Wolfgang Fuhr

Wolfgang Fuhr (* 1966 in Stetten am kalten Markt ) is a German jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

After graduating from high school at Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn, Fuhr studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and the University of Music and Dance in Cologne since 1985 . Peter Herbolzheimer brought him to the federal jazz orchestra .

Fuhr played in the Franckband ( Dufte! ) And with Werner Neumann , Volker Heinze and Roland Höppner in the quartet Double You . With his own quartet he presented his debut album under his own name in 1994. After a three-year interlude as an IT trainer with a nationwide transport company, he returned to jazz. With his brother Dietmar Fuhr and Florian Ross he formed the Trio 120 , which has released three albums since 2008.

Fuhr works as an instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer. As a composer he wrote works for saxophone and string quartet and orchestra. As a theater musician he was engaged at the theaters in Bochum and Bonn, the Düsseldorf Opera , the Grenzlandtheater Aachen and the Württembergische Landesbühne Esslingen , whose drama music he directs. Since 2008 he has been the owner of the Fuhrwerk-Musik record company in Esslingen am Neckar. He can also be heard on albums by Gee Hye Lee , Amy Antin , Matthias Petzold, Daniel Prandl and the Fuhr Brothers , as well as on the albums The Sound of Places and Earth Talk by guitarist Pedro Madaleno, which won awards in Portugal in 2005.

Fuhr is a lecturer for music production, composition and digital audio technology at the media Akademie - Hochschule Stuttgart .

Prizes and awards

Fuhr came in 2010 with the Trio 120 at the New German Jazz Prize in second place.

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personal data
SURNAME	Fuhr, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German jazz musician (saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stetten am kalten Markt