Michael Riessler
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Michael Riessler is a German jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer born on June 19, 1957, in Ulm. After studying at the music academies in Cologne and Hannover, he joined the Ensemble Musique Vivante in Paris in 1978. Riessler collaborated with musicians such as Siegfried Palm and Aloys Kontarsky before touring West Africa with the Kölner Saxophon Mafia in 1988. He was a member of the Orchestre National de Jazz from 1989 to 1991 and began composing for theater and radio, including the 1986 work LâEcole des Bouffons. His album Héloïse (1992) and the later release Big Circle (2012) were both awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Riesslerâs career includes collaborations with Mauricio Kagel and Steve Reich, and he composed the score for the film Die Andere Heimat (2013). He began teaching at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1986 and was appointed professor of jazz at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in 2009.
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