Bio

Simon Stockhausen was born on the 5th of June 1967 near Cologne. At the age of five he commenced his musical education (piano, saxophone, drums, synthesizer, composition) and began performing in his father?s works at the age of 12. After his final exams 1986 he started touring the world with the Sto...Read more...ckhausen ensemble and also co-produced the electronic music for two of the operas by his father. In 1996 their collaboration stopped.

The successful collaboration with his brother Markus Stockhausen over the last 20 years in the field of jazz and improvised music generated numerous CD-releases on record labels like ECM, EMI, LARGO, two compositions for the Cologne philharmonic and soundtracks for film- and theatreproductions.

In 2005 they published their last album nonDUALITY.

Simon has also composed music for the Ensemble Modern Point of no Return 1993, Berliner Geschichten 1999, for the Musikfabrik NRW Parametrics 1993, the Venice Biennale 1993, the IMD in Darmstadt Brandn?chte 1996 and the WDR Bigband - JUBILEE 1996 and INNER CIRCLES 1997 and wrote chamber music for various ensembles.

Since 1998 Simon has composed and arranged music for many german theatres, the Berliner Ensemble, Schauspielhaus Duesseldorf, Staatstheater Mainz, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Nationaltheater Mannheim and worked with directors like Peter Palitzsch, Andras Friksay and Burkhard C. Kosminski. He also did musical recitals with Hannah Shygullah (KRONOS KAIROS) and David Bennent (Gilgamesch 2000)

In 1999 he founded the band MIR together with Manos Tsangaris(CD-Release on Academy Label/Edel Records) and he is frequently involved in Manos music theatre-works as Co-Composer, Sounddesigner and player, most recently in the pieces I only appear to be dead for the danish theatre company Hotel Pro Forma(2005) as well as Centralstation (2006) and
Botenstoffe - Orestie (2007) for the Cologne theatre.

Besides the compositional work he has performed numerous concerts as a keyboard and saxophone player in various constellations, also with the WDR Bigband in Lalo Shifrin's piece ESPERANTO (2000) and James Morrison, with whom he founded the Band ON THE EDGE in 2003 and toured through Europe and Australia.

Simon has also written many filmscores for documentary, fiction and short films and frequently works together with filmmaker Amos Gitai. He frequently has encounters with performance-artists, most recently with Lucy&Jorge Orta in their Performance-cycle OPERA.tion Life Nexus and the persian artist Misha Bolourie in his light-erformance
1.000.000 lights for Berlin.

Since 2002/03 he has also performed contemporary music with the Sharoun-Ensemble and the Berlin philharmonic orchestra playing music by Heiner Goebbels (Surrogate Cities/from a diary) and Peter E?tv?s(ATLANTIS).

In 2004 he founded the Band ROYCE together with the saxophone player Christian Weidner and their album THE FIRST is now available.

He also composed the music for the cinema-documentary Trip to Asia - The Quest for Harmony - a film by Thomas Grube and Boomtown Media.Hide more...