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Lehn, Thomas |
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analogue synthesizer |
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| Biography | THOMAS
LEHN, born May 21, 1958. Since the early 1980´s working as performer,
interpreter, composer and improvisor of contemporary music. His individual
style of musical expression is rooted in the experience of a broad spectrum
of musical fields. After studying recording engineering at the Hochschule
für Musik in Detmold (Germany), he moved to Cologne and received a formal
education at the Hochschule für Musik in order to become a professional
pianist. From 1980 to 1987 he studied both classical and jazz piano at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. During the 1980s he was the pianist of numerous jazz formations and a member of workshop ensembles conducted by Gunter Hampel, George Russell and Keith Tippett. As an interpreting pianist he has played concerts since 1982, performing both contemporary new music and traditionally composed music. Parallel to his work as a pianist, he concentrates on composing and performing electronic music. The electronic equipment he uses consists of analogue synthesizers of the late 1960s. The facilities of these ´historic´ instruments - e.g. to modify electronic sounds very directly as well as to combine and control several parameters at the same time - allows him to spontaneously act and react in close contact with the process of tension, space and structure of the music during the performance. As synthesize player he is member of a number of ensembles, e.g. VARIO-34, a sextet with Günter Christmann Alexander Frangenheim, Mats Gustafsson, Paul Lovens and Christian Munte; trios with Tim Hodgkinson and Roger Turner (Konk Pack), Phil Minton and Axel Dörner (Toot), Peter van Bergen and Gert-Jan Prins (E-Rax), Phil Durrant and Radu Malfatti Martin Theurer and Erhard Hirt. Duos with Gerry Hemingway ( Tom & Gerry) and Marcus Schmickler; a quintet with Alexander Frangenheim, Evan Parker Roger Turner and Phil Wachsmann; MIMEO, a 12 piece electronic orchestra, etc. He has repeatedly collaborated with Martin Blume, John Butcher Günter Christmann Jim Denley, Axel Dörner Phil Durrant, Christian Fennesz, Alexander Frangenheim, Wolfgang Fuchs Malcolm Goldstein, Gunda Gottschalk, Guillermo Gregorio, Beth Griffith, Mats Gustafsson, Gerry Hemingway, Erhard Hirt Tim Hodgkinson, Bruno Leicht, Hannes Loeschel, Paul Lovens Paul Lytton Radu Malfatti Jeffrey Morgan, Torsten Müller Evan Parker Keith Rowe, John Russell Hans Schneider, Burkhard Stangl, Martin Theurer, Roger Turner, Peter van Bergen Phil Wachsmann. |
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