As a trumpet soloist, improviser and composer of jazz, Markus Stockhausen feels as much at home in contemporary and classical music, and ranks among one of the most eclectic musicians of our time. Born in Cologne in 1957, he began to play the piano at the age of six. From 1975 onwards he studied piano and trumpet at the Cologne Music Academy. In 1981, one year before his concert exam, he won the prize at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (German Music Competition). Since then he has been giving concerts regularly as a soloist, amongst which at numerous world premieres, such as Jet Stream, a trumpet concert composed for him in 2002, by Peter Eötvös with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London – and is regularly a guest at renowned international music festivals. For a long time he worked intensively with his father, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who wrote several pieces for him. He was on the stage as a soloist in his father's music drama pieces of LIGHT in, amongst other places, the Scala in Milan, London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, and the Leipzig Opera.
Markus Stockhausen has also emerged as a member and leader of various jazz formations. He played regularly with the trio MAP with Arild Andersen and Patrice Héral for example, as a duo with the guitarist Ferenc Snétberger, and recently as a trio with Angelo Comisso and Christian Thomé. Together with his brother Simon he brought several large musical projects into being, most recently the CD nonDuality, on which instrumental and electronic sounds coincide. He regularly plays concerts as the duo Moving Sounds with his wife, the clarinettist Tara Bouman.
In February 2002, he arranged his own series of concerts with Rolf Zavelberg for intuitive music in the St. Maternus church in Cologne, where he has been performing on a monthly basis. Markus Stockhausen can also look back on a number of successes as a composer. In the early part of 2004 three new pieces by him were simultaneously premiered; Ascent and Pause for trumpet and string orchestra with the Orchestra d'Archi Italiana, Portrait for Tara for basset horn and ensemble with Tara Bouman and the London Sinfonietta, as well as Sunrise for the jazz trio MAP with the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra. In 2005 he wrote Any Way for the Cheltenham Festival Players.
Numerous CD releases have documented Markus Stockhausen's accomplishments. He was recently awarded the WDR Jazz Prize for Best Improviser. He last took part in the concert for KölnMusik with Ferenc Snétberger and the Franz Liszt Orchestra in October 2005.
For more information visit: www.markusstockhausen.com
CDs mit Markus Stockhausen (Click for more info)
BRANDNEW RELEASES!
New in 2009
SYMPHONIC COLOURS for Jazztrio and symphonic Orchestra / Clarinet and chamber orchstra / Big Band and chamber orchestra with Arild Andersen, Patrice Héral, Markus Stockhausen, Tara Bouman, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, Camerata Bern and Swiss Jaz Orchestra
New in 2008
SYMBIOSIS - works of Markus Stockhausen - Markus Stockhausen, Tara Bouman & Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein
New in 2008
Electric Treasures with Vladyslav Sendecki, Patrice Héral and Arild Andersen. Live recording from September 2007
New in 2008
Abendglühen - Markus Stockhausen and Trombone Choirs “Pure joy, which has become music” Musenblätter, 09/2008 (in German)
Soviet Jazz' spectacular christmas special is nearing completion! All four advent songs are up and available on our page, and if you stick around for christmas eve you'll be treated to the grande finale featuring a special guest vocalist!
auch Du kommst in einer Episode meines Erinnerungsbuchs "Die Reise des sächsischen Trommlers" ( ISBN 978-3-8391-3601-0 ) in einer der kurzweiligen Geschichten vor. Falls Du also Interesse hast, so schau doch einfach mal rein!
It's Christmas time again. This year Santa brings JAZZ FOR ALL!
The yearly Soviet Jazz Christmas Extravaganza is more or less assuming the form of a tradition. Once again we will release a new song each sunday of advent leading up to the inevitable conclusion on christmas eve.
A new trippy release from L'Orastrana finally available for download! Eleven psychedelic tracks in a triple net-album freely inspired by the book "Le città invisibili" by Italo Calvino. You can download it for free and legally from orastrana.it
Catalogue number: [ora004] Artist: L'Orastrana Album title: Città invisibili
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Hi Markus, welcome in my page and thanks for your add. I know you play with Angelo Comisso. I sang with him many yers ago. Do you have his address???? I would like to talk with him.......Greet him to me. Graziella.
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