RICHARD SCHINKEL WITZEL MAGES

In the organizer's words:

Marcel Richard - vocals, bass | Marcus Schinkel - keys | Reiner Witzel - saxes | Klaus Mages - drums, percussion, singing saw

Klaus Mages
Cologne-based "drum diplomat" Klaus Mages, whose musical style lies somewhere between improvised music and ethno, has toured Europe, the CIS states, Asia, North and South America and North Africa, including for the Goethe Institute with award-winning formations and hit bands (Trio Rio, Yarinistan, Rainbirds, Pata Masters, a Touch of Flamenco).
Klaus Mages works as a percussionist and composer. He studied ethnology, musicology and Latin at the University of Erlangen and percussion at the Cologne University of Music. This was followed by scholarships in New York and Banff (School Of Fine Arts, Canada).
Tours in Europe, CIS, Asia, North and South America, North Africa, Australia, Singapore and Indonesia on behalf of the Goethe Institute, with award-winning jazz, world music and pop formations, including TRIO RIO Hit: New York Rio Tokyo, RAINBIRDS - (Hit: Blueprint of my lover),YARINISTAN - Orienthit:Lorke Lorke, PATA MASTERS, A TOUCH OF FLAMENCO....
As a soloist and composer, Klaus Mages has composed music for the theater at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and the Theater Bonn, among others. At the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus Klaus Mages composed and performed in: "Menschenfeind", "Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten", "Schneider Wibbel" and now in "In 80Tagen um die Welt". At the Landestheater Innsbruck: Kasimir and Karoline. He has worked as part of the team for directors such as Michael Simon, Frank Hofmann, Igor Bauersima, Karin Beier, Nicolas Stemann, Johannes Schütz ...
He has also worked on radio play productions for WDR, SWF, HR, DLF.
He has appeared in productions by Dominique Horwitz, Tommy Engel (Bläck Fööß), Gerd Köster (Piano has been drinking), Singende Säge with Hubert von Goisern ...
Percussionist Klaus Mages (TRIO RIO, RAINBIRDS, YARINISTAN, Gerd Köster, Tierra Negra, Dominique Horwitz...) combines theater music, vaudeville, world music and trash with beautiful jazz. To keep his brain nice and supple, he plays the bass pedal with his left foot and vocalizes with the opening of his mouth.

Reiner Witzel
Düsseldorf saxophonist Reiner Witzel has been an active voice on the international jazz scene for many years.
He studied music at the Cologne University of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. Reiner Witzel was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and has received numerous prizes, including the Hennessy Jazz Award.
He has taught at the music academies in Maastricht, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt. He is also a guest lecturer at universities, gives seminars and works internationally as a coach for music groups and theaters and as a consultant for agencies and instrument companies.
As a musician, Witzel has worked with Richie Beirach, Alex Sipiagin, Dave Kikoski, but also with David Liebman, Fela Kuti, Maceo Parker, The Supremes, Third World, Marla Glen, Defunkt, the HR-Bigband, Xavier Naidoo, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Vinx, Sasha, Fury in the Slaughterhouse, Udo Lindenberg and others. He is a co-founder and member of the Jazz Ensemble Düsseldorf (JE:D).[1] He has released recordings with his bands Reiner Witzel Group, Witzel`s Venue, Drei im roten Kreis and Datfunk aus Athen. Concerts and tours have taken him through Europe and other continents, and he has performed at festivals in Montreux, Montevideo, New York, San Jose, Odessa, Xi'an, Yaounde and Zanzibar, among others.
As a composer, Witzel has released compositions on a number of albums (with Vernon Reid, David Sanborn and Lew Soloff as guest musicians) and has written title music for WDR television series such as Westart, Auf Ihrer Seite, Rundum gesund, Tag sieben and Wunderschöne Regionen, title music for the TV broadcasts of World Youth Day and the Pope's visit in 2005, complete audio design for the Eins Festival channel, title song for the Club of Budapest and Cirque Buffon. His big band program "Funk, Jazz & Global Beats - The Music of Reiner Witzel" has been performed in various countries. As an actor, he played the leading role in the musical Der Zauberwald (1998), among others.
In addition to his work as a musician, Witzel also works as a photographer. He has taken portraits of Lionel Richie and Roger Cicero, among others, and has photographed for the Rheinische Post and Sonic.

