Markus Stockhausen (born May 2, 1957) is a German trumpeter and composer. His recordings and performances have typically alternated between jazz and chamber or opera music, the latter often in collaboration with his father, composer

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

Biography

Born in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

, West Germany, he is the son of composer

. At age four he appeared as "child at play" in his father's theatre piece ''

Originale ''Originale'' (Originals, or "Real Characters"), musical theatre with '' Kontakte'', is a music theatre work by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in collaboration with the artist Mary Bauermeister. It was first performed in 1961 ...

''. He received his first piano lessons at age six, and at age twelve he began to play the trumpet. He attended the music secondary school in Cologne. Concerts and festival appearances, also for the

Goethe Institute The Goethe-Institut (, GI, en, Goethe Institute) is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and ...

, have taken him around the world. In November 2008 he gave the first performance of ''Freedom Variations'', a composition for trumpet and chamber ensemble written by Italian composer

Lorenzo Ferrero Lorenzo Ferrero (; born 1951) is an Italian composer, librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and has written over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral ...

. The Markus Stockhausen Group (with Jeroen van Vliet p, Christian Thomé dr, Jörg Brinkmann cello) released on 27 August 2021 the album ''Tales''.

Discography

* ''Aparis'' ( ECM, 1990) * ''Cosi Lontano...Quasi Dentro'' (ECM, 1989) * ''Köln Musik Fantasy'' (1991) * ''Stockhausen: Michaels Reise'' (ECM, 1992) * ''Despite the Fire-Fighters' Efforts...'' (Polygram/ECM/Universal, 1993) * ''New Colours of Piccolo Trumpet'' (

EMI Classics EMI Classics was a record label founded by Thorn EMI in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally distributed classical music releases. After Thorn EMI demerged in 1996, its recorded musi ...

, 1993) * ''Stockhausen: Oberlippentanz; Ave; Tierkreis (Trio-Version)'' (Stockhausen-Verlag, 1993) * ''Stockhausen: Aries; Klavierstück XIII'' (Stockhausen-Verlag, 1994) * ''Clown'' (EMI, 1995) * ''Possible Worlds'' (CMP, 1995) * ''Cologne Music Fantasy'' (Largo, 1996) * ''Sol Mestizo'' ( ACT, 1996) * ''Markus Stockhausen Plays Karlheinz Stockhausen'' (EMI Classics, 1998) * ''Solo I'' (Aktivraum, 2000) * ''Still Light'' (MA, 2000) * ''In Deiner Nahe'' (aka ''Close to You'') (Aktivraum, 2001) * ''Karta'' (ECM, 2001) * ''Joyosa'' (Enja, 2002) * ''Lichtblick: Prima, Altrove...'' (Aktivraum, 2004) * ''Nonduality'' (Aktivraum, 2004) * ''Thinking About'' (Aktivraum, 2004) * ''Mozart, La Nuit Jazz 'n' Groove'' (

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, 2005) * ''Es War Einmal...Instanti Infiniti'' (Aktivraum, 2007) * ''Streams'' (

Enja Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971. The label's first release was by Mal Waldron, and early releases included European and Ja ...

, 2007) * ''Abendglühen'' (Aktivraum, 2008) * ''Electric Treasures: Live in Bonn'' (Aktivraum, 2008) * ''

No Matter ''No Matter'' is a collaborative album by Kudsi Erguner, Bill Laswell, Mark Nauseef and Markus Stockhausen. It was released on August 19, 2008 by Metastation. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''No Matter'' liner notes. ;Musicians *K ...

'' (Metastation, 2008) * ''Symbiosis: Werke von Markus Stockhausen für Klarinette und Trompete und Streichorchester'' (Aktivraum, 2008) * ''Other Presences'' (

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, 2008) * ''Symphonic Colours'' (2009) * ''Spaces & Spheres: Intuitive Music'' (

Wergo WERGO is a German record label focusing on contemporary classical music. It was founded in 1962 by German art historian and music publisher (1903–1975) and the musicologist Helmut Kirchmeyer. Their first release, filed under "WER 60001", was S ...

, 2013) * ''Markus Stockhausen and the Metropole Orkest'' (Intuition, 2013) * ''Atlas'' (2015) * ''Alba'' (ECM/Universal, 2016) * ''Hamdelaneh - Intimate dialogues (with Alireza Mortazavi)'' (Dark Companion, 2019) * Markus Stockhausen Group: ''Tales'' (o-tone music, 2021)

As sideman

With

Rainer Brüninghaus Rainer Brüninghaus (born 21 November 1949) is a German jazz pianist, composer and university teacher. Career He was born in Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, Germany. Rainer Brüninghaus was educated in classical piano, playing from the age of nine, ...

* ''

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'' (ECM, 1983) With

Ralph Towner Ralph Towner (born March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet and French horn. Biography Towner was born i ...

* ''

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* ''Stranger at home'' (Incipit/Egea, 2018)

References

Sources

*Sanz, Pablo (2006). "Markus Stockhausen, una mirada fuera de plano". ''Scherzo: Revista de música'' 21, no. 210 (July–August): 136–37. *Tarr, Edward H. (2001). "Stockhausen, Markus". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by

Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was publ ...

and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

External links

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