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Ernst Reijseger
Ernst Reijseger
	Ernst Reijseger, Moers Festival 2007
Background information
Born	13 November 1954 (age 70); Bussum, Netherlands
Genres	Jazz, Avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation contemporary classical ⋅
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instrument	Cello

Ernst Reijseger (born 13 November 1954) is a Dutch cellist and composer. He specializes in avant-garde jazz, free 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, as well as the Netherlands-based group Boi Akih.

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 scores for a number of Werner Herzog films.

Film scores

2000 - Ajax: Hark the Herald Angel Sings
2004 - The White Diamond
2005 - The Wild Blue Yonder
2008 - The Unforbidden City
2009 - My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
2010 - It's Already Summer
2010 - Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2013 - Mongools goud – Mongolian gold
2014 - Voor Emilia
2015 - Prejudice
2016 - Salt and Fire
2019 - Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019 - Family Romance, LLC
2020 - Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

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

Solo and group work

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

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

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

He was also a member of the ICP Orchestra (or Instant Composers Pool) for many years, as well as the Clusone Trio with Michael Moore and Han Bennink.

Discography

Mistakes (Broken, 1979) with Sean Bergin
Taiming (Hummeloord, 1981)
Cellotape & Scotchtape (Data, 1982) with Alan "Gunga" Purves
Dutch Masters (Soul Note, 1987) with Misha Mengelberg, Steve Lacy, George Lewis & Han Bennink
Ta (Nimbus, 1987) with Alan "Gunga" Purves
Sonic Fiction (Hat Art, 1989) with Georg Gräwe and Gerry Hemingway
Noci...Strani Frutti (Leo, 1991) with Pino Minafra and Han Bennink
Et on ne Parle pas du Temps (FMP, 1995) with Louis Sclavis
Colla Parte (Winter & Winter, 1997)
Colla Voche (Winter & Winter, 1999) with Tenore and Concordu de Orosei
I Love You So Much It Hurts (Winter & Winter, 2002) with Franco D'Andrea
Janna (Winter & Winter, 2003) with Mola Sylla and Serigne C.M. Gueye
Continuum (Winter & Winter, 2006) with Georg Graewe and Gerry Hemingway
Requiem for a Dying Planet (Winter & Winter, 2006) - soundtrack music for Werner Herzog's The White Diamond and The Wild Blue Yonder
Do You Still (Winter & Winter, 2007)
Tell Me Everything (Winter & Winter, 2009)
Zembrocal Musical (Winter & Winter, 2010) with Groove Lélé
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Winter & Winter, 2011)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Winter & Winter, 2011) - soundtrack music for Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Down Deep (Winter & Winter, 2013) - with Harmen Fraanje and Mola Sylla
Feature (Winter & Winter, 2014)
Count Till Zen (Winter & Winter, 2015) - with Harmen Fraanje and Mola Sylla
The Volcano Symphony (Winter & Winter, 2016)
We Were There (Just Listen, 2020) - with Harmen Fraanje and Mola Sylla