B I O G R A P H Y •
Ulrike Haage grows up to become an indian and lives in a teepee under the roof of her parental home, chases dreams and rides with wild horses through the ruhrarea on an old solex. Feeds off legendary jazz recordings for breakfast, lunch and dinner. First pianolessons when 11 years old. Practices with the masters: Bill Evans, Thelonius Monk, Ahmad Jamal, but sings and plays the guitar in a neighborhood garage band. Ulrike Haage then studies music and music therapy in Hamburg, which is where in the ensuing years she workes at the music college as a lecturer for improvisation. Her musical career starts in 1984 when she co-founds the first German big band for women "Reichlich Weiblich". She has since passed through many different stages of musical development, including through her involvement and collaborative work with Alfred Harth, FM Einheit, and Phil Minton,the group VLADIMIR ESTRAGON later transformed into the trio GOTO, up to setting radio plays and stage plays to music. Since 1989, together with Katharina Franck, she forms the heart of the pop group RAINBIRDS.
Photo: Anton Corbijn
Numerous records and CD productions document the range of her work. Her musical work in theater with renowned directors like Peter Zadek and Kazuko Watanabe brings her to theaters in Hamburg, Zürich, Düsseldorf and Berlin.
With her radio works like Reise, Toter, Ding fest machen and Exakte Vision Ulrike Haage intensifies her investigations of the area bordering between electronics and provocative, acoustic radio play. All productions are published with Sans Soleil.
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2003 Ulrike Haage receives the Albert-Mangelsdorff-Award, (GERMAN JAZZ AWARD) "for her outstanding and truely versatile life-work that permanently reinvents itself"(Markus Müller).
2004 she releases her first Solo album SÉLAVY. Invitations brought her as a performer from Russia to Afghanistan and to Siberia.
2005 Ricordi Publishing releases the piano edition PIANOSCOPE. The collection of 31 piano compositions combines many kinds of influences to a unique style, permitting astonishing piano sonorities that excite curiosity and at the same time leave scope for ones owns feelings.
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2006 her second solo album, the double CD WEISSES LAND, is published. WEISSES LAND includes the Bonus CD THE WONG SESSIONS with an uncut 25-minute improvisation called 9frogslightgreen and the electronic trance-track weißes land.She composes the music in "The making of Requiem", director: Hans Christian Schmidt.
2007 A new production for the Bavarian Broadcast is based on an idea for a composition with basically only few words vanishing in a musical reflected space, called "Die Stille hinter den Worten".
2007 Plans for the third Solo CD FORTVNY FINGERPRINTS are growing.
2007 - 2009 Ulrike Haage will be collaborating with the FONDATION HARTUNG BERGMAN, Antibes, for an opus, that will be written as a musical reflection on the paintings of Anna Eva Bergmann and excerpts of poems from her favorite writer Franz Werfel. The project is called NUNATAK and will have premiere in 2009. A composition for chamber orchestra, vibraphone, marimbaphone and electronics.
NUNATAK est une composition pour orchestre de chambre, deux voix et sons éléctroniques, miroitant le mystique et l'indicible d'un processus artistique, du moment du concept à la réalisation. Anna-Eva Bergman était fascinée par l'écriture de Franz Werfel, qui parlait beaucoup du contact de l'être humain avec le divin, l'indiscible ; ce mystère qui rend les choses plus grandes que nous. La base du texte de NUNATAK provient des extraits des journaux de Anna-Eva Bergman et des poèmes de Werfel. Il s'agit non seulement d'un hommage mais de la réflexion d'une pensée, qui avait tant occupée Bergman : le moment spirituel et mystique, qui aide a créer sa propre vision artistique du monde.
N E W 2008 •
LE PIANOSCOPE is a collection of piano pieces, exclusively written for film and images, live recorded in Traumton Studio in Berlin. Le pianoscope will be available through unippm.de
N E W 2008 • "DIE STILLE HINTER DEN WORTEN" BR, 2008, sans soleil publishing
featuring Carlos Bica, Double Bass, and Anna Lena Zühlke, Voice.
"An author has made off. Disappeared. Leaving us only with a few words, bringing the abandoned spaces of life with nothing but faded fragments of memory. These words sparkle like relfections from a distant past, flashes of erstwhile ideas. His absence has left a trail, laying down a track of resonance and rekindling memories of a vague presence that is no longer language but a mere of the words - thought tracks transformed into soundtracks. We, the deserted, remain behind in this space full of silence, of silence fulfilled. Yet, somewhere among the sounds, the fragments of language and the music IT can surely still be found: the "was", the "has been", that is so implacably present. Every sound, every syllable, every word and every name acts like an invocation, filling the space of silence with a tangible presence. Outlines of the real, of passion, of death...Nothing disappears. Nothing disappears without traces. Not in the fissures of the world, not in the arcanum of silence." (Harry Lachner)
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N O W • The actuel exciting concert program WEISSES LAND (grand piano, electronics and light design) is offered as a Solo Show or in special rare cases as a Duo with the young drummer Eric Schaefer.
B O O K I N G • hauptmannentertainment.com/artist_ulrike_haage_termine.php
THE latest solo albums SÉLAVY and WEISSES LAND are available through
CD Sèlavy
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CD Weißes Land
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Photo: B.Hentschel c 2007