Ernst Reijseger

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Ernst Reijseger, Moers Festival 2007
Ernst Reijseger, Moers Festival 2007

Ernst Reijseger (b. November 13, 1954, Bussum) is a Dutch cellist and composer. He specializes in jazz, improvised music, and contemporary classical music and often gives solo concerts. He has worked with Louis Sclavis, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg, Gerry Hemingway, Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Mangelsdorff, Franco D'Andrea, Joëlle Léandre, Georg Gräwe, Trilok Gurtu, and Mola Sylla, and has done several world music projects working with musicians from Sardinia, Turkey, Iran, Senegal, and Argentina.

He has made numerous recordings, both as solo cellist and with other groups, and has been the subject of a documentary film. He has also written several film scores, including that for the 2005 Werner Herzog film The Wild Blue Yonder.

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[edit] Films scores

Both scores were recorded in the same sessions with Reijseger, Mola Sylla, and the Voches De Sardinia.

Werner Herzog, who lead the musicians, gave them simple instructions as to what the music should be like, including "Make space.".

Reijseger later commented: "I had very little to do with the overall outcome of the music, it was them, they did it."

[edit] Quotes On...

"He is a magnificent cellist, and he can do anything, anything on his cello. He could play the civil war, the American Civil war on his cello." - Werner Herzog

[edit] Solo and Group Work

Reijseger's most well known solo album is Colla Parte, which he recorded in a room of a small villa which he was staying in on a trip to Sardinia, this would be the same trip that he would meet the Voches De Sardinia.

He has done several recordings with Mola Sylla, including Requiem For a Dying Planet, and Janna.

Reijseger is also a member of the Amsterdam String Trio, with Ernst Glerum, Maurice Horsthuis, and himself; and another trio, simply called Graewe, Reijseger, Hemingway, with Georg Graewe, Himself, and Gerry Hemingway.

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