Stephan-Max Wirth

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Stephan-Max Wirth (born March 7, 1968 in Tettnang ) is a German jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone ), composer and producer .

Stephan-Max Wirth, Marburg 2015

Live and act

Wirth received his first lesson from Leszek Zadlo in Munich. After completing his studies at the Dutch University of the Arts in Arnhem with Jörg Kaufmann , he came to Cologne in 1995. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1999. With his own Stephan-Max Wirth Ensemble , which he founded in 1992 , he undertook international tours that brought him a. a. led to Portugal, Poland and Greece.

Wirth played a. a. with Jens Winther , Peter Herbolzheimer , Julia Hülsmann , Hazel Leach , Tino Derado , Kevin Burrell, Thomasz Kupiez, Henning Wolter , André Nendza , Eric Schaefer , Christoph Hillmann , Bill Ramsey and Ack van Rooyen . In 1993 he founded his own record label BOS.REC.

In 1996, after several days at the Athens club Half Note, a live album was created that documents his guest performances in Greece. The recording Mythos (1997) presents chansons that have been modally reharmonized and combined with German singing.

Cologne arranger Thomas Forkert arranged selected compositions from the 2001 CD fish & monkey for big band ; the title track fish and monkey is in the repertoire of numerous big bands. In 2004 Stephan-Max Wirth released the album Illumination . It was overtone singing with modern jazz -Harmonik and Sitar linked-lines, creating an unusual sound structure. In 2004 he received the Berlin Senate's Studio Award for this album.

Stephan-Max Wirth dealt repeatedly with cross-genre projects. In 2006 the stage play DADA Republic! for jazz ensemble, 3 dancers and live video projection. Together with the Leipzig ballet director Mario Schröder , a form was developed to continue jazz on the level of ballet and film. The idea was based on a previously unrealized script by the Flemish Dadaist Paul van Ostaijen . The project premiered at the JazzFest Berlin '06 . Further performances took place at the Markgrafentheater in Erlangen , at the North German Dance Meeting in Greifswald, in the Landeskulturzentrum Salzau and at the Kiel Theater Festival. The DVD / CD DADA Republic! Live at JazzFest Berlin was nominated for the German Record Critics' best list . The film premiere took place in 2009 at the Bauhaus Dessau .

Influenced by the death of Alice Coltrane , who died in 2007, the album multiple pulse - a tribute to Alice Coltrane was created in 2009 . This CD was nominated for the JAZZ-ECHO German Music Prize 2010 in the Ensemble of the Year category.

Discographic notes

Stephan-Max Wirth (2017)
  • The Noise of Starlight (1993)
  • Live at the Half Note Jazz Club Athens (1996)
  • Myth (1997)
  • Jazz Chanson (1999)
  • fish & monkey (2001, with Konstantin Wienstroer )
  • Illumination (2004)
  • DADA Republic! Jazz - Film– Dance CD / DVD (2008)
  • Multiple Pulse - A Tribute to Alice Coltrane (2009)
  • Passion (2012)
  • The Inner Draft (2015)
  • Live experience. 25 years SMWE - the legendary live recordings of the 2010s (2019) with Jaap Berends , Bub Boelens , Florian Hoefnagels

Web links

Commons : Stephan-Max Wirth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Review of Illumination on laut.de.
  2. ↑ a b Stephan-Max Wirth (jaro)
  3. ↑ http://optische-bank.com/en/show/dada-republic
  4. ^ Jazz reconciles the people from the dvd Dada Republic! (YouTube)
  5. ↑ Stephan-Max Wirth Ensemble with "A Tribute To Alice Coltrane" concert and film screening  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lifepr.de  
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Stephan-Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (tenor and soprano saxophone), composer and producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Tettnang