Wieland Götze is a German
jazz drummer and singer-songwriter.
Life
Götze has been taking lessons at the music school since 1991. He did his military service from 1998 in the Bundeswehr training music corps in Hilden; from 2000 to 2002, he played as a regular soldier in the Heeresmusikkorps 2 in Kassel. 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 of ...
.
Since 1994, he has been active in various rock and jazz 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 and at the 38th
Montreux Jazz Festival.
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
Stephan König (born 4 October 1963) is a German composer, pianist and conductor. He is the musical director of the "LeipJAZZig-Orkester" and the chamber orchestra "artentfaltung" and is considered one of the most authoritative Jazz musicians ...
. He is a drummer in the König Trio with Stephan König on piano and
Thomas Stahr on bass; in this trio he presented the album ''Bach in Jazz'' (Rondeau, 2012) with
Martin Petzold. 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.''
''Leipziger Volkszeitung
The ''Leipziger Volkszeitung'' or ''LVZ'' (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 publication of the ...
,'' 30 March 2017 as well as
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German jazz drummers
21st-century German male singers
German male songwriters
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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