Frameworks Festival 2023: Ralph Heidel & Finn Ronsdorf
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Born in the town of Wangen in the Allgäu region of Bavaria, Ralph Heidel studied jazz saxophone and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. After graduating, he became increasingly involved in music production and electronic music. Following his debut album, Moments of Resonance, with his seven-piece ensemble Homo Ludens, the multi-instrumentalist found himself on festival stages such as the ÜberJazz in Hamburg and the xJazz in Berlin. He produced the music for the plays Empathy (Schwere Reiter München 2018), Fahrenheit 451 (Berliner Ensemble 2020) and Dreckskinder (Volksbühne Berlin 2020). He works as a producer, composer and arranger, mainly in Berlin and Munich.
This event is in the past.
Born in the town of Wangen in the Allgäu region of Bavaria, Ralph Heidel studied jazz saxophone and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. After graduating, he became increasingly involved in music production and electronic music. Following his debut album, Moments of Resonance, with his seven-piece ensemble Homo Ludens, the multi-instrumentalist found himself on festival stages such as the ÜberJazz in Hamburg and the xJazz in Berlin. He produced the music for the plays Empathy (Schwere Reiter München 2018), Fahrenheit 451 (Berliner Ensemble 2020) and Dreckskinder (Volksbühne Berlin 2020). He works as a producer, composer and arranger, mainly in Berlin and Munich.
Finn Ronsdorf is a ballad singer, composer and artist. According to Vogue, he is “on the way to becoming one of Germany’s most interesting pop stars with his almost philosophical approach”, and the WELT simply calls him a “Gesamtkunstwerk”. Ronsdorf’s music is a mix of soul, blues and pop, emotionally between tragedy and triumph. It tells of the total surrender to desire and the celebration of the myth of life. His performances combine German expressionism and religious humility.
Finn Ronsdorf was born in Wuppertal in 1998, the son of an artist and a theologian. Raised in the woods and mountains of the Black Forest, he moved to Berlin in 2017. “Listening to his voice takes me to some place a hundred years ago.” (KCRW Radio)
