Walter Quintus
Walter Quintus ( born April 15, 1949 in Bremen ) is a German musician, composer, sound engineer and music producer.
Biography
Quintus studied from 1955 to 1969 violin and was in 1959 concertmaster in youth orchestras. It was followed by many European tours as well as radio and television productions. At the age of 18 years to study with David Oistrakh in Moscow, but he finished his classical studies and founded, together with Thomas Olivier and Lothar Siems, the rock band Parzival. They released two LPs and one single on Teldec ( Telefunken / Decca ).
From 1972, he began as Bremen and Hamburg Rüssl studio record yourself short on music and mix. In the early years he worked with commercial musicians and bands such as Rex Gildo, rough cut, Kraan, Kraftwerk, Vicky Leandros, Udo Lindenberg, Lonzo, Jahn Teigen, Otto Waalkes, Roger Whittaker and many others.
End of the 70s he produced Rolf and Joachim Kühn. He changed from a commercial to the artistic avant-garde camp. This was followed by CDs ( in alphabetical order):
- Arild Andersen
- Richard Barbieri, Joey Baron, Django Bates, Harry Beckett, Richie Beirach, John Bergamo, Michael Brecker, Jack Bruce, Bill Bruford
- Carolyn Carlson, Philip Catherine, Gary Chaffee, Don Cherry, Eric Clapton, JF Jenny -Clark, John Clark, Clem Clempson, Sylvie Courvoisier, Jim Cox
- Kudsi Erguner, Peter Erskine, Bill Evans
- Mark Feldman, Anton Fier, Renaud Garcia- Fons, Bill Frisell, Gamelan Sekar Tunjung, Jan Garbarek, Michel Godard, Mick Goodrick, Shoba Gurtu, Trilok Gurtu
- Billy Hart, Dick Heckstall -Smith, Allan Holdsworth, Daniel Humair, Gary Husband, Tony Hymas
- Anthony Jackson, Jadranka, Jimmy Johnson, Quincy Jones
- Mick Karn, Rabih Abou- Khalil, Eartha Kitt, Lee Konitz
- Christof Lauer, David Liebman, Steve Lukather
- Kamalesh Maitra, Albert Mangelsdorff, Ed Mann, Charlie Mariano, Jean -Louis Matinier, Amira Medunjanin, Pat Metheny, Wolfgang Mitterer, Gary Moore, Glen Moore, Jaques Morel tree, Alphonse Mouzon, Wolfgang Muthspiel
- Mark Nauseef, NDR Big Band, Adam Nussbaum
- Simon Phillips, Wolfgang puschnig
- Maggie Reilly, Repercussion Unit, Ricardo Ribeiro
- Louis Sclavis, L. Shankar, Michael Shrieve, Markus Stockhausen, Simon Stockhausen
- Miroslav Tadić, Jahn Teigen, St. Thomas Choir, David Torn, Ralph Towner
- Naná Vasconcelos, Glen Velez, Edward Vesala
- Chad Wackerman, Eric Watson, Norma Winstone, Michael Wollny
- Joe Zawinul
1984 created Quintus together with Joachim Kühn Digital Sound Board, an analog - digital mixer, equipped with many electronic effects, which makes it possible to change music played immediately and directly acoustically and expand. The Digital Soundboard was designed for live use in ballet productions Time Exposure (Broadway, New York, Carolyn Carlson ), Dark ( Théatre de la Ville, Paris, Carolyn Carlson ) Get up early and Citizen Kane (Opera, Cologne, Jochen Ullrich ), and in many concerts with Joachim Kühn, Jean -François Jenny -Clark, John Bergamo, Josep -Maria Balanyà, including
Since 1994, Quintus also works with audio type, an experimental form of modern radio plays.
He produced in Turkey, India and Indonesia, among others with Kudsi Erguner, Shoba Gurtu, K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat, Sruti Laya. Most of his productions of jazz, classical and new music, in both Europe and the USA.