Norbert Dömling

Norbert Dömling - double bassist, electric bassist, composer - began his musical career in 1973 in the band "Missus Beastly", a Krautrock band with jazz and world music influences.

Since then he has played concerts with top musicians all over the world and participated in numerous LPs, CDs, radio and TV recordings. (Toto Blanke, Biréli Lagrène, Joachim Kühn, Jasper van ́t Hoff, Stu Goldberg, Billy Cobham, Trilok Gurtu, Ramesh Shotam, Christoph Lauer, Charlie Mariano, Tony Lakatos, Toots Thielemans, Tomasz Stańko, among others).

He was the initiator of projects like "Jazz meets Tango", a trio with Juan José Mosalini on bandoneon or "Family of Percussion meets Bass-Strings" with Peter Giger, Tom Nicholas and Dom Um Romão (percussion), Vitold Rek and Jürgen Wuchner on double bass and played with Ali Neander in the "Fifty Fingers Acoustic Orchestra".

From 1993 Norbert Dömling also gave solo concerts with electric bass and loop delay, which was an absolute novelty at that time.

Current project is the trio "Dömling-Wagner-Mackenthun" with Martin Wagner on accordion and Jens Mackenthun on guitar. Furthermore there is the collaboration with the exceptional percussionist Carlo Rizzo (IT) on polytimbral tambourine and other frame drums, saxophonist Eric Plandé (FRA), guitarist John Stowell (USA) and pianist Bob Degen (USA).

Brand new is the duo with flutist Stephanie Wagner. The debut album of "Stephanie Wagner & Norbert Dömling - Flute 'n' Bass", recorded in 2023 in a minimized instrumentation of flute and double bass, with the title "Traces" (Unitrecords) received great attention from the audience and the press.

Also Brand new is the "Norbert Dömling's Flying Spices" Quintett feat. Tony Lakatos // sax, Stephanie Wagner // flutes, Manuel Seng // piano, Andreas Neubauer // drums and Norbert Dömling // double bass and compositions.

This year he also received the Darmstadt Music Prize. (Darmstädter Musikpreis)

Awards

Darmstädter Musikpreis 2023

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