Michael Schiefel

Michael Schiefel ( born April 15, 1970 in Münster) is a jazz singer. Since 2001 Schiefel is a professor of jazz voice at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar active.

Life and work

Already during his studies at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the singer began with the expressive possibilities of loop devices and other electronics to experiment. Schiefel first solo album Invisible Loop (1997) was recognized by listeners and critics. He performs with various solo and band projects at home and abroad. ImQuintett jazzIndeed he attacked together with Jan von Klewitz, Bene Apperdannier (keyboards), Paul Kleber (bass) and Rainer Winch (drums) also songs of the Neue Deutsche Welle on ( Blue Eyes ); 2011 established this formation before a second, acclaimed by the critics Album ( east cross ). In addition to this group or the Balkan jazz quintet Batoru Schiefel also works as a soloist and with vibraphonist David Friedman, as well as with Thärichens Tentett. 2006 was " Michael Schiefel jazzIndeed " to the twelve chosen combos of German Jazz Meeting at the trade fair Jazz Ahead in Bremen and entered with the United Women 's Orchestra at the Moers Festival. In the same year he took Carla Bley (instead of Phil Minton ) for her performance in Essen from Escalator over the Hill. In December 2012, he was in Moers Improviser in Residence.

Disco printing specifications

• Invisible Loop, Traumton Records 1997
• I Do not Belong, Traumton Records 2000
• Gay, Traumton Records 2003
• Do not Touch My Animals, ACT Music & Vision 2006
• My Home Is My Tent, Traumton Records 2010

Lexical entries

• Jürgen Wölfer Jazz in Germany - The lexicon. All musicians and record companies from 1920 to today. Courts: Hannibal Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4