Remy Filipovitch
Remy Filipovitch (born April 21, 1946 in Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR ; † May 27, 2018 in Essen ) was a Lithuanian jazz musician (saxophone, flute, clarinet, composition).
Live and act
Filipovitch learned the clarinet as a student. From 1962 to 1966 (during his school days) he was a member of Vyacheslav Ganelin's ensemble . From 1967 to 1971 he studied at the Chopin Conservatory in Warsaw ; During this time he played with Zbigniew Namysłowski , Tomasz Stańko and Zbigniew Seifert . From 1971 to 1974 he was able to continue his studies at Berklee College of Music , where he performed with Alan Dawson . He later played with Gary Burton and Miroslav Vitouš . Then he took lessons at the Mozarteum with George Gruntz . He settled in Germany and worked with Paul Kuhn and his SFB Big Band , Harald Banters Media Orchestra , Kurt Edelhagen , Walter Norris , Bobby Burgess , Lee Konitz , Leo Wright and Jiggs Whigham . In 1990 he toured Lithuania and in 1991 with Ted Curson through the United States. In 2002 he was on tour with a quintet that he directed with Zbigniew Namysłowski. With the WDR Big Band Cologne and the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne he recorded his extensive composition "Baltic Song" (1985). He also wrote theater and film music . His compositions have received national and international awards, such as the 1982 Ernst Fischer Prize of the GEMA Foundation for the piece "Pictures" .
Filipovitch taught at the University of Duisburg and at the Folkwang University in Essen .
Ilse Storb rated Filipovitch's improvisations as “virtuoso, rich in contrasts, antithetical . He had a pronounced scale play and used expressive, circular, z. Small motifs partly designed by chromatics . "
Discographic notes
- All Day Long (1982, with Roman Dyląg and Ronnie Stephenson )
- Open Your Eyes (1991, with Gediminas Laurinavicius)
- Go! (2003, with Zbigniew Namysłowski, Krzytof Herdzin, Olo Walicki and Grzegorz Grzyb)
- Sixty Bicycles (2008, with Thomas Hufschmidt , Walfried Böcker and Alan Jones )
Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
Web links
- Web presence
- Remy Filipovitch at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Remy Filipovitch obituary notice (WAZ). In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
- ↑ different date May 17th in Remy Filipovitch (obituary). Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Entry (composers lexicon)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Filipovitch, Remy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pilypaitis-Filipovitch, Remigius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian jazz musician (saxophone, flute, clarinet, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 2018 |
| Place of death | eat |