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Teaching:
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1994 - 2008 lecturer for Jazz at the
Richard-Strauss-conservatoire
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2004 - 2008 special teaching assignments at the college of music and
theatre in Munich for composition and arrangement for Jazz and Jazz sax
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Since 2008
professor of composing/arrangement at the college of music
Carl-Maria-von-Weber Dresden (Saxony)
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numerous national and international workshops among other
things, the artistic director of the international saxophone workshop
1997 with Lee Konitz, James Moody, Generations Workshop Frauenfeld,
Switzerland 1998 and 2000 with Joe Lovano, George Gruntz, Benny Golson,
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work on an experiment on integral didactis: “music as
path” and “arrangement for Jazz and composition and perception”
(probably pubilshed in 2007)
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“Band Coaching” and seminar for Big Band conductors as a
part of the teachers’ inservice training course and for “Jugend jazzt”
(“youth makes jazz”)
Awards:
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Work for:
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Chamber music, Jazz ensembles, Big Band, choir,
orchestra, theatre, musical, music performance
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specialist for unusual crossover-projects (see premiers)
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wrote countless Big Band arrangements (assignments for
radio, TV, CD-producers etc.)
Concerts with:
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Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, Sam Rivers, Mike Gibbs, Toots
Thielemans, Ack van Rooijen, Stan Tracey, Karl Berger, Joe
Pass, Bill Holman, Benny Golson, Clark Terry, Gary Burton, Etta Cameron,
Allan Skidmore, Composers Improvisation Ensemble, European Chamber Jazz
Ensemble, David Friedman, Al Cohn, George Gruntz, Vinko Globokar and
others
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conductor and composer of the E B U Big Band with
musicians out of 14 European countries
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artistic
director of the teachers’ Big Band of Bavaria
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“Winsbacher
Knabenchor”, “Georgian Chamber Orchestra”
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arranger and soloits for “Jazz and The Philharmonics”
with members of the Philharmonics of Berlin
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Udo
Lindenberg, Peter Maffay, Bruno Jonas, Engelbert, Alexis Corner Band
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Premiers:
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1988: Musical “No Oscar for Casablanca”
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1991: “Metamorphosis” for wind ensemble and 5 soloists /
solo performers
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1993: “Terra Candida”, 5 shortstories for brass ensemble
and percussion (à
discography)
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1996: Music for Botho Strauß’s “Das Gleichgewicht”
(=Balance) (for the Studio Theatre of Munich,
à
dicography)
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1998: “About the undertaking a conversation that is not
held from the balcony” for a small orchestra and extemporizing baritone
saxophone
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1999: Encounter suite for choir and Jazz quintett
(Windsbacher Kanbenchor,
à
discography)
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2000: 50 years of the Orff institute: working on “Der
Mond” (“the moon”) for vocals and Jazz ensemble
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2001: “Spiel mit das Lied vom…”
(“Once
upon a time in the…”) … with Bruno Jonas and the Georgian Chamber
Orchestra
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2002: hymn cycle with the “Windsbacher Knaberchor” and
Thilo Wolf quintett
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2004: Musical “04, keiner kommt an Gott vorbei” (“no one
comes past God”), arranger for Enjott Schneider
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2005: “On the Wings of Hope” for the saxophone quartett
of Berlin
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2005: “Zollsound 5 and Kurt Weinzierl play “den Mond”
(The Moon)
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Own Ensembles:
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Rameau’s
nephews with Alfred Mehnter (lyrics) (contemporary grotesque in language
and music)
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MSF (à
dicography)
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“The conference” with Leo Gmelch (àdiscography)
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Zoll meets the Masterfranks (àdicography)
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Thomas Zoller jazz quartett “Zoller plays Mulligan”
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Zollsound 2 feat. Bill Elgart (à
discography)
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Zollsound 4 feat.
Lee Konitz (à
discography)
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„Sprechzeit“ ("time to speak")
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Zollsound Chamber Orchestra (à
discography)
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MSF “The Restart of…”
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Zollsound 5 and Kurt Weinzierl play Carl Orff’s “Der
Mond” (The Moon)
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Zollsound 5 “Songs Closer to Silence”
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