PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS

«LAST EXIT MULTIVERSE» IS A RECORDING PROJECT STEPHAN KRAUSE-BANTZER BROUGHT TO LIFE IN 2022. FOR EACH RELEASE, HE INVITES NEW MUSICAL PARTNERS TO JOIN HIM IN EXPLORING UNKNOWN SONIC SPACES.

THE FIRST ALBUM, «LAST EXIT MULTIVERSE VOL. 1», WAS CREATED TOGETHER WITH HIS FATHER, ORGANIST, PIANIST & COMPOSER CLAUS BANTZER. WHAT BEGAN AS INDIVIDUAL & DUO IMPROVISATIONS DEVELOPED LAYER BY LAYER IN THE STUDIO INTO A COMPOSITION: SOUNDS WERE OVERLAID, TRANSFORMED, DENSIFIED, DISMANTLED & RECONNECTED IN NEW WAYS.

«LAST EXIT MULTIVERSE VOL. 1» WAS RELEASED BY HUTH RECORDS IN 2022.

STEPHAN KRAUSE-BANTZER IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE ELBTONAL PERCUSSION. THE HAMBURG-BASED QUARTET MET WHILE STUDYING AT THE HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC & THEATRE & HAS BEEN ACTIVE FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS.

WITH MORE THAN 1,000 CONCERTS, 11 RELEASED ALBUMS & 4 DVDS, ELBTONAL PERCUSSION IS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL & VERSATILE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES OF ITS GENERATION ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE.

THE BCKTRIO CONSISTS OF STEPHAN KRAUSE-BANTZER ON PERCUSSION, CHURCH MUSICIAN & PIANIST CLAUS BANTZER, & JAZZ SAXOPHONIST GABRIEL COBURGER. SAXOPHONE, CHURCH ORGAN & PERCUSSION FORM A RARE TRIO LINE-UP, BRIDGING CLASSICAL SACRED MUSIC, CONTEMPORARY AVANT-GARDE & JAZZ.

FOLLOWING THEIR DEBUT ALBUM CENTRAL PARK (2016), THE TRIO RELEASED THEIR SECOND ALBUM LIVE LIFE (FEAT. GABRIELE HASLER) IN 2021 ON HUTH RECORDS.

«THE BOY HAS WOOD IN HIS BLOOD» – A COMPLIMENT STEPHAN KRAUSE-BANTZER RECEIVED FROM AN OLDER COLLEAGUE AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS THEATRE CAREER. 25 YEARS & AROUND 50 PRODUCTIONS LATER, THEATRE MUSIC HAS BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF HIS ARTISTIC WORK.

DEUTSCHES SCHAUSPIELHAUS HAMBURG

«LAZARUS»
«ALPHABET»
«IM KELLER DER METAPHYSIK»
«DIE BALLADE VOM FLIEGENDEN HOLLÄNDER»

THALIA THEATER

«WOYZECK»
«DER STURM»
«ORESTIE I–IV»
«KASIMIR UND KAROLINE»

KRAUSE-BANTZER’S SOLO PERFORMANCES MOVE BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY AVANT-GARDE, ELECTRONIC MUSIC & EXPRESSIVE PERCUSSION IMPROVISATION. HE COMBINES ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS WITH CONCEPTUALISED IMPROVISATIONS & WORKS BY COMPOSERS OF THE HAMBURG SCHOOL – INCLUDING GEORG HAJDU, GREG BELLER, XIAO FU, AIGERIM SEILOVA & STEFAN TROSCHKA.

HIS SOLO WORK BRINGS TOGETHER PERCUSSION, ELECTRONICS & LIVE PROCESSING TO CREATE OPEN SONIC SPACES IN WHICH IMPROVISATION & COMPOSITION FUSE.