TERMINESaxophonist and composer Joachim Gies was born in Bonn, and studied music, literature and politics in Berlin. His saxophone playing draws on extremely varied sound structures: delicate, richly coloured, even fragile. This experimental approach to listening and hearing presents audiences with unexpected layers of sound.
2009: Concerts in Tel Aviv (Israel); performance at the international music festival ROARING HOOVES (Mongolia); concerts at the Ulan Bator Philharmonic Hall, in the Gobi desert and in Buddhist monasteries. Shimmering, the latest CD by the trio SOUND/BODY/CELLS, will be released this fall.
2008: concerts in the Philharmonic Hall in Ulan-Ude (Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation) with Buryatian artists. Performance with Israeli vocalist Ronni Gilla at the Literature Festival of the Berlin Academy of the Arts. 2008: performances in the Philharmonic Hall in Ulan-Ude (Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation) with Buryatian artists. Performance with Israeli vocalist Ronni Gilla at the Literature Festival of the Berlin Academy of the Arts. Performance of musical scores of Franz Kafka in Tscheboxary (Chuvash Republic, Russian Federation) in October 2008.
2007: Film score for the documentary film produced by Deutsche Welle TV “Eine phantastische Reise oder Auf Wiedersehen, Cézanne!“ which was shown at the New National Gallery in Berlin.
CDs for Leo Records, including the 2007 recording of “Tenderness of Stones” with vocalist Lauren Newton. Scores published by Hermann Löffler Verlag, Ries and Erler in Berlin.
Productions of radio plays with Jörg Jannings, music scores for literary texts, musical accompaniment for readings by Tina Engel, Peter Fitz, Peter Härtling, Werner Rehm, Gerd Wameling and Hanns Zischler.
Concerts in Europe and Asia with Joëlle Lèandre, Lauren Newton, Cecil Taylor, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Johannes and Matthias Bauer.
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