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Christian Bollmann

About Me

Christian Bollmann is a musician, composer, multiinstrumentalist, overtonesinger, soundhealer, initiator of the peace-pool-project and teacher of music. He studied music education, jazz, and contemporary music in Cologne and holds his degree in musical education and composition. He has collaborated with Jon Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, Michael Vetter, Roberto Laneri, David Hykes, Keith Tippet, groups as BOURY, PADLT NOIDLT, JAZZHOUSE BIGBAND COLOGNE, and others.He works as solist, in duo and trio with various partners as Michael Reimann, Ufo Walter, Günter Müller, Chris Amrhein, Bernd Michael Sommer, Markus Stockhausen, Stefan Heidtmann, Willi Grimm (Switzerland), Aruna Sayeeram (India), Daniel Namkhai (Brasil), and is founder and director of the Overtone Choir of Düsseldorf. Since 1969 he has been involved with european overtone singing and works as a free-lance musician, composer, director, inventor (Bodyboxes, Aquaphone) and producer on various projects, exploring the healing power of sound. He has published 20 CDs with his own compositions yet and teaches worldwide.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/06/2008
Band Website: http://www.lichthaus-musik.de/
Band Members:

Anita Holtmann
Elke Elbe
Heidi Ahrendtsen
Jutta Reichardt
Christa Stein
Claudia Noll
Renate Grundmann,
Martin Derendorf
Dieter Wienand
Kolja Simon
Wilfried Maack
Christoph Cleve
Christoph Becker
Wolfhard Barke
Christoph Schumacher
Christian Bollmann, Choir Leader

Influences: Nature, Hazrath Inayat Khan, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jon Cage, Michael Vetter, David Hykes, Roberto Laneri, Bobby McFerrin, The Spirit of Music ...
Record Label: Lichthaus Musik
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

»Healing Buddha Oratory - a lovesong for Tibet«

Top Aktuell: »Healing Buddha Oratory - a lovesong for Tibet«Die neue CD von Christian Bollmann und dem ObertonchorEinen Tag nach dem die CD aus der Fertigung kam, kamen die ersten Schreckensmeldungen ...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Das Repertoire des Obertonchor Düsseldorf

Mit einem inzwischen großen Repertoire bewegt sich das Programm des Obertonchores zwischen sphärisch/meditativen Klangritualen mit Obertongesang, der magischen anmutenden Kunst, alleine zweistimmig zu...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Christian Bollmann - Spirit in Soundspace

BackgroundMy first encounter with sung overtones was in 1969 at a performance of Karl Stockhausen's "Stimmung" ("Mood") in the studio of the Beethoven Concert Hall in Bonn. The atmosphere created by t...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT