Torsten de Winkel
Torsten de Winkel ( born January 6, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main; actually Torsten angle ) is a German musician and composer in jazz and world music, improvisation theorists and Neurophilosopher. He plays in addition to various acoustic and electric guitars and electric sitar, and keyboards and percussion.
Biography
Torsten angle first learned to play the charango was ten years old in La Paz, Bolivia. Based on this, he taught himself the basics of guitar playing and jazz improvisation itself, which he in Frankfurt professionalized later at a jazz course of the Hoch Conservatory under Christof Lauer. After leaving school with gifted recommendation from the Study Foundation of the German people followed in 1983 his first appearance at the German Jazz Festival Frankfurt, to which it invited Alphonse Mouzon to recordings to Los Angeles.
The artist name De angle arose because it is in Frankfurt with preference in Hessian dialect with "Oh, here comes de ' angle! " welcomed.
In 1985, his much-discussed debut LP Master Touch (FAZ: "Coup of the German jazz history " ), with the de Winkel anticipated the later has become a matter of course cooperation of young German jazz musicians with leading U.S. stylist. During this time, a still ongoing and documented on many CDs collaboration with bassist Hellmut Hattler, whose group Kraan had previously dissolved began.
De Winkel studied as a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston (summa cum laude). With his move to the USA, where he recorded also philosophical and psychological studies, 1989, from the deWinkelHattler project with Joo Kraus, the duo HattlerKraus ( " Tab Two "). De angle can be heard on all nine CDs in this formation as a guitarist, and later as an e- sitarist. During the study period de Winkel worked with both Steve Smith's Vital Information ( with whom he as a guitarist - in succession to Mike Stern and Frank Gambale - and composer grossed two CDs) as well as with Joe Zawinul, Matt Garrison, Scott Kinsey, and with the Pat Metheny Group.
In the 90s, developed de Winkel from dissatisfaction with the most purely theoretical approach scales in jazz and improvisation teaching an alternative teaching method that intuition into account the results of basic research in the field of educational psychology and neuroscience, the term training. He held courses starting at various institutions, including the Hamburg Conservatory of Music, the University of Northern Iowa, the Musicians Institute Los Angeles and the Berklee College.
Since 1995 living in New York, he founded the multicultural musicians collective New York Jazz Guerrilla. Together with the Israeli pianist Sasi Shalom he committed himself to the German -Israeli Reconciliation (CD Long Time Coming 1996 tour in Israel and Germany ). De Winkel toured also in the group of tenor saxophonist Teodross Avery. After touring around the globe (among the first invited by China to tour western group) and collaborations with the likes of jazz and pop music of Pat Metheny and Joe Zawinul and Whitney Houston, Tab Two on Aziza Mustafa Zadeh up to the Brecker Brothers and Grandmaster Flash is de Winkel since 2005, co-initiator of the multicultural meeting and a community building dedicated Bimbache OpenArt Festival on the Canary island of El Hierro and the Human Condition Project based thereon. This global initiative organized forums for interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists of different traditions and genres.
The project underlying this neurophilosophical concepts presented de Winkel, inter alia, at the World Exhibition EXPO 2008 and at the Copenhagen Climate Summit 2009.