Windwerk
Biography Windwerk
WINDWERK
... is the German word for the blower of a church organ. Both instruments, the saxophone and the church organ, operate with wind.
So they called their ensemble WINDWERK:
Martin Sebastian Schmitt, Saxophone
1969 in St.Wendel
Jazz studies (Saxophone, German flute) at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz under
Peter Reiter, Jörg Kaufmann and Rainer Heute, Jazz Composition and Arrangement course under Prof. Joachim Ullrich and Prof. Ed Partyka
Masters courses and workshops with Joe Lovano, Benny Golson, Roman Schwaller, Vincent Herring, Lee Konitz, Herb Geller, George Robert, Gunter Hampel, Dick Oatts and Peter Herbolzheimer Award-winner at the international jazz event “generations 2000” in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) Freelance composer, arranger, instrumentalist, conductor
Saxophone teacher at the Wiesbaden College of Music and Art and at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz
www.msschmitt-musik.de
Volker Krebs, Organ
1974 in Wiesbaden
Studied Catholic Church Music A at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz under Gabriel Dessauer, Prof. Gerhard Gnann, Prof. Hans-Jürgen Kaiser and Prof. Alfred Müller
Other studies in Louis Robillard’s Master Class (Lyon),
under Jean-Pierre Leguay (Dijon) Master Courses with Oliver Latry, Guy Bovet, Heinz Wunderlich, Wolfgang Zerrer
Scholarship winner of the Richard Wagner Association (1999), the DAAD (2001) and Johannes-Gutenberg University (2002)
Deanery cantor in Bleialf since 2004
