Ulli Orth

Ulli Orth is a German jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist and composer.

Live and act

Orth studied saxophone and music education at the music academies in Hanover and Hamburg . His teachers included Herb Geller , Joe Viera , Wolfgang Engstfeld , Frank Gratkowski and Vincent Herring . He also took part in various big band workshops (with Albert Mangelsdorff , Barry Guy , Dieter Glawischnig and Maria Schneider, among others ). He has been a professional musician in the Hanoverian jazz scene and beyond since 1983.

He plays in the Lower Saxony Jazz Orchestra, Experimenti Berlin , in the quartet and septet of Lars Kuklinski , in the sextet of Herbert Hellhund , with Ekkehard Jost and his own bands (the octet Ulli Orth's Quintessence , among others with Rolf Zielke , Ulli Orth Quintet, Ulli Orth ´s Adderley Memorial Band). Orth played lead alto saxophone in Roger Cicero's big band and is sideman on several of Cicero's CDs. He worked with Albert Mangelsdorff, Ralf Hübner and Dieter Glawischnig, among others, and composed for big band, hardbop and other modern jazz styles, serious music and third-stream projects, for example when he was working on baroque music by Michael Praetorius for his Quintessence octet. He suggests connections from jazz to other musical styles such as folklore and chamber music.

Orth performed at the New Music Days in Donaueschingen , at the Leverkusener Jazz Days , at the Mannheim Jazz Festival and Jazzfest Berlin (1992 with Experimenti ).

In 2000 he received a working scholarship from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, he was a multiple winner of the Jazzpodium Niedersachsen and is artistic director of the concert series Jazz Art Niedersachsen.

Web links

• Ulli Orth's Quintessence, Swinging Hamburg
• Biography on the occasion of a concert in 2012 with Johannes Klose Bechstein Centrum Hannover

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jazz Art Lower Saxony, program Heimatklänge 2012, pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.