Rainer Temple

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Rainer Tempel (* 1971 in Tübingen ) is a German jazz pianist , band leader and composer .

Live and act

Tempel grew up in Mössingen and learned classical piano there. While at school he founded rock bands. In the mid-1980s he got in touch with jazz and was a member of the big band and combo of the youth music school in Mössingen. In 1993 he played in the Uni Bigband Tübingen ( Bobby Burgess ). In 1994 he began studying jazz piano with Martin Schrack at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg (1998 diploma thesis on Vince Mendoza ). In the following years Tempel founded several jazz formations for which he wrote numerous compositions. He also composes for theaters such as the Lindenhof Theater .

Rainer Tempel often plays with the following musicians: Matthias Erlewein , Joo Kraus , Frank Lauber , Frank Möbus , Axel Schlosser , Thomas Siffling , Claus Stötter ; He also runs a duo with the singer Fola Dada , which has released two albums with art songs composed by Tempel to texts by Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson . He was also a member of the Late Eight Big Band Stuttgart Klaus Graf (1997) and belonged to the groups of Ron Spielman (2003), HQL de Souza (2006) and Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band (2008). He had solo appearances with Till Brönner , Wolfgang Haffner , Christof Lauer , Nils Landgren , Tom Rainey , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Sebastian Studnitzky , Kenny Wheeler , Norma Winstone , Nils Wogram and Claudio Puntin .

He has composed and arranged for the following ensembles: NDR Big Band , HR Big Band , Big Band Blechschaden, Zurich Jazz Orchestra , Sunday Night Orchestra & Efrat Alony , Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen , RIAS Big Band Berlin , Theater Lindenhof, Big Band of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Ensemble Kontraste Nürnberg, Ron Spielman and Dieter Thomas Kuhn. As a guest conductor, he led the big bands of NDR, hr and the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, the JMS Stuttgart, Würzburg Jazz Orchestra, Sunday Night Orchestra, Mannheim Jazz Orchestra , the Bobby Burgess Big Band Explosion , and the orchestra of Mamma Mia! in the ( Palladium Theater Stuttgart ).

In 2001, in addition to working as a freelance musician, there was an intensive teaching activity as a university professor. After being professor for big band and arranging at the Lucerne School of Music from 2001 to 2010 , he was appointed professor for jazz composition at the Stuttgart State University for Music and Performing Arts in 2007 . Since 2014 he has been head of the jazz and pop department and head of the jazz course. In 2013, he replaced Bernd Konrad in the direction of the Baden-Württemberg Youth Jazz Orchestra . Tempel lives with his family in Tübingen.

Prizes and awards

Tempel received the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize (2002). He was also a scholarship holder of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation (2006)

Discography (selection)

  • Modern Walkin ' Greatest Hits Vol. 1 ( Satin Doll Productions , 1994)
  • Melodies of '98 ( Jazz4Ever , 1999)
  • Finger Food , Way Out (Leicom, 2004)
  • Woodwinds (Rodenstein, 2005)
  • Eleven (Rodenstein, 2008)
  • Album 03 (Jazz'n'arts, 2009)
  • Serious Fun (Jazz'n'arts, 2011)
  • Rainer Tempel & the substitute brothers Polyphonic (Rodenstein, 2013)
  • Rainer Tempel & Fola Dada Amherst, MA (Rodenstein, 2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry Rainer Tempel (Jazzclub Tübingen) ( Memento from December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.bigbandblechschaden.de/news.htm
  3. ↑ which he directed between 2006 and 2013
  4. ↑ http://www.hslu.ch/musik/m-ueber-uns/m-person.htm?id_person=600058&id_teilschule=25648&row=46
  5. ^ Vita of Prof. Rainer Tempel. HMDK Stuttgart, accessed on December 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Portrait (Youth Jazz Orchestra BaWü)
  7. ↑ http://www.kunststiftung.net/index.php?inhalt=kuenstler&id=30174&genre=3
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ meeting (jazzthing)

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personal data
SURNAME Temple, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist, band leader and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen