Ulla van Daelen

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Ulla van Daelen 2015 in the Maria Laach Abbey

Ulla van Daelen (* 1962 in Düsseldorf ; spoken ['da: lən] with Dehnungs -e ; bourgeois Ursula Gramsch ) is a German harpist and composer . From 1990 she was a soloist with the WDR radio orchestra for twenty years . Since then she has been working as a freelance musician and producer. Starting in 1993, she released twelve albums of her own, moving across different musical genres .

Life

Van Daelen began her classical training on the piano at the age of five. In the competition Young Musicians winning several prizes before they discovered with 12 years the harp for itself and as a "young student" one two years later Junior Studies at the Cologne Academy of Music began. At the age of 18 she won a harp competition organized by the Federation of German Industries in Frankfurt. After graduating from high school , she took lessons with Edward Witsenburg in The Hague and completed her studies with Helga Storck and Therese Rieu in Cologne with distinction.

Concert tours have taken her to the USA and Japan, among others. Her first engagements brought her to theaters and large opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . In 1990, Ulla van Daelen succeeded Jonny Teupens as principal harpist in the WDR radio orchestra. After twenty years, she left the orchestra in 2010 and has been working as a freelance music artist, composer and producer ever since .

Ulla van Daelen spent her childhood in Monheim am Rhein and is the younger sister of the journalist Christian Gramsch . She has lived in Cologne for a long time . Her stage name she chose for the birth name of their mother. She describes nature as the most important source of inspiration .

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In view of the relatively small and mostly old musical literature for the harp, van Daelen transferred sounds and, above all, rhythms of different musical styles to the harp while she was solo harpist in the orchestra, and describes the result as "classic folk jazz".

Today, in addition to solo concerts, she often plays in a small cast as “Ulla van Daelen Duo” or “Ulla van Daelen Trio” with Urs Fuchs as partner on bass and percussion or Klaus Mages , Leonard Gincberg or Mario Argandoña on drums . Occasionally other guest musicians join “Ulla van Daelen & friends”, such as Selçuk Şahinoğlu on clarinet and Fethi Ak on darbuka . In addition, van Daelen creates programs with literature in which reading and musical performance alternate, for example at the end of 2016 together with Nina Hoger .

Her work brought her together with the WDR Big Band Cologne and Vince Mendoza , with the Chilean band Illapu , with Wolfgang Niedecken and Manfred Krug as well as with Martina Gedeck , Ulrike Kriener and Sabine Wackernagel . She appeared several times as a soloist at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival . As a duo, for example, she was a guest in the Stadtkirche at the 12th Düsseldorf Jazz Rally 2004.

Ulla van Daelen 2004 in Lerbach Castle ; easily recognizable: the pear shape of today's resonance tops

In addition to accompanying other artists on stage , van Daelen also took part in numerous third-party productions as a studio musician (see #Participation ). As in the orchestra, she usually plays on a double-pedal harp from the Italian manufacturer Salvi (see picture).

Stations

As early as 1993 van Daelen recorded her own compositions - alternating with repertoire pieces for the harp - for her first album Ulla Gramsch - Harp solo , which was released a second time in 1997 under the new title Shalimar . Shortly after it was released, this album was named “CD of the month” on the Klassik Radio station and its piece Boliviana was broadcast for a long time in rotation. The album Rush Hour was produced as early as 1995 and released in the same year - as an audio CD a novelty on the classical music market (on the then label “New Classic Colors”).

In 1996, producer Tato Gomez hired her for a concept album of relaxation music, Sunflower, which has since been distributed worldwide. In 1999 she made several radio programs as part of the “Nachtmusik im WDR” series, to which she invited percussionist Nippy Noya , saxophonist Charlie Mariano and singer Peter Fessler .

In 2001 and 2002 van Daelen accompanied the Young Tenors' Christmas tour . In 2002 she also released her first album, Surprise, exclusively composed of her own compositions, with a trio of harp, bass and percussion.

