Michael Hornstein

Michael Hornstein ( born September 29 1962 in Konstanz ) is a German saxophonist, composer and music producer.

Life and work

Hornstein began at the age of ten years playing the piano, with 14 he switched to alto saxophone. Initially self-taught under the influence of Charlie Parker, he later studied music at the Musikhochschule in Graz. In 1983, Hornstein a scholarship and went to the Berklee College of Music. He first worked in the field of Creative Jazz, among others, Fred Braceful, Sunny Murray, Albert Mangelsdorff, Udo Lindenberg, Hector Martignon, Al Porcino, Blank & Jones, Bob Dorough, Billy Hart, Gary Peacock and Peter Bockius.

Since the early 1990s, he explores in a variety of live and studio projects from the bandwidth between jazz, contemporary music concertante and electronic club culture. Chert is represented as a saxophonist, composer and music producer with tracks Carma and Boom Boom on two issues of Cafe del Mar.

Since 1998, he presented for the Goethe -Institut his music in Mexico, Cuba, Greece, Spain, Serbia, Bosnia and Georgia. As a composer and producer - also electronic music - he is responsible for a series of commissioned works for ARTE or ARD, and experimental short films and art videos responsible. More concert tours so far taken him to the USA, Switzerland, France, Italy, Greece, Austria, Colombia, Thailand, and China. In recent years he has also performed as a duo with keyboardist Matthias Bublath and in a trio or quartet with Walter Lang, Walter Bittner and Manolo Diaz.

In addition to his concert activities Hornstein has been teaching since the 1980s and are also workshops on tour for the Goethe Institute. In 2003 he was appointed as a visiting professor at the University of Javeriana in Bogotá. Since 2004 he works as a producer for international folklore with emphasis on Latin America and produced in many Latin American countries, order music, about 2008 in Cuba with members of the Buena Vista Social Club.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Slow Blue ( Enja, 1993)
  • Dry Red ( Edition Collage, 1994)
  • Innocent Green ( Enja, 1996)
  • The Real Cat (1999)
  • Jazz on Mars ( 2001)
  • Danza Mestiza ( Milenium, Colombia, 2003)
  • Draught ( Leo Records, 2005)
  • Westend ( CSM, Austria, 2006)
  • Let It Go (Spice Records, 2006)
  • Summertime Opium (Spice Records, 2009)
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