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born in 1968 in Speyer (Germany), started playing the
guitar at the age of nine. Initially he took private lessons. From 1988 to
1993 he studied classical guitar and jazz at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
in Amsterdam. At present he lives in Cologne and is active as bandleader and
sideman. He combines classical and jazz- and rock-oriented techniques on
acoustic and electric guitars to realize his own tone language,
improvisation and composition. His influences are the classical guitar
repertoire of the 20th century, jazz and improvised music, the history of
rock, electronic music and the music of Eastern Europe and the Orient.
Frank Wingold won the Best Soloist Prize and his trio ‘Agog’ was
the winning band at the European Jazz Contest in Brussels in 1993. In 2002
‘Agog’ won a competition during the North Sea Jazz Festival in
the Hague. In 1995 he won First Prize at the
‘Ruhr-Rock-Festival’ in Bochum (with ‘Martina Gassmann
& Band’).
Frank Wingold is also a member of the ‘Underkarl’ group, one of
the Europe’s most famous young ensembles, which played at the Jazzfest
Berlin in 1997 and tours regularly in Europe and beyond.
He has also been involved in
a wide range of other projects, such as the recording of live radio plays
for actors and band and the production of Louis Andriessen’s Orpheus
in Amsterdam and of Georg Hajdu’s opera Der Sprung. He performed the
solo part in Theo Loevendie’s Bons for small orchestra and improviser.
He is a member of the electric guitar duo ‘Shraeng’, which plays
contemporary ‘classical’ music written specially for it by,
among others, Moritz Eggert and Theodor Pauss. He wrote and recorded
soundtracks to several films, including 040 by Volker Sattel (a film without
words about Hamburg).
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