In 2004 Ulla van Daelen performed in a duo with the jazz pianist Joachim Kühn . In the same year she embarked on a tour of Italy with her jazz composition Surprise for harp and string orchestra, arranged by the English arranger Steve Gray, together with the "Junge Kammerphilharmonie NRW".

In 2005 her jazz-oriented album Metharphosis was released, which she recorded with Peter Fessler, Charlie Mariano, harmonica virtuoso Berthold Matschat and other guest musicians. With the title track she opened the CeBIT in Hanover musically after the speech of the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder , according to her own statement the most unforgettable experience of her work to date.

2006/2007 she took over the musical accompaniment for the Hörverlag published Audiobooks charity Märchenwelten I and II with celebrity presenters and actors of the ZDF. In June 2007 the shares were of her album Surprise as choreography on the castle Wilhelmstein performed by 60 dancers.

In 2010 a concert in Wintringen on the Jakobsweg led to an encounter with the Saarbrücken author and photographer Peter Michael Lupp. This resulted in the concert reading unterWEG, which is performed nationwide at pilgrimage sites . For this program, the Saarbrücken Regional Association published the two-part sound book unterWEGs in 2012 , which consists of a book with pictures and texts by Lupp and a music CD from Van Daelens accompanying the book. In 2013 a compilation of traditional songs for Christmas followed, which she arranged for the harp and added two of her own compositions.

In 2015 van Daelen's work Harp Goes Pop was published, with which she turned to well-known pop music titles from the 1970s and 1980s as well as the more recent past and reworked them for her instrument. Most recently, she released an album with Open Harp in 2018 , which only contains her own compositions.

reception

In 1996, six years after starting her engagement in the WDR radio orchestra, ARD showed an artist portrait of Ulla van Daelen on television as part of the music fair “Klassik-Komm”. The ARD programs ARD-Morgenmagazin and Current Hour also dedicated portraits of artists to her.

In 2003 Onyx.tv broadcast a chillout music video clip that was shot with her for a slightly edited version of her title, Story, on the then-current CD Surprise. Onyx.tv also produced a clip for Ring of Kerry from the previous album Sunflower .

In 2004 she was seen with her own adaptation of the English folk song Greensleeves in "Klingenden NRW" on WDR television . In 2008 "Ulla van Daelen & friends" appeared live on the private television program Türk Show on the show Kunsttempel.

In 2009 the WDR illustrated its annual report with a double-page photograph of the harpist of his radio orchestra at the time. In 2011, Deutsche Welle used an interview with Ulla van Daelen and her album Rush Hour for its radio program "Harfenklänge".

In 2015 Deutschlandradio Kultur used an appearance photo of the Ulla van Daelen Trio at the Jazz Days Dresden 2012 as an eye-catcher for the “Jazz Harp” theme. In 2016, in a review of Harp Goes Pop , the Saarländischer Rundfunk praised the "perfection" of the implementation of the pop title on the harp and van Daelen's "complex" solo play without overdubs on "different levels and then also live" as "unbelievable".

Your productions are regularly broadcast on the WDR 4 radio program Am Rande der Nacht - Music to Dream .

Discography

In her own twelve albums so far , Ulla van Daelen has released a total of 171 tracks, of which 42 are new editions of previously published tracks, such as the complete Shalimar from 1997, some of which have been rearranged and recorded. She composed 83 of the 129 pieces of music she arranged herself. 46 pieces are foreign compositions or traditional or folk songs , some of which van Daelen rearranged for the harp. In addition to the traditional Greensleeves on Shalimar , eight folk songs are included on Zur Christmas . Unfamiliar compositions can be found on the one hand in 20 of 30 titles of the relatively "classic" early works Harp solo and Rush hour, on the other hand, their arrangement for the harp is a targeted musical concept of the penultimate album Harp goes Pop, which with seventeen exclusively solo cover versions is a popular pop title the harp takes an extraordinary path.

Studio albums

Ulla van Daelen 2015 in Grefrath with her album Harp Goes Pop, designed by Norbert Höveler

  Unless otherwise stated according to: Common authority file , if necessary with label code research.

