Till Brönner

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Till Brönner (2008)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Blue Eyed Soul
  DE 34 03/18/2002 (10 weeks)
That summer
  DE 17th 06/21/2004 (14 weeks)
Oceana
  DE 13 05/12/2006 (19 weeks)
The Christmas Album
  DE 18th 11/30/2007 (5 weeks)
Rio
  DE 8th 10/03/2008 (16 weeks)
  AT 64 10/03/2008 (1 week)
At the end of the day
  DE 9 October 29, 2010 (12 weeks)
  AT 17th October 29, 2010 (7 weeks)
  CH 61 10/31/2010 (2 weeks)
Till Brönner
  DE 21st 12/14/2012 (7 weeks)
The Movie Album
  DE 24 10/10/2014 (8 weeks)
Till Brönner (The Good Life)
  DE 6th 09/09/2016 (12 weeks)
  AT 34 09/16/2016 (3 weeks)
  CH 50 09/11/2016 (1 week)
Nightfall (with Dieter Ilg )
  DE 11 02/02/2018 (10 weeks)
  AT 25th 02/09/2018 (2 weeks)
  CH 32 04/02/2018 (2 weeks)
Singles
Summer breeze
  DE 73 October 29, 2010 (2 weeks)

Till Brönner (born May 6, 1971 in Viersen ) is a German trumpeter , composer , professor of jazz trumpet and photographer .

Career

Till Brönner (2016)

Born in Viersen on the Lower Rhine and raised for the first few years, the family went to Rome for five years, where Brönner also attended kindergarten. In 1990 he graduated from the Jesuit School Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn - Bad Godesberg . Already here he was noticed by his talent with various school orchestras: classical school orchestra, AKO Big Band or sacro-pop (together with Stefan Raab ). He studied jazz trumpet at the Cologne University of Music . His most important teachers include Malte Burba and the American jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew . In 1991 Brönner became a member of the RIAS Big Band , at that time still RIAS Dance Orchestra under Horst Jankowski . His first own album Generations of Jazz with Ray Brown , Jeff Hamilton, Frank Chastenier and Grégoire Peters was released in 1993. He received the German Record Critics' Prize and the German Record Industry Prize . He subsequently played with international jazz greats such as Dave Brubeck , Tony Bennett , Mark Murphy , James Moody , Monty Alexander , Nils Landgren as well as Klaus Doldinger and Joe Sample and went on tour with soul singer Joy Denalane in 2003 . He also produced and composed the album 17 Millimeter (1999) for Hildegard Knef and wrote soundtracks for Jazz Seen (2001) and Hell Tour (2004) by Pepe Danquart .

His studio album Oceana, recorded in Los Angeles, was released in late April 2006 . On the CD produced by Larry Klein , Madeleine Peyroux and singer Carla Bruni are among the guest stars.

In 2006 he produced the jazz album Watch What Happens for the baritone Thomas Quasthoff , in which he also participated as a trumpeter. The album won the European music award Echo

From 2004 to March 2010 he played and moderated in the Talkin 'Jazz series of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn with his band and selected guests, including Paul Kuhn, Mousse T., Stefan Raab, Anke Engelke, Thomas Quasthoff, Nana Mouskouri and many more. On March 5, 2010, Peter Kraus was his last guest in the series. In 2009 he played the flugelhorn parts on the album Touch by the famous Swiss electronic music duo Yello as one of the guest musicians .

In 2009 Brönner was appointed professor at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . Since the winter semester 2009/2010 he has been teaching there with Malte Burba in the fields of jazz, rock and pop.

From August to November 2010, Brönner was a jury member and mentor together with Sarah Connor and George Glueck in the casting show X Factor , which was broadcast on RTL and VOX . He was assigned the category of those aged 25 and over and won the competition with his candidate Edita Abdieski . In the second season, which started on August 30, 2011, he was again a member of the jury and mentor and again received the category of 25 and over. On December 6, 2011, Brönner won the show again with his candidate David Pfeffer . He justified his exit from the VOX talent show with his main job as a jazz musician, which again deserves his undivided attention.

Since 2010 Brönner has also been working increasingly as a photographer . His portraits, most of which he photographs with a Leica “M” camera, appeared in the photo book Faces of Talent (teNeues Verlag) at the end of 2014 . Various gallery and museum exhibitions followed, and in 2019 a commissioned work by the Essen Brost Foundation , for which Brönner portrayed the Ruhr area for a year , attracted particular attention . The exhibition took place in the Duisburg Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art under the title "Melting Pott". An art book of the same name was published by Wienand-Verlag. Brönner's photographic works are represented in various art collections, including the Wemhöhner collection.

In April 2016, Till Brönner was invited to the White House at the invitation of US President Barack Obama to be the only jazz artist from German-speaking countries to celebrate UNESCO's International Jazz Day (April 30) with a concert with 45 international colleagues . The all-star ensemble included Aretha Franklin , Morgan Freeman , Herbie Hancock , Sting , Pat Metheny , Diana Krall , Marcus Miller , Wayne Shorter , Chick Corea , John McLaughlin , Al Jarreau and Dianne Reeves , among others .

In May 2016, after more than 15 years with the Universal record label, Brönner signed an international contract with the Sony Masterworks New York label.

Brönner has a residence in Berlin-Charlottenburg and since 2013 a second residence in Los Angeles . He is the father of a son.

Awards

Discography (selection)

Albums

Video albums

  • 2005: A Night in Berlin (Gold, Jazz Award 2006)

Books

  • Till Brönner, Claudius Seidl: Talking Jazz. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04167-5 .
  • Till Brönner: Faces of Talent. teNeues Verlag, Kempen 2014, ISBN 978-3-832-79865-9 .
  • Guest speaker at the audio book But Beautiful: a book about jazz by Geoff Dyer .
  • Walter Smerling, Eva Müller-Remmert (eds.): Till Brönner. Melting pot. Wienand, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-86832-538-6 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name by the Foundation for Art and Culture e.V., Bonn, and the Brost Foundation in the Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art MKM, Duisburg).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Sabrina Pfeiffer: Till Brönner - A portrait. 3Sat , 2018, archived from the original on June 30, 2018 ; accessed on June 30, 2018 .
  3. ^ DPA: Music: Till Brönner becomes professor in Dresden. In: Focus Online . March 26, 2009, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Peter Kümmel: The festival. In: The time . No. 20/2016 ( zeit.de [May 4, 2016, accessed November 18, 2019]).
  5. ↑ (dpa): "As Time Goes By": Till Brönner plays film music. (No longer available online.) In: Berliner Zeitung. September 29, 2014, archived from the original on December 14, 2014 ; accessed on November 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Brönner Bossa Nova. Interview on freundin.de .
  7. ↑ Villa Massimo | Till Brönner. In: villamassimo.de. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Mr. M's Jazz Award 2014 ( Memento from September 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: mister-ms.de, accessed on November 18, 2019.
  9. ↑ Award of the State Order of Merit. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, May 14, 2019, accessed on May 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE
personal data
SURNAME Brönner, Till
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trumpeter, singer, composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Viersen