Ernst Reijseger

Ernst Reijseger

Ernst Reijseger, Moers Festival 2007
Background information
Born (1954-11-13) 13 November 1954
Bussum, The Netherlands
Genres Jazz, Contemporary classical music ⋅
Occupation(s) Musician
Composer
Instruments Cello

Ernst Reijseger (born 13 November 1954) is a Dutch cellist and composer. He specializes in jazz, improvised music, and contemporary classical music and often gives solo concerts. He has worked with Louis Sclavis, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg, Gerry Hemingway, Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Mangelsdorff, Franco D'Andrea, Joëlle Léandre, Georg Gräwe, Trilok Gurtu, and Mola Sylla, and has done several world music projects working with musicians from Sardinia, Turkey, Iran, Senegal, and Argentina, as well as the Netherlands based group Boi Akih.

He has made numerous recordings, both as solo cellist and with other groups, and has been the subject of a documentary film. He has also written several film scores, including scores for a number of Werner Herzog films.

Film scores

Both scores of The White Diamond and The Wild Blue Yonder were recorded in the same sessions with Reijseger, Mola Sylla, and the Voches De Sardinia.

Werner Herzog, who led the musicians, gave them simple instructions as to what the music should be like, including "Make space.".

Reijseger later commented: "I had very little to do with the overall outcome of the music, it was them, they did it."

Quotes on...

"He is a magnificent cellist, and he can do anything, anything on his cello. He could play the civil war, the American Civil War on his cello." —Werner Herzog

Solo and group work

Reijseger's most well known solo album is Colla Parte, which he recorded in a room of a small villa which he was staying in on a trip to Sardinia, this would be the same trip that he would meet the Voches De Sardinia with whom he recorded Colla Voche.

He has done several recordings with Mola Sylla, including Requiem for a Dying Planet, and Janna.

Reijseger is also a member of the Amsterdam String Trio, with Ernst Glerum and Maurice Horsthuis, and another trio, simply called Graewe, Reijseger, Hemingway, with Georg Graewe and Gerry Hemingway.

He was also a member of the ICP Orchestra (or Instant Composers Pool) for many years, as well as the Clusone Trio with Michael Moore and Han Bennink.

Discography


With the Amsterdam String Trio

With the Arcado String Trio

With the Uri Caine Ensemble

With Michael Moore

References

    External links

    This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.