Philipp Brämswig

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Philipp Brämswig (2018 in the Subway )

Philipp Brämswig (born 1980 ) is a German jazz guitarist , composer and band leader of modern jazz .

Life

Brämswig grew up in Lohne and learned to play the guitar when he was eight. At first he was more fascinated by rock guitar playing styles and heavy metal, only through his guitar teachers did he notice jazz guitarists, in particular Pat Metheny , John Scofield and Wayne Krantz . He became a member of the Lower Saxony Youth Jazz Orchestra and later of the BuJazzO under Peter Herbolzheimer . He also took part in various competitions ( Jugend musiziert , Jugend jazz , Jazz over Hannover , Biberacher Jazzpreis ), solo or in an ensemble .

During his master's degree in Jazz Studies at the Amsterdam Conservatory , he managed to win a talent development grant that gave him the financial means to continue studying in New York City for a few months and taking lessons with Wayne Krantz, Ben Monder , Chris Crocco and Dave Liebman to obtain. He lived in the Netherlands until 2010 and mainly worked musically in the bands New Generation Big Band , Renske Taminiau and Pete Philly & Perquisite . Concert tours have taken him to South Korea, Belgium, Poland, the Balkans, France, Denmark, Estonia and Switzerland. He played with Richie Beirach , Candy Dulfer , John Goldsby , Charlie Mariano , Bob Mintzer and the WDR Big Band .

Philipp Brämswig has lived and worked in Cologne since 2010 . He is married to the French jazz musician Christine Corvisier (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet); with her he also performs professionally as the duo Die Brämswigs . He is also active in a quartet formation with Stefan Karl Schmid , as well as in the projects / bands Mengamo Trio , Ana Mai , Florian Ross Big Company and the Subway Jazz Orchestra .

In August 2013 he was guitar and rhythm group tutor for “BuJazzO”. He has a teaching position for pop guitar at the "Institute for Music" at the University of Osnabrück .

The album Molecular Soul , recorded in the Deutschlandfunk -Kammermusiksaal with Florian Rynkowski b and Fabian Arends dr , shows contemporary jazz rock with grooves , long solos and wide-awake interplay and “atmospheric textures”. All eleven compositions on the CD are by Philipp Brämswig.

Discographic Notes

Albums under your own name or as a co-leader
Involved as a sideman / band member

Awards

  • 2000: Jazzspatz main prize at the Jugend jazzt competition for the sextet “Groove Conspiracy” with Brämswig on guitar.
  • 2013: Futuresounds finalists: the Cologne band Luciel with Brämswig on guitar.
  • 2017: New German Jazz Prize , finalist: Philipp Brämswig Trio.

Web links

Commons : Philipp Brämswig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Databases
Content

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Jazzfacts: Portrait of the guitarist Philipp Brämswig , Deutschlandfunk July 2016, accessed July 28, 2016
  2. ↑ 52nd working phase August 2013 , Musikrat, accessed July 28, 2016
  3. ↑ Lecturer at the Institute for Music ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2016 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. , Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, accessed July 28, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hs-osnabrueck.de
  4. ↑ Philipp Brämswig Trio - Molecular Soul , Discogs album facts, accessed July 28, 2016
  5. ↑ Stefan Karl Schmid / Philipp Brämswig: Anima, 2015 , accessed on July 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ Philipp Brämswig Trio: Molecular Soul , Jazz thing from May 30, 2016, accessed July 28, 2016
  7. ↑ Groove Conspiracy and Jakob Dreyer get the "Jazzspatzen" , jazz-over-hannover December 31, 2000, accessed July 28, 2016
  8. ^ The 2013 finalists , accessed on July 28, 2016.
  9. ^ New German Jazz Prize 2017 , ig-jazz.de, accessed July 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Brämswig, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brämswig, Philipp Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz guitarist, composer and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1980