Wolfgang Diefenbach

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Wolfgang Diefenbach (* 1951 in Wiesbaden ) is a German jazz musician ( flute , conductor ); he is the founder and artistic director of the LandesJugendJazzOrchester Hessen.

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Diefenbach studied school music , German literature and musicology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen .

In 1972 he built the youth music school in Niedernhausen , which he directed until 1983; there he initiated the first children's big band in Hessen. Since then he has worked as a freelance conductor of choirs such as the Niedernhausen women's choir Le Courage (until 2010), symphony orchestras and big bands . In 1985 he founded the LandesJugendJazzOrchester Hessen, which he has directed ever since. He has released numerous albums with the LandesJugendJazzOrchester and its support groups such as the vocal ensemble Kicks & Sticks Voices and has toured internationally. At concerts there was collaboration with international soloists such as Bill Ramsey , Randy Brecker , Dee Dee Bridgewater and Dianne Reeves ; He also achieved that jazz composers and arrangers such as Bill Holman , John Clayton , Bob Mintzer , Bill Dobbins , Bob Florence , Maria Schneider , Michael Mossman , Kenny Napper , Manny Albam , Jerry van Rooyen or Darmon Meader have written especially for the formations. In 1990 he also initiated the Hessian state competition Jugend jazzt , which he also directs.

Diefenbach received the German Record Critics' Prize in 1990 for the first CD of the State Youth Jazz Orchestra Hessen, Kicks and Sticks . In 2008 he was awarded the Hessian Culture Prize.

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SURNAME Diefenbach, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (flute, conductor)
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden