Klaus Gesing
Composer
- Website
- www.klausgesing.com
Multi-instrumentalist Klaus Gesing is a writer, player, bandleader and teacher on the vanguard of jazz. Professionally trained at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague in Jazz (John Ruocco) and Classical (Leo van Oostrom) Saxophone, he finished his studies with a special remark for his compositions and artistic expression. He had additional studies with David Liebman. As a composer – next to writing the main body of the musical material for his own projects and contributing extensively to the music of the ECM releases with Winstone / Gesing / Venier – Klaus Gesing‘s commissions have included a music soundtrack composed for the the Stadtmuseum Gmunden, Austria. He has also composed a soundtrack to the 1928 silent film, “Joan of Arc” by the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, in collaboration with italian organist and director Paolo Paroni. In 2022 he concluded the work on the music for the Swiss documentary "Bratsch - Ein Dorf macht Schule" by the Swiss Film director Norbert Wiedmer.
Filmography
(a selection)
Composer
- 2023
- Bratsch – Ein Dorf macht Schule by Norbert Wiedmer
- 2018
- Das Leben vor dem Tod by Gregor Frei
- 2015
- Frei von allem by Christian Taro Müller, Valentin Brotbek