Dear Friends,
Photo: Ralf Emmerich
I am an improvising musician and I'm interessted in contemporary art and experimental projects. I also work as a composer and interpreter.
I am a ardent guitarplayer. I've been playing my Fender Jazz Master on a Yamaha G 100-Amp since 40 years.
In 1989, I joined the Initiative Improvisierte Musik 
in Münster.
Since 1992, I've organized numerous concerts within the concert series Stage off Limits.
This has been the start of working with cuba-cultur ,
which is a part of the cultur-und-begegnungszentrums achtermannstraße, to which I am still very attached in love.
I am currently curating the IIM series elektroFlux - new impulses of electronic music together with Anja Kreysing.
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Biography
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| born in 1960, born and raised in Lünen-Brambauer |
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| is living in or nearby Münster since 1980 |
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| from 1980 | studied musicology, music education; Lessons of jazz guitar with Axel Zinowsky, classical guitar with Klaus Krass, extensive self-studies and numerous workshops with well-known musicians (Peter O'Mara, Harald Kimmig, Hans-Jörg Pauli, Barbara Kemmler) and organizations (Noah Pikes and Kaya M. Anderson (Roy Hart )). |
| 1989 | Participation in ZDF-TV-organized City Tune with the Performance Group Onyx, first prize in its class for Münster; Joined the Initiative Improvisierte Musik Münster |
| 1990 | musical design of the cooperation project Diese ganze lange Nacht between the Kreativhaus Münster and the Städtischen Bühnen Münster with Arni Arnold and Martin Book |
| 1991 - 1993 | work as a musician in the NewDance group Sigma (Choreography Christine Grunert) |
| 1991/1992 | musician from the Birnbaum production group for Kurt Schwitters Zusammenstoß in Collaboration with the Theater im Pumpenhaus |
| since 1992 | regular appearances as improvising Musician, productions with theater, film and Dance groups, two more productions with the Theater im Pumpenhaus |
| 1994 | Solo appearance on the Gitarrenprojekt IV (Münster) |
| 1995/96 | Gigs with luna7 meldet sich nicht |
| 1996 - 2000 | numerous solo and ensemble concerts in the northern German region TonArt-Hamburg e.V, MIB (Bremen) IIM (Münster), Kunstverein Dortmund, (including Phil Niblock), continues to organize concerts and exhibitions (a.o. with Martin Riches) |
| until today | numerous concerts as an improvising musician, e.g. in a special of the Guitar Festival Münster 2009 |
| 2002 - 2007 | Cooperation with the African singer and multi-instrumentalist Kanga Vovo |
| since 2007 | numerous projects with international artists in intercultural contexts (Ras Seblino, Carl The, Kulturverein Die Brücke, Afrika e.V., etc) |
| 2010 | founding the current formation kolberg+stern |
| 2011 | Start of the project Malen mit Musik at the elementary school Rinkerode |
| 2011 | Joining the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik e.V., Münster |
| 2012 | production Get Out of Your Cage with the performance-group quintEssenz, premiere in the Pumpenhaus Münster |
| 2012 - 2013 | Performances of production Grüner Salon, Kleiner Bühnenboden |
| 2015 | Transfer #1, Brise°3 Performance-Festival, Flensburg |
| 2017 | start of the projects gardens music, Kulturgut Nottbeck |
| 2019 | founding the group pitching hole |
| 2019 | release of the CD Songs of Life and Death |
| 2020 | start of the series Showcase-Concerts | 2021 | Foundation of the media art collective Goldemar Peoplez start of the series Goldemar Days |
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July 25th, 2021, Michael Kolberg
complete concert-list from 2012 here ------------------------------------------------------
