Wieland Götze is a German

jazz drummer Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion (predominantly the drum kit, which includes a variety of drums and cymbals) in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques an ...

and singer-songwriter.

Biography

Götze has been taking lessons at the music school since 1991. He did his

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from 1998 in the Bundeswehr training music corps in

Hilden Hilden () is a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is situated in the Mettmann (district), District of Mettmann, west of Solingen and east of Düsseldorf on the right side of the Rhine. It is a middle sized industrial town ...

; from 2000 to 2002, he played as a regular soldier in the Heeresmusikkorps 2 in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...

. Between 2002 and 2006, he studied at the

Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany. The Hochschule Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding o ...

. Since 1994, he has been active in various

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and

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

bands. He took lessons with

Jo Thönes Jo Thönes (born 28 November 1958) is a German percussionist, Jazz drummer and composer. Life Born in Leverkusen, Thönes began playing the drums at the age of thirteen. In 1976 and 1977, he had lessons with Christoph Caskel at the in Cologne, ...

, and Werner Schmitt, among others. Götze played in various musical productions such as Mephisto (Weimar 2003), Chess (Nordhausen 2007), West Side Story (Meiningen 2009 & Göttingen 2011/12), Fame (Gera & Altenburg) and On the Town (Nordhausen). Since 2003, he was the drummer of the Leipzig BigBand; with this formation he played various concerts with (among others)

Nina Hagen Catharina "Nina" Hagen (; born 11 March 1955) is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rise to prominence during the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is ...

and at the 38th

Montreux Jazz Festival The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annu ...

. From 2005 Götze played at ''Classic meets Rock'' with the

Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach The Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach is a symphony orchestra in the city of Gotha. The orchestra was formed in 2017 through the merger of the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha with the . History Gotha State Orchestra Ever since Ernest I, ...

and the Band-Vital from Erfurt. Götze works in the "LeipJAZZig Orkester" under the direction of Stephan König. He is a drummer in the König Trio with Stephan König on piano and

Thomas Stahr Thomas Stahr is a German Bass (instrument), bassist and composer, "who demonstrates expertise in both classical and jazz". Life and career Stahr first started playing electric bass at the age of 14 and shortly afterwards double bass. He studied ...

on bass; in this trio he presented the album ''Bach in Jazz'' (Rondeau, 2012) with

Martin Petzold Martin Petzold (25 June 1955 – 19 April 2023) was a German classical tenor who performed internationally in opera and concert. He was for decades a member of the Leipzig Opera, performing more than 80 roles such as Pedrillo in Mozart's ''Die ...

. Furthermore, he acts in the gala band "Chris Genteman Group". In 2017, Götze (as singer, guitarist and pianist) presented his album ''Travelling Songs'', released on with his own compositions, which was created in the duo ''Colourwood'' in collaboration with guitarist Christian Hildebrandt.''Gemütlich wie die Couch: Das Duo Colourwood feiert sein Debütalbum.''
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Leipziger Volkszeitung The ''Leipziger Volkszeitung'' or ''LVZ'' (German language, German for ''Leipzig People's Newspaper'') is a daily regional newspaper in Leipzig and western Saxony, Germany. First published on 1 October 1894, the LVZ was formerly an important pu ...

,'' 30 March 2017 as well as

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