  • 1993: Ulla Gramsch - harp solo  (Peter Hennes, Kerpen ) debut ; out of print; 1997 reissued as Shalimar
  • 1995: Rush Hour  (New Classic Colors / Fono Schallplatten, Laer ) (out of print)
  • 1996: Sunflower  (The Art of Living / Klick-Verlag, Rotkreuz ZG (Switzerland); 2001 Perleberg, Bochum )
  • 1997: Shalimar  (New Classic Colors) out of print; re-titled new edition of harp solo; Released in 2007
  • 2002: Surprise  (Sonic Market, Düsseldorf)
  • 2005: Metharphosis  (Westpark Music, Cologne)
  • 2007: Shalimar  (Van Daelen) to pieces of Rush Hour and the Traditional Greensleeves enlarged edition
  • 2011: Harp & Glory  (Van Daelen Music, Cologne)
  • 2012: unterWEGs  (Van Daelen Music, Cologne) CD for the sound book of the same name, see Contributions
  • 2013: For Christmas  (Van Daelen Music, Cologne)
  • 2015: Harp Goes Pop  (Van Daelen Music, Cologne)
  • 2018: Open Harp  (Van Daelen Music, Cologne)

Contributions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pp. 20–21 - jugend_musiziert. Brochure. (No longer available online.) Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband , archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved December 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Result of the search for "Ulla van Daelen" in the entire inventory. German National Library , accessed on November 19, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Alida Pisu: For tea with Ulla van Daelen. Interview. meinuedstadt.de, October 31, 2014, accessed on July 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c The way to your own music. Biography (self-introduction). ullavandaelen.de, accessed on November 27, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Dates. Six “Reading & Harp” programs from December 2, 2016. ullavandaelen.de, accessed on July 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Current programs 2015/16. Katharina Wackernagel (katharinawackernagel.de), accessed on December 19, 2015 .
  7. ^ Volume ABC 2004. (No longer available online.) Duesseldorfer-jazzrally.de, archived from the original on December 26, 2015 ; Retrieved December 26, 2015 .
  8. ↑ a b Annual Report 2009. (PDF) Figure on pages 30–31. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln , May 2010, accessed on September 15, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Compare with illustration of the “Premium” model “Minerva Gold” on the manufacturer's website, accessed on February 14, 2017.
  10. ↑ CD booklet ; online at http://www.ullavandaelen.de/de/seite/metharphosis/ , accessed on January 1, 2017.
  11. ↑ New release of the sound book. Saarbrücken regional association , accessed on January 4, 2016 .
  12. ↑ a b c Result of the search for idn = 102239181X. Two publications. German National Library , accessed on November 19, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Angela Wilms-Adrians: Excursions with the harp into pop music. In: Rheinische Post . December 15, 2015, accessed January 9, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Ulla van Daelen shines with pop songs. “Harp goes Pop” as a live performance. grefrather-buchhandlung.de, accessed on January 9, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Discography on Van Daelen website, accessed on October 22, 2018.
  16. ↑ The Onyx video clip Story from 2003 has been available on YouTube in low resolution since 2008 .
  17. ↑ The Onyx video clip Ring of Kerry has been on YouTube in low resolution since 2011 .
  18. ↑ Harp sounds. dw.de ( Deutsche Welle ), September 27, 2011, archived from the original on April 26, 2017 ; accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Manuela Krause: The ingenious exotic. Jazz music with the harp. March 30, 2015, accessed September 15, 2016 .
  20. ^ Roland Kunz: CD innovations. SR 2 - MusikWelt, broadcast 11:20 . Saarländischer Rundfunk , July 5, 2016, accessed on September 15, 2016 .
  21. ↑ GVL label research. Society for the exploitation of ancillary copyrights , accessed on November 19, 2016 .
  22. ↑ a b Result of the search for "Ursula Gramsch" in the entire inventory. German National Library , accessed on November 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Daelen, Ulla van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gramsch, Ulla; Gramsch, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf