Peter Lehel

Peter Lehel at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival 2016

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

1. ↑ Jazz Ensemble Baden-Württemberg (Jazzthing)
2. ^ Directory of lecturers at the Karlsruhe University of Music
3. ↑ 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.