Winfried Holzenkamp

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Winfried Holzenkamp (* 1970 ) is a German double bass player and tango musician.

Holzenkamp began playing the double bass at the age of seventeen and was initially a member of various youth orchestras. He received engagements at the opera houses of Mönchengladbach and Cologne, made radio recordings for WDR and went on concert tours with the Bonn Classical Philharmonic . At the Cologne University of Music and Dance he studied classical double bass with Veit-Peter Schüssler until 2001 . He also took lessons from the jazz bassist Dieter Manderscheid , played in a klezmer group and founded a quartet for oriental music ( Döner four one ) with Murat Coskun .

With a DAAD scholarship , he went to Buenos Aires for a year after completing his concert exam, where he studied at the Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda . He became a member of the Orquesta Escuela de Tango led by Emilio Balcarce , with whom he performed at the Tango Festival 2004 with the soloist Gustavo Beytelmann at the Teatro Colón and took private lessons with Hector Console , Oscar Giunta , Alcides Rossi , Igancio Varchausky , Daniel Buono and Horacio Carbarcos .

After his return from Argentina, Holzenkamp played in various tango formations, such as the Silencio Tango Orquesta Tipica , the Orquesta Tipica Sabor a Tango by Peter Reil , in a duo with Marcelo Nisinman and in Michael Zisman's trio and his quintet 676 nuevo tango .

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SURNAME Holzenkamp, ​​Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German double bass player and tango musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1970