Michael Griener

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Michael Griener
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Griener in 2022
Background information
Born (1968-02-06) 6 February 1968 (age 57)
Nuremberg, Germany
Genres Jazz
OccupationMusician
Instrument Percussion
Website michaelgriener.de

Michael Griener (born 6 February 1968) is a German jazz percussionist. [1]

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Life and Works

Griener, who was already well known as an improviser and interpreter of contemporary music, moved to Berlin in 1994. In Berlin, he appeared on the scenes with many musicians such as Tal Farlow, Herb Ellis, Barry Guy, Axel Dörner, Mal Waldron, Paul Lovens, Zeena Parkins, Keith Tippett, Butch Morris, Ulrich Gumpert, Evan Parker, Aki Takase, Mats Gustafsson, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Joëlle Léandre, David Liebman, Conny Bauer, Johannes Bauer, Andrea Neumann, Chris Dahlgren, Frank Gratkowski, Phil Minton and Tony Buck.

He cooperated with Günther Christmann in Vario-Projekte for a long time (at C.I.M. festival in the Hague 1990. at Moers festival 1992, Interplay 2006, ...). With the duet Kimmo Elomaa and with the Live-Elektroniker Jayrope, he was awarded the prize Senate of Berlin in 2001. Besides, he worked with dancers like Anzu Furukawa and David Zambrano and with actors and writers. He collaborated also with Oskar Ansull in the Paul Celan project. At present, he plays in Ulrich Gumpert's quartet, Baby Bonk, and his own trio Themore 3, TGW (with Christian Weber and Michael Thieke), in Lacy Pool and in a duet with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky. [2]

Griener made tours in many European countries and also in Turkey, Israel, Morocco and the USA. He teaches jazz and rhythm at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber and at the Jazz School Berlin.

Awards and honours

In March 2006, he won the prize the most creative soloist at the Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis. In November 2008, he was appointed honorary professor of the Hochschule für Music Carl Maria von Weber. [3]

Discography

1993

1994

1997

1998

1999

2003

2004

2005

2007

2008

References

  1. "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek".
  2. "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek".
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)