Peter Protschka

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Peter Protschka (2014)

Peter Protschka (born June 10, 1977 in Cologne ) is a German jazz trumpeter and composer who can also be heard as a classical soloist, especially in early music.

Act

Protschka has been active on the German and European scene as a jazz soloist, especially with his own groups, but also as a sought-after sideman since his jazz diploma at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts in 2003. In 2005 he passed a jazz concert exam at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . Since 2000 he has also been writing music for his formations, which are based on the American post-bop idiom, but always have a very personal European touch.

Since 2006 there have been regular publications with Protschka as leader or sideman with musicians such as Paul Heller , Dejan Terzic , Allen Blairman or Thomas Stabenow . Musicians like Jürgen Seefelder , Christian Ramond , Paul Heller, Martin Sasse and the American tenor saxophonist Rick Margitza, who lives in Paris, can be heard live and in the studio in his bands . Protschka has been working with the latter for many years in his jazz quintet, which tours Europe every year. In 2004 he was awarded the jazz scholarship of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation. In 2009 three of his compositions appeared in the German Book Vol. 1. , a selected collection of German contemporary jazz compositions.

In 2010 he also obtained a Master of Music in baroque trumpet at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. Accordingly, he has since moved in the area of ​​tension between European classical music and jazz , deals with early music on historical instruments, can also be experienced here with exposed orchestras from the early music scene, works regularly with the soprano Anna Herbst and presented a for the first time in summer 2009 Crossover program between jazz and classical music together with his father Josef Protschka . The collaboration with his father continues to this day.

Selected discography

  • 2002: Open your Eyes
  • 2007: Hi Voltage
  • 2008: Point of View
  • 2009: The Art of the Message
  • 2012: Kindred Spirits
  • 2015 Twilight Jamboree

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Protschka, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne