Wolfgang Mader (musician)
Event
Wolfgang Mader (born January 16, 1949 in Magdeburg ) is a German jazz pianist and composer .
Life
Mader was born in Magdeburg in 1949. From 1955 to 1965 he attended a polytechnic high school. For political reasons he was not admitted to the extended secondary school. After graduating from school, he began an apprenticeship. He refused military service in 1966 and subjected himself to reprisals. In 1972 he finally passed the Abitur on the second educational path. From 1976 he worked as a freelance pianist. From 1979 to 1985 he studied piano and composition at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Since 1979 he has been working as a music teacher for jazz piano at the Georg Philipp Telemann Conservatory in Magdeburg. His citizenship was revoked in 1987 due to comments and activities critical of the state.
Since 2003 he has been a lecturer for jazz education and jazz theory at the Institute of Sacred Music of Friedensau University . He also works at the Béla Bartók music school in Berlin and at the Aschersleben-Staßfurt district music school in Staßfurt . Mader has been a member of the German Association of Composers and the State Association of Music Schools of Saxony-Anhalt since 2006
His arrangement “Roumanian Folk Dance” for jazz quartet was broadcast on Hungarian television in 2001 on the occasion of Béla Bartók's 120th birthday . His musical “Freundinnen” (based on an idea and text from Anita Weichold) was performed in Schönebeck in 2005 and 2006 .
In 1995 he founded the jazz quartet Dharma with saxophonist Hajo Zimmermann ; he also leads his own trio or quartet. He has also performed as a jazz musician in the region with solo concerts, for example on the occasion of the Federal Garden Show in Magdeburg in 1999 .
Works (selection)
- Touches (1985)
- Tracks (1986)
- The Times of the Day (1987)
- The Snow Queen (1989)
- Medea's Children (1989)
- In the scent of the gardens (1995)
- Jazz-related trio (1997)
- Homage to Bartók (1998)
- Roumanian Folk Dance (2001)
- The Redentiner Easter Game (2002)
- Concerto for jazz quartet, baroque orchestra and a guest saxophone (2002)
- Sonatina for jazz band (2003)
- Sonata for cello, violin and piano (2004)
- An American in Paris (2004)
- Girlfriends (2005)
- Hight Water (2007)
- Moon worshiper (2007)
- Wolles Blues (2007)
- Emotion (2007)
- makes hay baths evening the moon (2007)
- Prayer (2007)
Web links
- Works by and about Wolfgang Mader in the catalog of the German National Library
- Web presence with a selection of compositions
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mader, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |