Gernot, Blume
Biography
Born:
Country: Bingen, Germany
Studies: California Institute of the Arts (B.F.A., M.F.A.)
Teachers:
Born in Bingen on the Rhine, composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist Gernot Blume grew up with classical piano music as well as Irish, Yiddish and Eastern European folk music. He learned guitar, mandolin, percussion, flutes and harp. 1988 he moved to Los Angeles, California in order to srudy world music at CalArts. There he studied Indian classical music and thereafter ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan, where he earned a doctorate with a dissertation on the American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. For five years he taught as Assistant Prof. of Music at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. In 2003 he returned to Germany where he lives with his wife, Julie Spencer and their children, and works as a freelance musician, composer and lecturer. Under his name, and in collaboration with his wife, he has released many CDs.[1]:
Works for Percussion
Flying Nowhere - Vibraphone; Piano
Shinkansen - Percussion; Trombone; Piano
Sprachlos - Mixed Chorus; Percussion
Why - Marimba Quartet
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