Markus Stockhausen

The son from the famous contemporary classical composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, Markus Stockhausen is really a composer, trumpeter, improviser, conductor, and arranger. He is a fixture within the traditional and jazz moments because the 1970s and it is a prolific documenting artist. Stockhausen in fact made his documenting debut at age group four. He made an appearance on his father’s documenting of Originale as “kid at play” together with his sister Christine. He started piano lessons at six, and in 1969 began monitoring jazz with Manfred Schoof and playing trumpet. In 1975 he added the device and flügelhorn to his formal research in a second music college in Cologne. He also performed and documented using the fusion quintet Important. A 12 months later, he performed on his father’s masterworks Sternklang and Ceylon/Parrot of Passing. Stockhausen collaborated frequently with his dad over the following 25 years (the elder made up several works designed for him, including Michaels Riese). In 1980, the entire year before his last examinations, he was like a co-leader with Jasper Van’t Hof in the documenting Aqua Sansa; he also gained the 1981 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb award. Still largely unidentified, he performed in the Eurythmics’ Within the Backyard album that calendar year aswell (as did associates of Can), and examined on the Berlin Philharmonic in 1983. Stockhausen documented for several labels through the past due ’70s and early ’80s. In 1983, he was highlighted on his father’s function Donnerstag Aus Licht, along with a calendar year later, like a presented collaborator on Rainer Bruninghaus’ Continuum, his first program for ECM. The trumpeter and his sibling Simon (saxophonist, synthesist, and composer) co-founded the avant-garde music group Kairos in 1985 (it lasted until 1990 plus they by no means documented). In 1989, Stockhausen made an appearance on Ralph Towner’s celebrated Town of Eye and produced his personal ECM debut like a innovator with Cosi Lontano…Quasi Dentro. (Gary Peacock and Kairos’ drummer Zoro Babel and pianist Fabrizio Ottaviucci had been his sidemen). In 1990, he adopted this arranged with Aparis in cooperation with Simon and Jo Thönes. 2 yrs later, exactly the same music group issued Regardless of the Firefighters’ Initiatives. In 1992, ECM released an record of his father’s trumpet concerto Michaels Reise. The ensemble included Markus, Simon, and clarinetist Suzanne Stephens. The composer also supplied sound style. Between 1993 and 1999, Stockhausen documented both in traditional and jazz configurations for several brands. Among the features from the time are New Shades of Piccolo Trumpet (EMI Classics, 1993); Feasible Worlds (CMP, 1994); Sol Mestizo (Action, 1996), but still Light for Paracelsus (MA Recordings, 1996). The trumpeter performed within an improvisational jazz trio with bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Patrice Heral, and in 1999, these were became a member of in the studio room by guitarist Terje Rypdal. Their record Karta was released by ECM in 2000. Exactly the same calendar year, Stockhausen also released Single I for Aktivraum, implemented in 2001 by In Deiner Nähe. For the very first a decade of the brand new hundred years, Stockhausen aimed a concert series known as Klangvisionen, with intuitive music within the cathedral of St. Maternus in Cologne. He also continued to be active documenting like a sideman, collaborator, and his personal innovator dates inside a diverse selection of tasks. He was a presented soloist within the Tiger Dixie Band’s 2003 arranged Bix; he reunited using the Andersen and Heral trio on Joya for Enja — this time around with guitarist Ferenc Snétberger (he also slice a duet recording using the axeman for the label in 2007, entitled Channels). For Aktivraum, he documented nonDUALITY with Simon, a trumpet and string orchestra giving Symbiosis and Symphonic Colors, the second option comprising two times mixed of vanguard jazz and modern traditional music. In 2008, Aktivraum released another reunion from the Stockhausen/Andersen/Heral improv trio, this time around with Polish pianist Władysław Sendecki. This year 2010, the trumpeter documented Eternal Voyage with a global sextet that delved into Eastern traditional, Mediterranean folk musics, and daring free of charge improvisation. Universally acclaimed like a daring and bracing fresh direction, additionally it is notable since it signaled the start of Stockhausen’s operating romantic relationship with jazz pianist Florian Weber. Duo concerts implemented within their hometown of Cologne, and touring around Munich. Initially, Stockhausen was the only real composer, but because the romantic relationship grew, Weber earned tunes and started composing expressly for the duo. Though they originally caused electronics furthermore to their regular instrumentation, they ultimately evolved right into a totally acoustic device. Stockhausen continued documenting as a highlighted soloist you should definitely using Weber. On the following year or two he made an appearance on recordings by Irmin Schmidt, Stevko Busch, and Angelo Comiso. In 2013, Markus Stockhausen & the Metropole Orkest premiered by Intuition. His Wergo record, Areas & Spheres with Tag Nauseef, Tara Bouman, Stefano Scodanibbio, and Ottaviucci, made an appearance later that calendar year. The Stockhausen/Weber duo became a far more active concern. As the trumpeter/composer still caused others, the duo became his principal task. Alba, their debut studio room offering, premiered by ECM in 2016.