Finefones Saxophone Quartet is currently one of his most important projects.
With the Hoppel Hoppel Rhythm Club , Lehel is committed to the pedagogical teaching of jazz to children. As a composer he dedicates himself, among other things, to the integration of jazz soloists into the classical chamber orchestra or string orchestra. As a composer and arranger he works a. a. for the clarinetist Sabine Meyer , the clarinetists Wolfgang Meyer and Paquito D'Rivera and the Hammond organ virtuoso Barbara Dennerlein . In 2011 he initiated the Jazz Ensemble Baden-Württemberg .
Lehel is co-owner of the independent record label finetone music . Since 2004 he has been a lecturer for jazz / harmony / improvisation and big band at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe . In 2014 he took over the artistic direction of the newly founded young band Jazz Juniors of the Baden-Württemberg State Music Council.
In 2011, Advance Music published the teaching and play-along book Crossover Pieces for Saxophone .
Prizes and awards
Lehel was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize in 1997 . Several productions in which he was involved received the German Record Critics' Prize (2000 and 2006).
Discography (selection)
- Mood Antigua - Slow Boat to Taiwan 2020 / Finefones Saxophone Quartet / Peter Lehel / Olaf Schönborn / Christian Steuber / Pirmin Ullrich
- Sonority 2019, Jim Snidero / Finefones Saxophone Quartet / Peter Lehel / Olaf Schönborn / Christian Steuber / Pirmin Ullrich
- Nocturne 2019, Wolfgang Meyer / Peter Lehel / Thomas Stabenow / Thilo Wagner
- Hidden Tracks 2018, Peter Lehel / Thomas Gunther / Ull Möck / Kálmán Oláh
- Aria 2018, Peter Lehel / Peter Schindler
- Lyrical Album 2016, Peter Lehel / Kalman Olah / Mini Schulz
- Missa in Jazz 2016, Peter Lehel Quartet with the Baden-Württemberg Chamber Choir
- Chamber Jazz 2015, Peter Lehel Quartet with Anna Toró & Wolfgang Meyer
- Moonlight & Lovesongs 2015, Peter Lehel Quartet with Siegfried Rauch
- Wolfgang Meyer The Clarinet 2014 with Will Sanders, Ull Möck, Axel Kühn , Michael Kersting , Georges Soyka & Bigband HfM Karlsruhe (director Peter Lehel)
- Peter Lehel, Wolfgang Meyer Two of a Kind 2013 with Sabine Meyer , Reiner Wehle, Christian Ruvolo
- Peter Lehel & Henning Wiegränke Bone Talks 2012
- Song of Praise 2012 - Peter Lehel Quartet with Young Chamber Choir Baden-Württemberg (direction Jochen Woll)
- Funk-a-lot 2011, Finefones Saxophone Quartet / Peter Lehel / Olaf Schönborn / Christian Steuber / Pirmin Ullrich
- Barbara Dennerlein Trio Bebabaloo 2010
- Wolfgang Meyer & Peter Lehel Choro e Bossa Nova 2009, with Ull Möck, Mini Schulz, Markus Faller
- Wolfgang Meyer Boleros 2007 with Ull Möck, Mini Schulz, Markus Faller - Prize of the German Record Critics
- Peter Lehel Quartet Soul Balance 2007 - Peter Lehel Quartet & Artisfact Chamber Orchestra
- Barbara Dennerlein Trio and State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate Change of Pace 2006
- Hoppel Hoppel Rhythm Club Vol. 2 2005 with Mini Schulz, Obi Jenne - Prize of the German Record Critics
- Thomas Bierling , Peter Lehel, Eva Weis right harmonious 2005
- Peter Lehel Quartet Live at Birdland 59 2004 - Peter Lehel Quartet
- Peter Lehel & Kálmán Oláh Hungarian Rhapsody 2002 Trio Midnight, Budapest Chamber Orchestra
- Peter Lehel, Ull Möck Joy to the World 2000
- Pipes & Phones Suites 1999, with Peter Schindler, Markus Faller, Herbert Joos - German Record Critics' Award
Publications at advance music / Schott / Edition Gruber
- Two of a Kind (Duos for Clarinet or Saxophone)
- Crossover Pieces for Saxophone (play-along)
- Cuel Bloo
- Eddie who?
- Shades of Light
- Shuffle, shuffle
- Funk-A-Lot
- Bb-Flat-A-Loogoo
Publications at edition49
- Beethoven Five
- Hungarian dance No. 5
- Varmland
- Adagio e Fughette
- waltz
- Variations House of the rising Sun
Publications at Rodluc
- Fantasy for Saxophone & Wind Orchestra
- Latin Aspects
Compositions (selection)
- for octet
- 2016 "When Future Smiles"
Opening of the European Culture Days Karlsruhe 2016
- for woodwind duo
- 2012 "Two of a kind":
- Concertinette
- Cruisin`
- Count 3 & 2
- Change
- Cubaismn
- Challenge
- for saxophone quartet
- 2019 Songs for Taipei (Cheng-Yu Lee / Lehel)
- 2019 Hot Blue Balkan Polka
- 2019 Papa Groove
- 2019 Tranquil Street (Sam Su / Lehel)
- 2019 The Garden
- 2019 Taiwan Saxophone View # 1 (Trad. / Lehel)
- 2019 Taiwan Saxophone View # 2 (Trad. / Lehel)
- 2019 Song for my Papa (Shawna Yang / Lehel)
- 2019 Spherical Blues
- 2014 Pavane (Fauré / Lehel)
- 2014 Libertango (Piazzolla / Lehel)
- 2014 Vilia (Lehár / Lehel)
- 2014 Reverie (Debussy / Lehel)
- 2014 Gavotte (Bach / Lehel)
- 2014 Brahms meets Santana (Brahms / Santana / Lehel)
- 2014 For a night full of bliss (Kreuder / Lehel)
- 2014 Adagio (Albinoni / Lehel)
- 2014 Stride la Vampa (Verdi / Lehel)
- 2014 Moldova (Smetana / Lehel)
- 2014 The Garden
- 2012 Losing my Mind
- 2011 Now & Then
- 2011 Presidential Suite
- 2011 anima
- 2009 Cuel Bloo
- 2009 Bb-Flat-A-Loogoo
- 2009 Shades Of Light
- 2009 Eddie Who?
- 2009 Shuffle, Shuffle
- 2009 Funk-A-Lot
- 2009 Little Lady
- 2008 folk song
- 2008 Juliska
- 2008 Kind Of Blues
- 2005/8 Moving In
- 2005/8 Seven To Heaven
- 2005/8 Elegy
- 2005/8 waltzing out
- 2002/8 Bartók Sketch
- for choir
- 2018 The Hussar Ride for Choir & Saxophone
- 2018 Yoska Csárdás for Choir & Saxophone
- 2011 Song 0f Praise for Choir & Saxophone
- for symphony orchestra
- 2011 Double Concerto for Saxophone & Clarinet
- for symphonic wind orchestra
- 2013 Concertino for Euphonium & Saxophone
- 2012 Latin Aspects
- 2005 Fantasy for saxophone and symphonic wind orchestra
- for symphonic woodwind orchestra
- 2014 Wind Academy Grand Opening
- 2012 Wind Academy
- for big band
- 2016 Losing my Mind
- 2016 Pavane
- 2013 Double Concerto
- 2012 Two of a wooden kind
- 2011 Change to change
- 2010 Hungarian Rhapsody For Bigband
- 2010 The Hussar Ride (Funk-A-Lot)
- 2009 Anima (Arr.Jochen Welsch)
- 2007 Trane's Mood
- 2006 Cake Waltz
- 2005 Mr. President
- for big band & symphony orchestra
- 2008 Trane's Symphony
- for brass ensemble
- 2010 fantasy
- 2010 Adagio
- 2010 Funk-A-Lot
- 2010 brasserie
- for string orchestra and saxophone
- 2008 Adagio
- 2004 Saxophone Concerto
- 2002 metamorphoses
- 2001 fantasy
- for trombone, string orchestra and jazz trio
- 2010 Adagio
- 2009 Seven to Heaven
- 2008 Trombone Concertino
- for string orchestra and jazz quartet
- 2002 Hungarian Rhapsody
- for string quartet
- 2009 Little Lady
- 2008 Juliska
- 2008 Kind of Blues
- 2005/8 Moving In
- 2005/8 Seven to Heaven
- 2005/8 Elegy
- 2005/8 waltzing out
- 2002/8 Bartók Sketch
- for church organ & saxophone
- 1999 Blue Suite
- 1996 Pipes & Phones
- 1992 plague
- for piano
- 2008 Bolero for a Bird
- 2008 anima
- 2008 Kind of Blues
- for other occupations
- 2010 Cake Waltz
- 2010 heavy rotation
- 2010 Oblivion
- 2009 Mandoo-Loogoo
- 2009 Blue Cool
- 2009 Shades of Light
- 2009 Little Lady
- 2009 shufflette
- 2008 Search for Woodwinds & Strings
Lexical entries
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Web links
- Peter Lehel's website
- Peter Lehel at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazz Ensemble Baden-Württemberg (Jazzthing)
- ^ Directory of lecturers at the Karlsruhe University of Music
- ↑ Jazzjuniors ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lehel, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute) and composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe , Germany |