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documentation of the film composer Thorsten Wollmann

The road from jazz to classical music. The 2nd part of the documentation of this journey with the film composer Thorsten Wollmann. “Wollmann allows himself to be inspired by visual elements, pictures, shapes and natural phenomenen, as well as dreams and philosophical ideas and searches for the sounds in the pictures... Nonetheless this is not just about simple music for meditational purposes, although you couldn´t object to this being said because the sound painter knows exactly how to convey feelings with the music, in a very direct but also absolutely unpretentious way...” (Ingo Wackenhut, SCALA) The Characteristics of Water · CD · Thorsten Wollmann · Works edition prod. by K&K 1997. The Strings of the Bulgarian Broadcasting Orchestra Sofia conducted by Thorsten Wollmann; Flavio Puntin (fl/a-fl), Claudio Puntin (cl/b-cl), Wolf Kerschek (vibes/marimba), Ulla van Daehlen (harp), Thorsten Wollmann (piano); The Ensemble Pyramide - Flavio Puntin (fl), Barbara Tillmann (ob/e.h.), Ulrike Jacoby (vl), Pascal Siffert (vla), Anita Jehli (vle), Jael Bertschinger (harp); Thorsten Wollmann was born on february 10th, 1966 in Biberach Laupheim, Baden Württemberg, Germany. He graduated with M.M. from the Musikhochschule Köln (the Cologne School of Music), majoring in composition and jazz trumpet, minoring in piano. His final exam concert in 1994 was recorded and broadcasted by the West German Radio (WDR). As a soloist he was a member of the Youth Jazz Orchestra Baden-Württemberg, the National Jazz Orchestra, the National Jazz Septett, the German-Scandinavan-Jazz Project and the "Südpoolensemble". On tour concerts he performed in West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. His own band, the Thorsten Wollmann Quintet, performed for the South German Radio (SDR and SWR) and with the Cologne Radio Orchestra for the WDR. As a composer he wrote commission works for the Cologne Radio Orchestra, the Thorsten Wollmann Orchestra, the Jazz Orchestras of the WDR, SDR, HR (Hessian Radio), NDR (North German Radio), the soloists Bobby Shew (USA), Tom Harell (USA) and John Taylor (UK), the National Jazz Orchestra, the Südpoolensemble, the German Jazz Orchestra, the German Music Festival, the Ensemble Pyramid (Switzerland), Duo Concertante (Cologne) and the Bamberg Symphony Bigband. He also composes for film (in 1996 he was invited as the only European composer to participate in the ASCAP-Film-Composer-Workshop in Hollywood), and has written jazz compositions, tangos, children songs, music for band, chamber music and symphonic music. Examples of his works are the “Africa Suite” for Big Band, “Siddharta” for Jazz Orchestra, a “Concerto for Symphonic Band”, “The Characteristics of Water” for the Ensemble Pyramide, a “Piano Concerto”, “The Elements” for Orchestra, and the “Symphony to the End of the 20th Century”. Thorsten Wollmann was awarded the Jazz Prize of the State Baden Württemberg (Germany) in 1992. Since 1996 the composer has lived in Thailand, together with his wife Pimonmas (who has a Ph.D. in German Literature) and their daugther Alissa Janine. He is working as a lecturer for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in the Music Department of Payap Universitiy, Chiang Mai.