Aleksander Kolkowski
Aleks ( other ) Kolkowski (* 1959 in London ) is an English violinist.
Life
The son of Spanish and Russian immigrants attended the London College of Music and studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1977 violin with Clarence Mysercough and 1978 medieval and electronic music with Michael Graubart and Hugh Davies and composition with Stanley Glasser.
From 1982 to 1985 he worked as an actor and composer, after which he headed until 1987 by the London Musicians Collective. He founded in 1987, The Scoop Music Theatre Company, 1988, Harbin 's Bed and 1992, the Media Luz ensemble. In the early 1990s he organized several multi -media projects in London before he moved to Berlin in 1995.
Creation
Kolkowski is considered an important interpreter of contemporary music and art led, inter alia, by John Cage, Christian Wolff and Klaus Lang on. He also worked in the 1980s with rock musicians such as the New Wave singer Henry Badowsky and the punk rock band The Damned.
In 1983 he founded the Ubiquity Orchestra, a group that experimented with improvised music. Since 1985, he made a name for himself in the jazz field, belonging was both Tristan Honsingers strings ensemble with Louis Moholo and in Tony Oxley's Celebration Orchestra and worked with partners such as Evan Parker, Phil Minton, Bill Dixon, Vladimir Tarasov, Conny Bauer, Sussan Deyhim and Sainkho Namtchylak.
In Berlin he founded with Rudi Mahall, Axel Dörner and Matthias Bauer, the group SPOK and worked as an interpreter among others with composers Georg Katzer, Hermann Keller, Peter Ablinger, Helmut Zapf, Nadar Mashakyeki and Richard Barrett. In addition, he created performances with text, dance and film as Stage Fright ( 1994-98 ), the " hortikulturale drama" My Garden Makes Me Glad ( 1996 ) and Violin Gymnastics ( since 1998).
With Matthias Bauer and Jon Rose, he founded the trio The Kryonics in which he experimented with historical and technical apparatus such phonographs and gramophones and historical instruments such as the violin funnel (straw - violin). In 2000 he published his first solo CD Portrait in Shellac. In addition Kolkowski Aki Takases Dempa belongs to a trio.
Discography (selection)
- Map of Moods with Tristan Honsinger Quintet, 1996
- Portrait in Shellac for straw - Violin and Gramophone, 2000
- The Kryonics, 2001
- Vestige Vertical with Michael advance, Mike Walz, 2001
- Nine Fragments: Aki Takase Dempa with Toni Buck, 2002