Marcus Schinkel
Marcus Schinkel is a jazz pianist, rock keyboardist, composer and arranger. He studied jazz and classical piano from 1988 to 1993 at the Conservatorium voor de Kunsten Arnhem (Netherlands) with Rob van den Broeck (jazz) and Chris Seger (classical) and also took lessons with Richie Beirach, Lee Konitz, Philip Catherine and Walter Norris. He was a member of the Bundesjazzorchester (BuJazzO) under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer. While still a student, he founded the Marcus Schinkel Trio with drummer Wim de Vries (The Drumbassadors) and electric and double bass player Bas Rietmeijer.
The first trio CD "First of a Million Tones" was recorded in 1996 with guest musicians Eric Vloeimans and Peter Weniger. In 1999, Schinkel arranged compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven for his classical jazz program "News from Beethoven" for the farewell of the German Bundestag in Bonn, with which the trio received an invitation for concerts in North and South Vietnam in 2000. The CD "News from Beethoven" was released in 2004 and "9 Symphonies" in 2009, in which Schinkel arranged the 9 themes of the Beethoven symphonies for the Marcus Schinkel Trio and the Indigo String Quartet. With this Beethoven Meets Jazz project, the trio has performed several times at international festivals, including the Beethovenfest Bonn. In 2015, the trio presented the Crossover Beethoven program with the new electric and double bass player Fritz Roppel, who replaced Bas Rietmeijer, who was ill. In 2016, the trio performed at the Bonn Jazz Festival with saxophonist Ernie Watts, and the following year at the Düsseldorf Jazz Rally.
2017 saw the premiere of the new program New Pictures at an Exhibition, a tribute to Keith Emerson and the progressive rock era of Emerson, Lake and Palmer based on the composition Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky. The trio is joined here by singer Johannes Kuchta and a light and laser show. In addition to grand piano and synthesizer, Schinkel also uses more unusual instruments such as keytar, theremin, melodica, laser harp and ribbon controller. In the same year, Schinkel gave concerts in Honduras as a soloist and with the Victoriano Lopez Youth Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Montes, playing Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto, but improvising the cadenza passages with elements from jazz and Latin. Concerts with gypsy jazz guitarist Joscho Stephan as a guest soloist led to the joint album Classic Meets Gypsy (2019).
Marcus Schinkel has accompanied the German cabaret artist and singer Nessi Tausendschön and various jazz and pop singers. Worked as a pianist, composer and arranger for Theater Bonn from 2009 to 2015, since 2016 for Schauspiel Düsseldorf. He has worked with Pee Wee Ellis, Susan Weinert, Pete York, Kim Wilde, Charlie Mariano, members of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Inga Lühning, Frederik Köster, Markus Stockhausen, Bodek Janke, Martell Beigang, Ulla Oster and Paul Kuhn. In addition to Europe, Schinkel has performed in the USA, Russia, the Caribbean, Jordan, Turkey and Tunisia.

Marcel Richard
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Marcel Richard is a drummer, double bass player, bandleader and composer. He won the Jugend Jazzt competition at the age of 17 and played in the LandesJugendJazzOrchester NRW for many years. Marcel Richard has toured with the orchestra to Turkey, Belarus, Spain, South Korea, Greece and France.
Coming from a family of musicians, he began his training with Sperie Karas and studied jazz percussion at the Folkwang Musikhochschule in Essen with Thomas Alkier, Hugo Read and Peter Herborn, deepening his studies with Prof. Henning Berg from the Musikhochschule in Cologne and bassist Gunnar Plümer.
His stylistically wide-ranging interests gave him the opportunity to work with jazz artists such as Paul Heller, Niels Klein and Pablo Held, but also with hip-hop acts such as Flowin Immo and Grand Agent. He has also performed in several musical revues at Dortmund's Hansa Theater. He worked as a drummer and producer for the hip-hop act Clueso (FOUR MUSIC) for two years.
Since 2003, he has formed the trio WBR with award-winning pianist Florian Weber and bassist Nico Brandenburg. He works together with the Cologne trombonist and composer Ben Degen in the Degen/Richard 5tet.
Marcel Richard has been studying double bass at the Cologne University of Music with Prof. Dieter Manderscheid since October 2006.
Marcel Richter has been the new bass player with the Paveiern since 2025.

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