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Philipp Gerschlauer[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
Philipp Gerschlauer (born September 30, 1986) is a german microtonal jazz saxophonist. In his work he is systematically exploring microtonal playing techniques of the saxophone.
Biography[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
Gerschlauer grew up Laubach and started to play the saxophone by the age of seven and piano by the age of ten. From 2003 until 2007, while he still went to school, he studied classical Saxophone as a youth student at the music University („Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst“) in Frankfurt am Main in the class of Achim Rinke-Bachmann. From 2007-2009 he studied at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz with Saxophonists Steffen Weber and Thomas Bachmann. 2009 he moved to Berlin to study at the Jazz Institute (Universität der Künste/Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler) to study with Prof. Peter Weniger. With the help of Scholarships from the „German National Academic Foundation“ and the „German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)“ and the New York University he moved to New York City from 2012-2014. He studied at the New York University with drummer Tony Moreno, Saxophonist Chris Potter and Vibraphonist Stefon Harris. He received his Master’s degree in Jazz.
2007 he founded his Band „Besaxung“ with Felix Roßkopf, Thomas Sauerborn and Oliver Lutz (2012 replaced by Reza Askari). Besides that he worked at Festivals and CD Productions with Jack DeJohnette, David Fiuczynski, Matt Garrison, Giorgi Mikadze, Johnny Reinhard, Marc Sabat, Robin Hayward, Tolgahan Çoğulu, Jeroen Paul Thesseling, Jürgen Friedrich, Lars Seniuk, Amine Mesnaoui, Nina Rotner, Mareike Wiening, Andreas Schmidt and others. He was touring Russia, Rumania, Lithuania, Croatia, Japan, USA, Vietnam, Corea, China, Poland, Denmark, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Israel and Libanon.
Between 2004 and 2010 he was a member in the youth federal state Big Band of Hessen conducted by Wolfgang Diefenbach. In 2010 he was chosen by the National Broadcast Union to represent Germany in the „European Jazz Orchestra“. [1]
Music[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
In his music he deals with improvisational possibilities of microtonal music. [2] Exploring microtonal harmony and melodic in a jazz context are characteristic for his music. For his scales and chords he uses a microtonal keyboard instead of a regular keyboard. He is expanding microtonal possibilities of the Saxophone. [3] Based on a system that Johnny Reinhard developed he divides the octave into 128 notes on his saxophone. [4]These notes occur when using the eighth octave of the overtone series as a fundament. He has developed a fingering chart with more than 650 fingerings for the alto saxophone that produce an even greater number of possible notes per octave on the alto saxophone. [5]
Discography[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
- Besaxung (2009, with Felix Roßkopf, Oliver Lutz, Thomas Sauerborn)
- Besaxung Hotzenwald (2011, with Felix Roßkopf, Thomas Sauerborn)
- Besaxung Go! (2014, with Felix Roßkopf, Reza Askari, Thomas Sauerborn)
Recognition[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
"Philipp Gerschlauer has done incredible research and organized the many possibilities for pitch and color alternate fingerings for the saxophone. Besides the musical language potential (new scales and arpeggios), from the immediate and practical standpoint, if one just surveys Philipp's suggested alternate fingerings, the possibilities for expanding the saxophone's coloristic and expressive nuances are massive." (David Liebman)
"Uniqueness is perhaps the quality that jazz musicians strive for most relentlessly. Philipp Gerschlauer seems to have discovered this quality in an amazingly short period of time. Both his approach to the saxophone, and his writings, are loaded with originality. I have heard many musicians using microtones in their approach to playing jazz. But NEVER have I heard a system with such a defined language as Philipp has put into place." (Greg Cohen)
References[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
- ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/european-jazz-orchestra.748.de.html?dram:article_id=113027
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saV7rq0Ykho
- ↑ https://www.cassgb.org/features/post/128-note-octave/
- ↑ http://www.stereosociety.com/jpg/Johnny-Reinhard/8th-Octave-Overtone-Tuning.pdf
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGa66qHzKME