Uli Partheil

Uli Partheil (2015)

Uli Partheil (* 1968 in Darmstadt ) is a German jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Live and act

Partheil attended a melodic course at the age of five ; then he received home organ lessons. At the age of 14 he switched to the piano and received lessons at the Academy for Music in his hometown. He received vocational training as a chemical laboratory assistant . This was followed by studying instrumental with Joerg Reiter and studying composition and arrangement with Bernd Rabe and Jürgen Friedrich at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim .

At local sessions, he met Jürgen Wuchner . He also played with Matthias Schubert , Janusz Stefański , Rudi Mahall , Daniel Guggenheim , Alan Jacobson, Thomas Siffling , the Palatina Swing Orchestra , the Mannheim Jazz Big Band and the United Colors of Bessungen . He expanded his trio Playtime (with Holger Nesweda on drums and Hanns Höhn on bass) into a quartet with Ack van Rooyen or Peter Back . With Playtime he recorded the album Musikgeschichten in 2004 , which performed his own settings of the texts by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. Other projects such as Music for Writers followed.

Wuchner founded the Jazz & Pop School at the Bessunger Knabenschule in the late 1990s .

Prizes and awards

In 2002 Partheil was nominated for participation in the Concours Martial Solal in Paris. In 2008 he received the Darmstadt Music Prize .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Partheil, Uli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt