Thomas Lehn
Since the early 1980s Thomas Lehn has been working as a
performer, interpreter, composer and improviser 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 fuer Musik in Detmold (Germany), he moved
to Cologne and studied both classical and jazz piano at the Hochschule
fuer Musik Koeln.
Based on his background as an interpreting and
improvising pianist in classical-, contemporary and jazz-music, he
developed his individually language in live-electronic music. The
electronic equipment he uses consists of analogue synthesizers of the
late 1960s. The facilities of these instruments - e. g. to modify
electronic sounds very directly as well as to combine and to 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 its performance. In 2000 his first solo
CD 'Feldstaerken' was released on German label random acoustics.
His present ensemble activities include duetts with Gerry Hemingway and
Marcus Schmickler, Guenter Christmann, Eugene Chadbourne, Paul Lovens
and Raymond Strid. Moreover he collaborates in trios with Tim
Hodgkinson and Roger Turner (KONK PACK), Phil Minton and Axel Doerner
(TOOT), Radu Malfatti and Phil Durrant ('beinhaltung' and 'dach' ),
Peter van Bergen and Gert-Jan Prins (E-RAX), Andreas Wagner and Guido
Hafner (Die Klangraeumer), John Bucher and Andy «Ex» Moor, Hannes
Loeschel and Josef Novotny (ANTASTEN) and with Wolfgang Fuchs and
Fabrizio Spera (LINGUA). Larger ensembles are VARIO 34 (a sextet with
Guenter Christmann, Alexander Frangenheim, Mats Gustafsson, Paul Lovens
and Christian Munthe), GLASSBAND (a quintet with Phil Wachsmann, Evan
Parker, Alexander Frangenheim and Roger Turner) and last, but not least
MIMEO - the Music in Movement Electronic Orchestra, which includes 12
representatives of contemporary electronic music from 7 European
nations.
more info here: www.thomaslehn.com
Thomas appears on the following SOFA-releases
- TOOT - Phil Minton, Thomas Lehn, Axel Dörner
«ONE» (analogue synthesizer)