Simon Stockhausen was born on the 5th of June 1967 near Cologne. At the age of five he commenced his musical education (piano, saxophone, drums, synthesizer, composition) and began performing in his father..s works at the age of 12. After his final exams 1986 he started touring the world with the Stockhausen ensemble and also co-produced the electronic music for two of the operas by his father Karlheinz. In 1996 their collaboration stopped.
The successful collaboration with his brother Markus Stockhausen over the last 20 years in the field of jazz and improvised music generated numerous CD-releases on record labels like ECM, EMI, LARGO, two compositions for the Cologne philharmonic, soundtracks for film- and theatreproductions as well as concerts throughout the world.
In 2005 they published their last album nonDUALITY.
Simon has also composed music for the Ensemble Modern Point of no Return 1993, Berliner Geschichten 1999, for the Musikfabrik NRW Parametrics 1993, the Venice Biennale 1993, the IMD in Darmstadt Brandnächte 1996 and the WDR Bigband - JUBILEE 1996 and INNER CIRCLES 1997 and wrote chamber music for various ensembles.
Since 1998 Simon has composed and arranged music for many german theatres, the Berliner Ensemble, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Staatstheater Mainz, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Schauspiel Köln and worked with directors like Peter Palitzsch and Burkhard Kosminski. He also did musical recitals with Hannah Shygullah (KRONOS KAIROS)
and David Bennent (Gilgamesch-Epos 2000).
Besides the compositional work he has performed numerous concerts as a keyboard and saxophone player in various constellations, also with the WDR Bigband in Lalo Shifrin..s piece ESPERANTO (2000) and James Morrison, with whom he founded the Band ON THE EDGE in 2003.
Simon has also written many filmscores for documentary, fiction and short films and worked together with the israelian filmmaker Amos Gitai. He frequently has encounters with performance-artists, most recently with Lucy&Jorge Orta in their Performance-cycle OPERA.tion Life Nexus and the persian artist Misha Bolourie in his light-installation
1.000.000 lights for Berlin
Since 2002/03 he has also performed contemporary music with the Sharoun-Ensemble and the Berlin philharmonic orchestra playing music by Heiner Goebbels (Surrogate Cities/from a diary) and Peter Eötvös.
In 2004 he founded the Band ROYCE together with the saxophone player Christian Weidner and recorded an album which was released in 2006.
I had visited your page before, like many of your compositions. They are an interesting influence on me. Thank you for your friendship, and all the best! Silvio
Hi Simon I just got the Trip To Asia soundtrack CD. LOVING IT! Really special moments.
Had to laugh - I put the remix album in first by mistake thinking it was yours and thought - strange...Simon's gone all dancey...til I realised my mistake. The remix album is fun but the real thing is special.
This is a great piece of work - the way the sounds and the composed music blend - magical - I'm so going to enjoy discovering this more with repeated plays in the coming weeks.
Hello Simon. Great music. Your Father kindly contributed a quote for my debut album THE FUTILITY ROOM. Keep up the great work! Best wishes from Liverpool. Joseph.
.Storm. ist wohl etwas untertrieben..für mich entwickelt sich da eine regelrechte Lawine und die knapp 9 Minuten sind sprichwörtlich wie im Flug vorbei. Dafür spende ich dir orkanartigen Applaus. Big Respect.
.Electronism. erinnert mich fetzigerweise an ein Spiel aus meiner Kindheit...wir rieben uns so lange an irgendwelchen Plastikgeländern oder unseren zeitgemäßen Anziehsachen, bis wir "funkten", die Haare zu Berge standen oder wir einen "Schlag" bekamen...
DANKE, das ist großartig, was du zauberst. Best wishes and warmest Regards from EastGermany. Kathrin and Hilmar
Every time that we listen or write music... play an instrument... dance... act in a play... or work in some audio/image/video engineering process... Something is healing inside...
When we share it with friends... Something is healing all over...
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