| WOLFGANG FUCHS | Contrabassclarinet, Bassclarinet, Sopraninosax |
| Knesebeckstr. 97 D - 10623 Berlin Fon/Fax +49 (0) 30-313 75 52 wolf.fuchs@gmx.net |
| 1949 | Born in Landau/Palatine |
| 1958 | First musical education (violin, mandolin) |
| 1969-74 | Studies at the Music Academy of Karlsruhe (sax, clarinet) |
| 1974 | Moves to Berlin |
| seit 1976 | Working as freelance-musician |
| 1981 | First tour in the GDR |
| 1983 | Founder and leader of the tentet King Übü Örchestrü |
| 1985 | Trio Berliner Begegnung (Berlin Encounter) with Fred van Hove and Paul Lytton |
| 1986 | Member of Cecil Taylor´s The European American Group |
| 1987 | Concerts in England, GDR, Austria, France, Switzerland, West-Germany |
| 1988 | Concerts in England, GDR, Austria, France, Switzerland, West-Germany |
| Leads workshops in Austria and Belgium | |
| Soloconcerts in Poland (Goethe-Institut) | |
| Encounter and first collaboration with composer Georg Katzer; GDR-Tour | |
| 1989 | Concerts in Sweden, Denmark and Finland |
| Tour in Germany with the King Übü Örchestrü | |
| 1990 | Member of Cecil Taylor´s Orchestra Total Taylor Total (FMP) |
| Participating in the Electron-Music-Festival in Sweden (Skinnskatteberg, Stockholm) with Georg Katzer | |
| German Encounters (Rostock, Potsdam) with Georg Katzer | |
| Collaboration with Georg Katzer in his Multimedia-Project Rooms (Berlin) | |
| 1991 | Particpating in the Festival Syntèse in Bourges (France), together with Georg Katzer and Hannes Bauer |
| Scandinavia-tour with Cecil Taylor, Tony Oxley, Barry Guy, Harri Sjöström | |
| 1993 | Founder of the contrabass-clarinet-trio Holz für Europa |
| (with Hans Koch/Switzerland, and Peter van Bergen/Netherlands) | |
| 1994 | Sweden-tour with Paul Lytton and Mats Gustafsson |
| 1995 | Participating with his King Übü Örchestrü at the Festival of Nickelsdorf/Austria |
| England-tour with Phil Wachsmann and Paul Lytton | |
| Member of Butch Morris´ Berlin Skyscrapers (FMP Total Music Meeting) | |
| Creates and organizes a series of gallery-concerts
in Berlin (Galerie Ermer), inviting musicians like Paul Lytton, Phil Minton, Phil Wachsmann, Sainko Namtchylak, Aleks Kolkowski, Axel Dörner et al. (supported by DAAD and the German Music Council) |
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| Concerts with his contrabass-clarinet-trio Holz für Europa | |
| 1996 | Concerts in Rome (Villa Massimo), with Georg Katzer and Helmut Zapf |
| Founder and leader of berlin factory (a workshop-ensemble with young Berlin-based musicians) | |
| Participating in Fahrtenbuch, a scenic-musical collage staged by director Alexander Stillmark,with actors, dancers and musicians. | |
| Performances in Berlin (Hebbel-Theater) and Poland (Goethe-Institute) | |
| seit 1996 | Leads workshops in Germany, Austria, USA, Italy |
| 1997 | Eric-Dolphy-Project, Performances of eleven Dolphy-compositions, newly arranged by Alexander von Schlippenbach, commissioned by contrabass-clarinet-trio Holz für Europa |
| Concert series with Butch Morris´ Skyscrapers in Turkey and Germany | |
| Solo-tour in USA und Canada | |
| Participating in Now where to? Homage to Heinrich Heine, a scenic-musical performance by Maria Husmann, Jean-Luc Montera, and others (Goethe-Institut Marseille) | |
| Linguafonie 3. Laboratorio d´Improvvisazione Italo-Tedesco (Goethe-Institut, Rome) | |
| Performs with berlin factory at the Soundworkshop ´97: Contemporrary Music in Kreuzberg | |
| First collaboration with writer and poet Gerd-Peter Eigner (Performances in Germany and Switzerland) |
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| 1998 | Composing Aqua libre for berlin factory, performed at the festival Kryptonale IV in Berlin |
| Trio-concert with Georg Katzer and Hannes Bauer at the Festival Brandenburgische Kunsttage | |
| Concert-tour in Italy and Switzerland | |
| 1998 | Participating in festival in Belgium, Turkey, Switzerland, Hungary (Goethe-Institute) |
| seit 1998 | Co-founder of Musica Lingua (Improvisation & Declamation),
trio with writer Gerd-Peter Eigner and Alexander von Schlippenbach |
| 1999 | Concert-tour with contrabass-clarinet-trio Holz für Europa in the Netherlands |
| Tour in Germany with trio Musica Lingua (Eigner, Fuchs, v. Schlippenbach) | |
| Concerts with Berlin Skyscrapers (Berlin) and Sven-Ake Johansson | |
| 2000 | Solo-gigs in the Netherlands, concerts with berlin factory 2000 |
