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Hugo Siegmeth is a European jazz musician who naturally uses classical music as a field for improvisation. Born in Banat (Arad/Romania), he emigrated to Germany in 1976. While still studying at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and composing with Stefan Zorzor, the saxophonist received the Bavarian Jazz Promotion Prize in 1998 and the New Generation Award from Bavarian Radio in 2001.

As a soloist, Siegmeth distinguished himself as one of the most independent representatives on the saxophone due to his characteristic coloring in the area of tension between jazz and classical music.

In 2015 he was awarded the Music Promotion Prize of the City of Munich.

His concert activities as a soloist and artistic director have led to numerous radio and CD productions as well as appearances at international festivals and stages such as Montreux (Jazz Festival), New York (Lincoln Center), Singapore (New Arts Festival), Linz (Ars Electronica), for tours through North and South America, Australia, Europe as well as through Central Asia and Sudan on behalf of the Goethe-Institut.

He can be heard in such diverse formations as the Hugo Siegmeth Ensemble, in a duo with the lutenist Axel Wolf as well as with Clark Terry, Michael Wollny, the Ensemble Sarband, the Bavarian Jazz Group, the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin, and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz as well as the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, both conducted by Markus Poschner, or in the contemporary opera The Soldiers conducted by Kirill Petrenko at the Munich State Opera.

Since 2006, Hugo Siegmeth has been composing in continuous collaboration with Robert Papst (Scoreworx Studios) for film scores such as "Tell me where the beautiful ones are..." (Berlinale, 2008), "Asiatic Secrets" (Arte, 2013) or Kill me today, tomorrow I'm sick! (Montreal World Film Festival, 2018).

Since 2014, Siegmeth has been the artistic director of the teachers Big Band Bayern with lively international concert activities at schools.

Invitations as a lecturer at master classes and workshops lead to the "Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth", to the Universities of Regensburg and Munich and - with a focus on intercultural exchange and youth development - to Tunis, Astana, Ulan Bator, Lima, Santiago de Chile, Sibiu and Bagamoyo.

• Nomination German Record Critics' Award for the album "NOW" 2019Silver Zenith, Montreal World Film Festival, Soundtrack "Kill me today..." 2018Music sponsorship award of the city of Munich 2015German World Music Award, member of the "Ensemble Sarband" 2008Shortlisted for the German Film Prize for Music with "Mörderischer Frieden" 20081st prize winner "New Generations" of the Bayerischer Rundfunk 2001Bavarian Jazz Prize 1998

WINTER JOURNEY – Hunstein | wolf | Siegmeth

(Ohems Classics 2020)

s pure life – Bavarian Jazz Group

(Village Pond Records 2019)

NOW – Axel Wolf & Hugo Siegmeth

(Oehms Classics 2019)

FLOW – Axel Wolf & Hugo Siegmeth

(Oehms Classics 2014)

PASSACAGLIA - Hugo Siegmeth Ensemble

(Village Pond Records 2011)

LA BORDEI – Hugo Siegmeth Ensemble

(Village Pond Records 2009)

Red Onions - Hugo Siegmeth Quartet

(ACT 2006)

Oracle – Hugo Siegmeth Quartet

(Village Pond Records 2005)

Live at the Jazzclub Unterfahrt

– Hugo Siegmeth Quintet (Edition Collage 2001)

On the go

– Tap paint (Pantaleon 2013)

An Arabian Passion according to J.S. Bach

– Sarband (JARO 2008)

Songs closer to silence

– Zollsound Chamber Orchestra (Enja 2003)

Clark

– Summit Jazz Orchestra feat. Clark Terry (Edition Collage 2000)

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Our Germany. Unity, Justice, Freedom

(A. Oster, documentary, ARD 2019)

Kill me today, tomorrow I'm sick

(J. Schroeder / T. Streck, Cinema, 2018)

Ernst Grube – contemporary witness.

(Christel Priemer, cinema documentary, 2017)

90 minutes is not a life(N. Golüke, documentary, ARD 2015)

Carnival children(G. Scholz, documentary, cinema 2014)

Secrets of Asia - The most beautiful national parks(R. Berry, 5-part documentary, ARTE 2013)

Landauer(N. Golüke, documentary, BR 2013)

Faces of Islam

(H. Schuller, 4-part documentary, ARTE/ARD 2010)

Living under suspicion - The case of Harry Wörz(G. Scholz, documentary, ARD 2010)

Today was the future then

(G. Scholz, documentary cinema, 2010)

Master class - A year with the opera professionals of tomorrow

(O. Hagemann, documentary ARTE 2009)

Mohenjo Daro(H. Schuller, documentary, ARD/ARTE 2008)

Tell me where the beauties are...(G. Scholz, documentary, cinema 2008)

Eye to Eye- A German Film History

(M. Althen, H.H. Prinzler, Documentary Cinema 2008)

Murdering peace(R. Schweiger, feature film, cinema 2007)

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