Tobias Seyb

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Tobias Seyb (born May 5, 1961 in Besigheim ) is a German musician and composer.

Seyb's main instruments are guitar and violin. Musically he moves across the board in the areas of classical music, rock / pop / jazz and world music / folk. As a guitarist, Seyb is influenced by modern jazz / blues musicians such as Larry Carlton , Scott Henderson and Robben Ford .

Even before graduating from high school, he was a composition student with Hans Georg Pflüger in Bietigheim-Bissingen . From 1984 he studied musicology and German studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim , choir and orchestra conducting with Peter Braschkat and violin with Klaus Assmann.

With Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen and Richard Geppert he composed the music theater piece Der kleine Mensch . In 1986 the commissioned composition of the oratorio Die Erde for large orchestra, choir, soloists, band was created together with Richard Geppert and Klaus-Dieter Kienzle (text by Birgit Kley ), which was also published on sound storage by Hammer Musik. He also composed the rock oratorio Moses with Geppert , and numerous other songs and compositions followed (1991 The Songs Of Distant Earth based on a novel by Arthur C. Clarke ).

In addition, he has produced numerous CDs on his own label, including classical music, most recently song cycles Winterreise , Die Schöne Müllerin and Dichterliebe with Sakellari / Gutensohn.

Since the beginning of his career he has worked in numerous bands and ensembles. At the moment he mainly plays with his band Seyb & Friends. As a violinist he plays Irish folk as well as classical and rock . A regularly carried out project is the "SuperSession", in which besides his band always selected guest musicians play.

Works (selection)

  • A Little Man (music theater, with Richard Geppert and Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen)
  • Moses (rock oratorio, with Richard Geppert)
  • Die Erde (oratorio for choir and orchestra, with Richard Geppert, Klaus-Dieter Kienzle and Birgit Kley), published by Hammer Music Stuttgart
  • The Songs Of Distant Earth
  • Things Are Not Always What They Seem
  • Nitetrain (for string quartet)

CD productions (selection)

(All published by think different! Productions, Bietigheim-Bissingen / Kirchheim)

  • Silence (Peter Traa / Tobias Seyb) (td 0001-3)

Three song cycles with Sakellari / Gutensohn:

Pop / Jazz:

  • String wind (string wind) (td 0002-3)
  • Decision (Decision) (td 0006-3)
  • Bit 2 Hot ( Clemens Orth Trio) (td 009-3)

Co-production with Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart:

  • Ricardas Kabelis: CCC u. a. (td 0005-3)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Seyb, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Besigheim