Thomas Walter Maria

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Thomas Walter Maria at a concert with his band in Berlin-Lichtenrade

Thomas Walter Maria (* 1971 ) is a German saxophonist, composer, arranger and singer.

Live and act

Maria studied music at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig and continued his studies from 1997 to 1998 at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1998 he released a live CD with The Brazilian Groove Connection . He has been working in Berlin since 1999, where he plays in the Berlin Jazz Orchestra and Papa Binne's Jazz Band , among others . He was also heard in the Canary Islands with Vrandán and Alexander Sputh . In 2014 he founded his own formation Thomas Walter Maria & Kapelle . He also works as a lecturer for saxophone / clarinet / flute at the Georg Philipp Telemann Conservatory in Magdeburg. He is also the initiator and artistic director of the “Werder klingt” music festival in Werder (Havel), which will celebrate its premiere in March 2017.

Discography

  • The Brazilian Groove Connection: Solaris Live (Noiseworks Records 1998)
  • Trio Cupuacu (219 Records 2003)
  • Agua de Coco: Madalena (2007)
  • Thomas Walter Maria & Kapelle: New Swing (2014)
  • Thomas Walter Maria & Kapelle: Timeless (2019)
  • Dubone & Jazz For Funk: Mr. Hardgroover (1994)
  • Hardness Four: Jazz Young Talent Award (1996)
  • State Youth Jazz Orchestra Saxony: Live (1996)
  • Trinity: A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Sunrise 1998)
  • Jay Jay BeCe: How Rook (1999)
  • Trinity: The Exiting Life (2000)
  • Vrandán: El danzongo magico (2000)
  • Alexander Sputh Quartet: A Cielo abierto (2001)
  • Marc Secara & The Berlin Jazz Orchestra: Take Off (2003) 
  • Youth Jazz Orchestra Saxony: 10 years anniversary CD (2003)
  • Ronaldo Folegatti : Jamming! (April 2005)
  • Albi's Corner: Off the Hook (Esox 2007)
  • Marc Secara & The Berlin Jazz Orchestra: You're Everything  (2007)
  • LuaMar: Azul (Timba 2009)
  • Vaitano: Bahia Berlin (Duck Time Records 2010)
  • The Jive Sharks: Mouseme (2011)
  • Marc Secara Secara Meets Kaempfert (Silver Spot Records / Edel 2011)
  • Fischerstraße Chapel: The Song of Wachtelberg (2011) 
  • Papa Binnes Jazzband: 50 years & a couple of crushed people ( Buschfunk 2011) 
  • The Berlin Jazz Orchestra & Special Guests: Strangers in the Night  (Live-DVD 2012)
  • Vivian Kanner : Glik (Single, 2015)
  • Christoph Reuter : Between Night and Morning (Suninga 2016)
on compilations
  • Carnival of Cultures CD series: Volume 4 (2003)
  • Trio Cupuacu: Jazz & Blues Award Berlin (2005)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Admission information (Tadjabo)
  2. ↑ Meeting (acoustic guitar)
  3. ↑ Lutz Eikelmann Review Swinging Hamburg Journal No. 54 (3rd quarter 2015)
  4. ↑ Saxon fun: Ten years of Saxony's youth jazz orchestra
  5. ↑ Between night and morning
personal data
SURNAME Maria, Thomas Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German saxophonist, composer, arranger and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971