Jochen Bohnes

Bio

Jochen Bohnes, *1959, classical piano lessons since early childhood. 1975-77 jazz lessons with Ed Kröger, Sigi Busch, Uli Beckerhoff and Heinz Wendel, 1976-78 classical piano lessons with Gabriele Wulff at the Hamburg Conservatory.

Canceled studies in painting and sculpture at the HfBK Lerchenfeld in Hamburg 1977.

Music studies at the "Swiss Jazz School", Bern 1979-86. Concert diploma in piano, secondary instruments trombone and double bass. Piano lessons with Fritz Pauer and Joe Haider. Further teachers there: Axel Jungbluth, Mladen Gutesha, Umberto Arlati and Billy Brooks. Additional lessons with Paul Motian, Joe Zawinul, Roland Hanna, Woody Shaw, Joanne Brackeen and others.

Studies of electronic music at the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam/NL 1986/87. Introduction to the software environment "Max" by Bruno Spoerri and David Zicarelli at the Swiss Center for Computer Music 1989. Further studies in- and collaboration with the "Electronic Studio of the Music Academy Basel" under the direction of Thomas Kessler from 1993-99. Encounters with many contemporary composers, including Luciano Berio, Helmut Lachenmann, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jacques Wildberger and others. Collaboration with- or work for- various other studios, including SWR Experimentalstudio (former Strobel Stiftung), Freiburg/D, Dir. André Richard; IRIS, Paliano/I, M.A.R.S., Dir. Peppino Di Giugno; Studio für Elektroakustische Musik der Akademie der Künste, Berlin/D, Dir. Georg Katzer.

Software-Development for Peter Ablinger, Luciano Berio, Thomas Kessler, Rolf Riehm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giorgio Tedde, Jacques Wildberger a.o..

Sound technology for Electric Phoenix/Dir.: Terry Edwards and for Alvin Curran.

Engagements at universities in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the USA.

Workshops and lectures at universities and conferences in Basel, Berlin, Bern, Cologne, Lucerne, Osnabrück, Munich, San Diego, Stuttgart, Zurich.

Radio productions of own music for BBC, DRS, Radio Suisse Romande, SDF, SWR, WDR, a.o..

Concerts/Festivals/People

Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart/D; Musikwoche der Akademie der Künste, Berlin/D; Donaueschinger Musiktage/D; RamTamTam, Köln/D; New Jazz Festival, Moers/D; Electromonty, Antwerpen/B; Klangart, Osnabrück/D; Drei Tage Musik, Bern/CH; Sampling Rage, Berlin/D; VCF-Festival, Köln/D; VorEcho, Freiburg/D; Unforeseen, München/D; Muzik3, San Diego/USA and other festivals for contemporary music a.o. in Amsterdam/NL, Basel/CH, Berlin/D, Den Haag/NL, Dresden/D, Freiburg/D, Giessen/D, Köln/D, Luzern/CH, Mulhouse/F, Paris/F, Rümligen/CH, Stuttgart/D, Saarbrücken/D, Wien/A, Zürich/CH.

a.o. with Umberto Arlati, Antonis Artissegos, Johannes Bauer, Adrian Brendel, Hayden Chisholm, Robert Dick, Axel Dörner, Bill Douglass, David Elias, Karlheinz Essl, Muneer Abdul Fatah, Christian Fennesz, Domenico Ferrari, Hardy Fischötter, Wolfgang Fuchs, Gunnar Geisse, Vinko Globokar, Frank Gratkowski, Doug Hammond, Jonas Hellborg, Anna Lindblom, Lars Lindvall, Paul Lovens, Gareth Lubbe, Rudi Mahall, Delia Mayer, JoJo Mayer, Bob Moses, Sylvia Nopper, Makaya Ntshoko, Eric Peter, Dave Peterson, Norbert Pfammatter, Michel Poffet, James Reynolds, Jochen Rückert, Norbert Scholly, Conrad Steinmann, John Voirol, Tim Wells, Nils Wogram, Jimmy Woode, Alfred Zimmerlin, the Trio Accanto, the Arosa String Quartet, the Basel Sinfonietta (Dir.: Arturo Tamayo) and the Symphonieorchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks (Dir.: Diego Masson).