Our Father - Music

Markus Pirol Stockhausen Born May 2 1957 Is A German Trumpeter And Composer. He Is The Son Of Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. He Was Born In Cologne. At Age Four He Appeared As "child At Play" In His Father's Theatre Piece Originals. He Received His First Piano Lessons At Age 6 And At Age 12 He Began To Play The Trumpet. He Attended The Music Secondary School In Cologne. From 1974 He Studied At The Cologne Musikhochschule. He Began On Piano With Klaus Oldemeyer Then Classical Trumpet With R. Platt And Jazz Trumpet With Manfred Schoof Graduating In 1982. Further Studies Between 1978 And 1983 Were With P. Thibaud C. Caruso T. Stevens And C. Groth. His Jazz And Classical Débuts Were In 1974 With The Group „Key“ At The Newcomer Jazz Festival In Frankfurt And In 1976 In His Father's Sirius At The Washington Bicentennial. In 1981 He Was The Winner Of The German Music Competition. Already In 1974 Markus Began To Cooperate Intensively With His Father. The Trumpet Parts Of The Following Works Were Written For And Premièred By Him Sirius 1975-76 With Aries 1977 Thursday From Light 1978-81 Especially The Major Parts In Examination Michael's Journey Around The Earth Dragon-Fight Vision And The Thursday Farewell Saturday From Light Upper-Lip-Dance 1984 Tuesday From Light Invasion Pietà 1990-91 Europa-Gruss 1992 Michaels-Ruf Version For Four Trumpets 1978/1994 Trumpetent 1995 In Freundschaft Version For Trumpet 1998 . In Addition His Father Composed Cadenzas To The Trumpet Concertos By Haydn And Leopold Mozart For Him. In Addition To His Activities As A Soloist He Has Played In And Led Various Jazz Ensembles The Quintet "Key" 1974-79 Rainer Brüninghaus Group 1980-84 Kairos 1985-90 Aparis 1989-96 Various Formations With The Chilean Bass Player Enrique Diaz 1989- Possible Worlds 1995- . Partners Today Are Simon Stockhausen Keyboards Saxophone Enrique Díaz Arild Andersen Bass Patrice Héral Percussion The Hungarian Guitar Virtuoso Ferenc Snétberger Antoine Hervé Piano Angelo Comisso Piano And Mark Nausseef Percussion The Pianist Fabrizio Ottaviucci And In The Duo "Moving Sounds" He Performs Together With The Dutch Clarinetist Tara Bouman With Whom He Has Lived And Worked Since The Year 2000. Concerts And Festival Appearances Also For The Goethe Institute Have Taken Him Around The World. His Main Interest As A Trumpeter Is Improvised And Contemporary Music. In February 2003 He Premiered Jetstream For Trumpet And Orchestra Which Was Written For Him By Peter Eötvös Who Also Conducted The Premiere In London With The BBC Symphony Orchestra. The Classical Repertoire He Plays On Request Only. He Increasingly Performs His Own Music Also Giving Solo Performances With Intuitive Music Often In Churches. As A Composer He Has In Close Collaboration With His Brother Simon Written Several Film And Theatre Scores And Created Two Open-Air Spectacles For The 5th And 10th Anniversaries Of The Philharmonic Hall In Cologne With 70.000 And 100.000 Spectators Respectively. Recently He Composed "Choral" And "Sehnsucht" For Jazz Trio And Orchestra. New Works Have Been Commissioned And Performed By The London Sinfonietta And The Musikkollegium Winterthur. An Extensive Discography Documents His Achievements ECM AKTIVRAUM CMP ACT ENJA Stockhausen-Verlag . From 1992 Until 1998 He Has Been Under Contract With EMI Classics Which Have Produced "New Colours Of Piccolo Trumpet" 1993 "Clown" "Jubilee" 1996 And "Stockhausen Plays Stockhausen". His Last Releases Are "Markus Stockhausen "Solo I" "Close To You" "Thinking About" And "Karta" ECM . read less