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Album "Con Alma"

Thomas Rückert piano |
Gunther Tiedemann cello |

Con Alma – Music for Cello and Piano - Live recording from June 23, 2024, at o-ton Köln with Gunther Tiedemann and Thomas Rückert. Their enthusiasm for South American music is one they share with many musicians throughout jazz history. For their program “Con Alma” (“With Soul”), they have selected not only works by South American composers but also pieces by Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, and others, who, like them, connect their approach to this musical world through jazz.

The Intergalactic Cello Quartet

Our EP "LEAP ONE" is available on these download and streaming platforms: album.link

Dave Haughey (USA) | Jeremy Harman (USA) | Stijn Kuppens (BE) | Gunther Tiedemann (D) |
Great to record this music with some of the most inspiring colleagues on this planet! Website
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CD: Kreuzüber Bach II

Jazz and improvisations on J. S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 2 - the new CD "Kreuzüber Bach II" will be published October 1st 2020: Shop...
Michael Villmow and Gunther Tiedemann cultivate their musical friendship since 2003 and performed at places like the Pavillon by Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona or the Cologne Cathedral. After their CD "Kreuzüber Bach" and the Cello Suite No. 1 they now present a fresh view on Cello Suite No. 2 including the original Bach movements and corresponding duo improvisations with saxophone and cello or church organ. Original compostions by the two musicians are rounding off the album.
The album will be ready for download on iTunes and Amazon - and for streaming on several platforms.

Cologne String Big Band feat. Jeremy Harman, cello (USA)

Streicher Bigband der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, director: Gunther Tiedemann
Jeremy Harman is Associate Professor of Cello at Berklee College of Music in Boston, cellist of the Sirius Quartet, and an improviser and composer active in jazz and across a wide range of popular music. Since 2020, he has been the Artistic Director of the New Directions Cello Festival. The program features compositions and arrangements by Jeremy Harman and Gunther Tiedemann.

Live Videos: YouTube-Playlist

Concerts with
Yaniel Matos (Cuba/Brasil)

Gunther Tiedemann - David Plate Duo featuring Yaniel Matos (cello, piano, vocals)
In this trio they follow their passion for Latin-American music and Jazz, mostly playing original compostions by the three musicians. Read more...

Review (German) on NRWjazz.net...
Live video on YouTube...

Cologne String Big Band feat. Yaniel Matos

Streicher Bigband der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln | Director: Gunther Tiedemann | Sonntag | 2. Februar 2020 | 18.00 Uhr | Loft Köln | www.hfmt-koeln.de |

Rio Cello 2019

In August 2019 Gunther Tiedemann was invited to the 25th festival Rio Cello in Rio de Janeiro playing solo and concerts with the violinist David Johnson, cellists Yaniel Matos and David Haughey, the Rio Cello Jazz Cello Quartet and the Rio Cello Ensemble - works by Villa-Lobos, Gunther Tiedemann, David Haughey a.o. - and the cello ensemble in Volta Redonda.

New Directions Cello Festival 2017 2018 2019 2023

2023: Workshop with Gunther Tiedemann at the 29th New Directions Cello Festival 23. - 25.06.2023 @Smith College Northampton/MA (USA)

2019: Workshops with Gunther Tiedemann at the 25th New Directions Cello Festival 21. - 23.06.2019 @Berklee College of Music Boston (USA)

2018: Gunther Tiedemann is Co-Director of the first European edition of the New Directions Cello Festival 2018 July 13 - 15 in Köln (Cologne) in co-operation with Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, WDR 3, Jeunesses Musicales NRW - and more partners. www.newdirectionscello.org.

Live videos from the New Directions Cello Festival 2017 at Ithaca (New York) with the duo Tiedemann & Rückert: YouTube-Playlist.

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