Franz Koglmann Musical artist

Franz Koglmann (born 1947) is an Austrian jazz composer. He performs on both the trumpet and flugelhorn in a variety of contexts, most often within avant-garde jazz and third stream contexts. An award-winning composer, Koglmann has performed or recorded with a variety of musicians, including Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Bill Dixon, Georg Gräwe, Andrea Centazzo, Theo Jörgensmann, Wolfgang Reisinger, Enrico Rava, Yitzhak Yedid, Ran Blake, John Lindberg and many others. When the Romanian town of Sibiu commissioned Koglmann to write a piece, he brought together bits from Haydn's 27th symphony with a tape recording of Sibiu native Emil Cioran philosophisizing. Her received 2003 the highest Austrian jazz award, the Hans Koller Prize in category "album of the year".

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 01, 1947
Birth place
Mödling , Austria

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associated musical artist
Peter Herbert
Paul Bley
Yitzhak Yedid
Andrea Centazzo
BackgroundNon vocal instrumentalist
genre
Chamber jazz
Third stream
Avant-garde jazz
instrument
Flugelhorn
Trumpet

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