Tilman Ehrhorn is a producer, composer, saxophone/reed player and sound designer.
Besides teaching, giving jazz clinics and regular work in theater, tv-, radio-, and cd-productions he has established himself as a composer as well as a performing artist in clubs, festivals and concert tours all over the world.Before he graduated with a music degree from colleges in The Netherlands and in Germany he also took music lessons with highly reputed jazz artists in New York/USA as well as in Europe and took part in many workshops.
He has collaborated with commissioners like Goethe Institut, Auswärtiges Amt (German Office Of Foreign Affairs), Landesmusikrat Niedersachsen (Council Of Music of the County of Lower Saxony), with Ensembles like NDR Bigband, Hamburger Sinfoniker, L’Atelier d’Orchestre and with musicians like Wayne Shorter, Brian Blade, Nils Wogram, Albert Mangelsdorff etc.
Lately he has concentrated his efforts on a solo project in electronic music, as well as continuing to work as a jazz musician. Since samplers and synthesizers are the only source of sound, it evolves in a completely different way to jazz and improvised music, the major focus being the development of the individual elements of sound and their function within the composition.
Among appearing on many jazz records as a sideman, he regulary carries out some remix tasks as well as doing electronic soundwork for cd-productions. Within the last two years he has released two critically acclaimed solo albums.
Besides teaching, giving jazz clinics and regular work in theater, tv-, radio-, and cd-productions he has established himself as a composer as well as a performing artist in clubs, festivals and concert tours all over the world.Before he graduated with a music degree from colleges in The Netherlands and in Germany he also took music lessons with highly reputed jazz artists in New York/USA as well as in Europe and took part in many workshops.
He has collaborated with commissioners like Goethe Institut, Auswärtiges Amt (German Office Of Foreign Affairs), Landesmusikrat Niedersachsen (Council Of Music of the County of Lower Saxony), with Ensembles like NDR Bigband, Hamburger Sinfoniker, L’Atelier d’Orchestre and with musicians like Wayne Shorter, Brian Blade, Nils Wogram, Albert Mangelsdorff etc.
Lately he has concentrated his efforts on a solo project in electronic music, as well as continuing to work as a jazz musician. Since samplers and synthesizers are the only source of sound, it evolves in a completely different way to jazz and improvised music, the major focus being the development of the individual elements of sound and their function within the composition.
Among appearing on many jazz records as a sideman, he regulary carries out some remix tasks as well as doing electronic soundwork for cd-productions. Within the last two years he has released two critically acclaimed solo albums.