| Co-member of trio Lingua (with Thomas Lehn and Fabrizio Spera), concerts in Germany | |
| Participant of Expo 2000 (Hannover), Concerts with Trio 'Holz für Europa' in Switzerland and Germany; Solo-concerts in Spain | |
| Initiator of TOTAL MUSIC MEETING compact (No Budget festival) | |
| 2001 | US-tour, performance @ TOTAL MUSIC MEETING 2001 |
| 1981 | Improvised music to experimental films by Hans Richter,
Vikking Eggeling, Diter Rot, a.o.. Film-Music-Concert-tour with percussionist Sven-Åke Johansson |
| Soundtrack for an experimental fiction-film by director Michael Proksch | |
| 1984 | Der Spaten und die Harke, Operetta by Sven-Åke Johansson |
| Performances at Hebbel-Theater, Berlin, and Theater am Neumarkt, Zurich | |
| Improvised music to experimental films by Helmut Nickels,
Junichi Okujama, Kurt Kren, Ernie Gehr, a.o. On tour (film & improvised music) with Alexander von Schlippenbach |
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| 1985 | Live-Performance with improvised music to the newly reconstructed integral version of director Erich von Stroheim´s film Queen Kelly, staged at the International Filmfestival of Berlin, together with Alexander von Schlippenbach |
| 1986 | Participant of Günter Christmann´s filmproject and group Vario 21 |
| Participant of Über die Ursache der Meinungsverschiedenheiten beim Turmbau zu Babel, Operetta by A. v. Schlippenbach und Sven-Åke Johansson, performed at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and Stadttheater Gütersloh (Germany) | |
| Participant of the Multi-Media-Performance Large Area (music, dance, actors, acrobats) staged in Oberhausen | |
| 1990 | Participant of the Multi-Media-Project Rooms by Georg Katzer (electronics, improviesd music, dia-show) |
| 1996 | Participant of Fahrtenbuch, a scenic-musical collage by director Alexander Stillmark with texts by poet Durs Grünbein, et al. and compositions by Georg Katzer, first performed at the Hebbel-Theater, Berlin, then tour in Poland |
| 1997 | Participant of And now - where to? Homage to Heinrich Heine (Goethe-Institut Marseille) |
| 2000 | Initiator of TOTAL MUSIC MEETING compact 2000 |
| 2001 | Artistic director of TOTAL MUSIC MEETING 2001 |
| 1984 | Quarterly Award of the German Disc-Critique (for BAD) |
| 1990 | Grant by the City of Berlin (for King Übü Örchestrü) |
| 1996 | 3-months-Grant of the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, as artist in residence at Villa Serpentara, Olevano Romano, Italy |
| 1997 | Grant to carry out compositional work by the City of Berlin (for Money Gang) |
| 1979 | Who Is Who The Berlin Worskshop Orchestra saj 24 |
| Momente Fuchs/Schneider/Huber fmp 0610 | |
| Idylle und Katastrophen Johansson/Schlippenbach, u.a. po torch 6 | |
| 1983 | Echo Berliner Austauschdienst (BAD) uhlklang 2 |
| Berliner Begegnung Fuchs/van Hove/Hollinger saj 47 | |
| 1984 | A Frogman´s View Quartet XPACT uhlklang 5 |
| 1985 | Music Is Music Is... King Übü Örchestrü uhlklang 6 |
| 1986 | So-Und? SO! Fuchs solo uhlklang 7 |
| Vario (21) Günter Christmanns Vario-Projekte moers music | |
| 1987 | NMUI im SO 36 Ic 4557 |
| Wo der Kopf sitzt Berliner Begegnung saj 56 | |
| The Glider & the Grinder Wachsmann/Oxley/Metcalfe/Fuchs bead 25 | |
| 1989 | Über die Ursache der Meinungsverschiedenheiten... saj |
| 1990 | Duets Dithyrambisch Sclavis/Parker/Koch/Fuchs fmp cd 19/20 |
| Finkfarker Katzer/Fuchsfmp cd 26 | |
| 1992 | Binaurality King Übü Örchestrü fmp cd 49 |
| 1993 | Georg Katzer: Dialog imaginaire 4 für Bassklarinette und Tonband wergo 6274 |
| Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik Fuchs/Katzer/BauerWDR/ WD 03 | |
| Ohrkiste Radu Malfatti ITMI/Classics | |
| 1996 | Bits & Pieces Fuchs solo fmp 9000-4 |
| 1997 | Comité Imaginaire Holz für Europa fmp cd 84 |
| 1998 | Berlin Skyscraper Butch Morris fmp cd 92/93 |
| Il grande quarto D´ORA Giancarlo Locatelli C.M.C. 9980 | |
| 1999 | Linguafonie 3 CAS LF 3 |
| Cecil Taylor: The Workshop Ensemble fmp cd 104 | |
| 2001 | Lingua (Fuchs / Lehn / Spera) om 12010 |
| Trigger Zone King Übü Örchestrü fmp cd 117 | |
| 2002 | Three October Meetings (Fuchs/Bryerton/Smith) bpa 003 |
| 2003 | The New Flags mit Xu Fengxia & Roger Turner a/l/l 007 |
| Audiology II -11 Groups live in Berlin Total Music Meeting 2002 a/l/l 006 |
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