Ronald Hänsch

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Ronald "Arnold" Hänsch (born July 27, 1966 in Potsdam ) is a German jazz trumpeter , flugelhorn player , composer and music teacher.

Live and act

Hänsch grew up in Werder / Havel and received trumpet lessons from Herbert Kamprath from 1976 to 1983 at the "Gebrüder Benda" district music school in Potsdam . From 1983 to 1987 he studied at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin with Hans-Joachim Graswurm and Claus-Dieter Knispel and graduated as a trumpeter in 1987, and in 1991 as a qualified music teacher.

From 1985 to 1989 Ronald Hänsch played in the funk rock band LAMA and took part in radio, television and record productions with them. After his military service as a flugelhorn player in the Central Orchestra of the NVA , he worked in the big bands of Dieter Keitel and Alfons Wonneberg , in the Hubert Katzenbeier sextet and in the Rolf von Nordenskjöld orchestra.

With his seven-member Arnold Hänsch Jazz Band, founded in 1993, he took part in events at the Komische Oper Berlin , the Doge's Palace in Venice, at jazz festivals and at the Potsdam Palace Night. During this time, Hänsch was engaged for recordings and shows, performed with the "Radio Big Band Berlin" (East), the "Orchester Günter Gollasch ", the television orchestra Joachim "Jo" Kurzweg , the big band "Berlin Brass Machine", the " Big Band of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ", with the Brandenburg Philharmonic Potsdam and the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg . There were also commitments to the musicals Shakespeare & Rock'n'Roll (1997) and Dreamgirls in the Theater des Westens , to the shows of the Friedrichstadtpalast Elements, Jingle Bells, Berlin Revue, Wunderbar, Revue Palast, Hexen, Casanova, Glanzlichter, Rhythmus Berlin, Qi and YMA , for the Threepenny Opera production by Klaus Maria Brandauer in the Admiralspalast Berlin 2006 as well as in various show bands with whom he toured Hungary, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Poland, Cuba and Russia. He worked with various soloists from popular music, jazz and classical music such as Gitte Hænning , Wencke Myhre , Bill Ramsey , Klaus Doldinger , Paul Kuhn , Campino , Heino , Rex Gildo , Ack van Rooyen , Deborah Sasson and Ruth Hohmann .

Since 1998 he has been a permanent member of the ensemble “Jazz im Frack”. In 2004 he co-founded the “Celebration Orchestra Germany” and the “Celebration Horns”, which have been working together with the “Antenne Allstarband” from Antenne Brandenburg since 2005 . In the summer of 2005 he went on a study trip to Cuba and took lessons with Enrique M. Rodriguez in Havana .

In 1988 he started teaching. He taught trumpet, jazz ensemble, Dixieland band, big band and improvisation from 1988 to 1995 at the Hanns Eisler University of Music, since 1991 at the Potsdam City Music School, from 1994 to 1996 at the University of Potsdam, from 2001 until 2003 at the Free University of Berlin and from 1992 to 1996 at the music schools in Berlin-Tempelhof and 1995/96 in Neubrandenburg. In January 1994, Hänsch founded his own music school in Potsdam. In the same year the big band “Big Pack” was founded and built up at the municipal music school “Johann-Sebastian Bach” in Potsdam.

In addition, Hänsch also works as a lecturer, leader of jazz workshops, event manager and as a consultant and juror in the “ youth jazz ” work. Hänsch composes and arranges for “Jazz im Frack”, his “Jazz Band” and by order.

literature

  • Friedel Keim: The big book of the trumpet. Instrument, history, trumpeter lexicon. Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-7957-0530-4 , pp. 177, 712.
  • Reiner Bratfisch (Ed.): Free tones. The jazz scene in the GDR. Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-370-7 , pp. 122, 124, 290.
  • Götz Hintze: rock band LAMA. In: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 88.
  • Lilian Teuschler: Llama - that sounds like a beast. In: melody and rhythm . 7/1986.
  • 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 , p. 133.
  • Gerhard Hopfe: Ronald "Arnold" Hänsch builds the jazz bridge to Havana. In: Jazz Podium . 3/2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Hänsch, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hänsch, Arnold (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam