Concert with German Jazz Star Michael Schiefel
Thu 21 May 2015, 8 pm
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
The German jazz star is performing solo in the courtyard of Goethe-Institut.
Michael Schiefel is an exception, not only in the German jazz scene but also on stage. In his solo performances, he is an entertainer who is not afraid to make serious art and to smile while doing so. As a singer, he experiments with his distinctive bright and sometimes smoky voice with electronic loop devices, so that he ends up singing in a choir made up solely of himself. This evening he is on stage at the Goethe-Institut, presenting songs from his album “my home is my tent”. His idiosyncratic songs show him as a visionary thinker who does not submit to normal structures but is constantly breaking new ground, resulting in expressive acoustic images.
Born in 1970 in Münster, Michael Schiefel moved to Berlin in the early nineties to immerse himself in the local jazz scene. There he trained as a jazz singer, graduating from the University of the Arts. Since 2001 he is professor of jazz singing at the Weimar Academy of Music. As early as 1997, his first solo album “Invisible Loop” earned much praise from audiences and the press. He has traveled for festivals and tours through Europe, the US, Africa and the Middle East. Michael Schiefel was seen and heard in Vietnam in 2010 as a singer with the jazz ensemble Thärichens Tentett.
Free Admission.
On 22 May Michael Schiefel also has a jam session with JumpforJazz of Nguyen Bao Long.
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