Stephan Diethelm

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Stephan Diethelm plays his glass instruments from Glasi Hergiswil

Stephan Diethelm (* 13. May 1965 in train , Switzerland ) is a musician , educator and concert - organizer .

Live and act

Stephan Diethelm was inspired by the rhythm in Africa when he lived in Zimbabwe with his parents for three years . After training to be a primary school teacher at the St. Michael Teacher Training College in Zug, he studied classical drums at the Conservatory in Zurich with the Tonhalle drummer Horst Hofmann and multipercussion and improvisation at the Lucerne Conservatory with Pierre Favre . He is a member of the Swiss Percussion Ensemble, with which he toured internationally and worked with John Cage , Matthias Ziegler and Christoph Baumann , among others . With his band Lyn Leon , which he started with Carolyn Leonhart and Matthias Eser, he recorded three CDs and was allowed to support Peter Gabriel and Al Jarreau .

Stephan Diethelm also composes. He wrote the music for the film "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress", about the cook Ferran Adrià , by filmmaker Gereon Wetzel. He recorded the film music with his glass instruments, which he developed together with the Glasi Hergiswil and Matthias Eser. Diethelm also composed “Dröhnendes Erz and a noisy kettledrum” - music for five organs, two voices (Foy Vance), glass and percussion for the monastery church in Muri .

Stephan Diethelm was the curator of the Aargau Board of Trustees from 2012 to 2019. He was chairman of the rock / pop / jazz department and also vice-president from 2016 to 2019.

Stephan Diethelm organizes the musig concert series in the pflegidach in Muri . American jazz musicians in particular appear in this series.

Stephan Diethelm teaches drums and percussion at the following grammar schools : Kantonsschule Wohlen , Alte Kantonsschule Aarau and Neue Kantonsschule Aarau .

Discography

  • "In a silent way" (vibraphone / guitar duo, 1990)
  • Swiss percussion ensemble with Matthias Ziegler (1992)
  • Martin Schlumpf's Bermuda Square "Cumulli" (1992)
  • Swiss percussion ensemble & Christoph Baumann (1995)
  • Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Swiss Percussion Ensemble as soloists with “From me flows what you call time” by Tōru Takemitsu (1995)
  • Martin Schlumpf "Four Seasons", the Swiss percussion ensemble plays "Spring" (1996)
  • Swiss Percussion Group and Carolyn Leonhart "Glass Songs" (1998)
  • Lyn Leon "Glass Lounge" (2001)
  • Lyn Leon "Private Pop" (2005)

Catalog raisonné

  • Horre - for one guitarist and four percussionists (1988)
  • Yesterdays - Variations on a Theme by J. Kern , for four percussionists (1989)
  • Forms - for four percussionists (1989)
  • Rutenga - for one pianist and four percussionists (1993)
  • Sut-i-nit - for flute, bass clarinet and percussion (1995)
  • Winter night, school days, end of the world, echoes, Styx, from a distance, In your eyes, Ruth, An old Tibetan carpet, songs for female choir, solo soprano, cello and percussion based on poems by Else Lasker-Schüler , Makrofag - for four percussionists (1996 )
  • Atmospheres - Music for the Canton School of Wohlen in nine parts (1998)
  • MattoMatto - theater music for the Lucerne minstrels in the central prison (1998)
  • Hede Mittelspan - for soprano, harp, bass clarinet, cello, flugelhorn, flute and percussion based on a text by Ueli Sager (1998)
  • "Fun2see" and "fun2hear" - the violin, the harp and the percussion (1999)
  • Translocation 1 - for clarinet, trombone, double bass and thunder sheet (1999)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame - theater music for the Compagnia Teatro Palino in Baden (1999)
  • Proprioception - for violin & percussion (2000)
  • Songs - 16 songs for pop chamber music trio (2000)
  • Bengala - theater music for the cellar theater Bremgarten AG (2002)
  • Songs - 13 songs after WH Auden for pop chamber music octet (2002)
  • Songs - songs for the band Lyn Leon (2003-2005)
  • Atmospheres 2 - Music for the Canton School of Wohlen in nine parts (2008)
  • Lessons - Music for a radio play by Hansjörg Schertenleib , DRS1 (2008)
  • Film music for "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress", about the cook Ferran Adrià , by filmmaker Gereon Wetzel (2010)
  • Roaring ore and a noisy kettledrum - music for five organs, two voices, glass and percussion (2011)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ site musig in pflegidach . Muriculture. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
  2. ^ Lyn Leon - "Glass Lounge" (2001) - Review . Allmusic. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  3. ^ Lyn Leon - "Private Pop" (2005) - Review . Allmusic. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Diethelm, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician, teacher and concert organizer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Zug , Switzerland