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Simon Stockhausen

Composer/Keyboarder/Saxplayer/Producer

About Me


Simon Stockhausen was born on the 5th of June 1967 near Cologne. At the age of five he commenced his musical education (piano, saxophone, drums, synthesizer, composition) and began performing in his father´s works at the age of 12. After his final exams 1986 he started touring the world with the Stockhausen ensemble and also co-produced the electronic music for two of the operas by his father Karlheinz. In 1996 their collaboration stopped.
The successful collaboration with his brother Markus Stockhausen over the last 20 years in the field of jazz and improvised music generated numerous CD-releases on record labels like ECM, EMI, LARGO, two compositions for the Cologne philharmonic, soundtracks for film- and theatreproductions as well as concerts throughout the world. In 2005 they published their last album nonDUALITY .
Simon has also composed music for the Ensemble Modern Point of no Return 1993, Berliner Geschichten 1999, for the Musikfabrik NRW Parametrics 1993, the Venice Biennale 1993, the IMD in Darmstadt Brandnächte 1996 and the WDR Bigband - JUBILEE 1996 and INNER CIRCLES 1997 and wrote chamber music for various ensembles.
Since 1998 Simon has composed and arranged music for many german theatres, the Berliner Ensemble, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Staatstheater Mainz, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Schauspiel Köln and worked with directors like Peter Palitzsch and Burkhard Kosminski. He also did musical recitals with Hannah Shygullah (KRONOS KAIROS) and David Bennent ( Gilgamesch-Epos 2000).
Besides the compositional work he has performed numerous concerts as a keyboard and saxophone player in various constellations, also with the WDR Bigband in Lalo Shifrin´s piece ESPERANTO (2000) and James Morrison, with whom he founded the Band ON THE EDGE in 2003.
Simon has also written many filmscores for documentary, fiction and short films and worked together with the israelian filmmaker Amos Gitai. He frequently has encounters with performance-artists, most recently with Lucy&Jorge Orta in their Performance-cycle OPERA.tion Life Nexus and the persian artist Misha Bolourie in his light-installation 1.000.000 lights for Berlin
Since 2002/03 he has also performed contemporary music with the Sharoun-Ensemble and the Berlin philharmonic orchestra playing music by Heiner Goebbels (Surrogate Cities/from a diary) and Peter Eötvös.
In 2004 he founded the Band ROYCE together with the saxophone player Christian Weidner and recorded an album which was released in 2006.
Simon also composed the Soundtrack for Trip to Asia - The Quest for Harmony the new film by Boomtown Media, the producers of Rhythm is it
check out some more of Simon´s music @ Simon´s mp3 page
Simon's MP3 Online Store
OUT NOW - the double album ROYCE-THE FIRST
please also visit UNIVERSE OF SOUNDS
Simon's sounds at Soundsnap

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Member Since: 8/10/2006
Band Website: simonstockhausen.com
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Record Label: ECM/EMI/LARGO
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My Blog

ten reasons to wake up in the morning

No 1 - A new day is waiting for me, everything is possibleNo 2 - My cats are sitting in front of my bed, waiting to get fedNo 3 - I dreamed about some music and now rush into my studio to check what t...
Posted by Simon Stockhausen on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:46:00 PST