ULRICH MITZLAFF
Violoncello player (acoustic and electric) & composer

ULRICH MITZLAFF completed his cello studies in the seventies at Tübingen (Germany) with Professor Stefan Zarnescú. Since 1996 he lives at Lisbon, Portugal, where he works as cellist and composer of contemporary and experimental music, improvisation, free-jazz, conceptual composition and sound-art. He collaborates with various artists in multidisciplinary and electro-acoustic projects and he is member of the art-association “granular” (http://www.granular.pt).

He participated in many international festivals like “Lumina 2015” (Museu Paula Rego, Cascais 2015), “Granular Festival” (Lisbon 2015), “Jazz ao Centro” (Coimbra 2015), “XVI Ciclo de Música Contemporánea” (Museo Vostell Malpartida, Cáceres, Spain 2014), “Musica Viva” (Lisbon 2012), “Jazz em Agosto” (Lisbon 2012 and 2010), “Tempo para Criar” (Guimarães – European Capital of Culture 2012), “ImaxinaSons” (Vigo, 2011), “Sonorities” - festival of contemporary music (Belfast, Northern Ireland 2010 and 2005), “Metasonic III” (Lisbon 2010), “Festival LEM Primavera” (Barcelona, 2009), “Festival Portugal and the World” (Brussels 2007), “Metasonic LX” (Lisbon 2006), “Festival Músicas do Mundo” (Sines 2006), “Festival Alkantara” (Lisbon 2006), “CAMP 03 - international festival for electronic music, sound art and visual arts” (Tübingen 2003) and “CAMP 05” (Montemor-o-Novo 2005), “Encontros de Música Experimental- EME” (Setúbal 2000 and 2001), “Ó da Guarda” (Guarda 1999, 2005 and 2008) among many others. 

Video-links
Separados Frutos at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, May 2007:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN12qeHM_7c; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm2hdN20fNY; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjnNReXrk4; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWYNW5g5V60)
Evan Parker Improvisation Collective “Call them Improvisors”, “Sonorities Festival 2010” at Belfast Northern Ireland: https://vimeo.com/55792259
Manuel Guimarães | Ulrich Mitzlaff 
Grass: https://myspace.com/ulrichmitzlaff/video/grass/7946131;
Lodo: https://myspace.com/ulrichmitzlaff/video/lodo/7947121
I/O – Ulrich Mitzlaff | Carlos Santos present “BLAU”, at “EKA Palacea”, Lisbon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIFuH64CuLo&feature=share&fb_ref=share
Visual Piano - Kurt Laurenz Theinert | Ulrich Mitzlaff present “Visual Piano” at Museu Paula Rego - Casa das Histórias, Festival LUMINA 2015, Cascais: https://vimeo.com/139681042

Audio-links
I/O – Ulrich Mitzlaff (violoncello, objects) | Carlos Santos (digital electronics, objects) present “BLAU”, at “XVI Ciclo de Música Contemporánea”, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Cáceres, Spain: https://soundcloud.com/umitzlaff/io-blau-live-at-mvm-exa

Discography 
Cròniques 2, Albert Cirera / Ulrich Mitzlaff, Discordian Records 2015 
http://discordianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cr-niques-2-2
Day One, “Zíngaro” / Mitzlaff / Viegas / Rosso - 4TET, JACC-Records 2015
https://soundcloud.com/zmvr-4tet
Cellos, Ulrich Mitzlaff / Miguel Mira, Creative Sources Recordings 2010
Spiritualized, Lisbon Improvisation Players (LIP), Clean Feed/Trem Azul 2006 
A morte do príncipe D. Afonso e outros romances tradicionais da Guarda, Teresa Aurora Gonçalves, Aquilo 2004 
Compact Disconcert, Nuno Rebelo, Raka Records & Teatro Nacional S. João 2002 
Miles Away, Ulrich Mitzlaff, Elroi Record Productions 1994 


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