Peter Lehel

{{short description|German jazz saxophonist and composer (born 1965)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|09|13}}

| birth_place = Karlsruhe Baden-Württemberg

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| genre = Jazz

| occupation = saxophonist, composer

| instrument = saxophone
Bass clarinet

| years_active = 1990–present

| label = [http://www.finetone.de finetone music]

| associated_acts = Peter Schindler

| website = [http://www.peterlehel.de/ peter-lehel.de/]

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Peter Lehel (born 13 September 1965) is a German jazz saxophonist and composer.

Life

Peter Lehel was born in Karlsruhe in the Upper Rhine Plain in (Baden-Württemberg). He began taking saxophone lessons at an early age. From 1988 to 1990 he studied Jazz and Pop music, focusing on saxophone at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. Until 1990 he lived in Budapest for one year, where he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and he completed his studies in Stuttgart in 1993. He is teaching jazz, theory, big band and saxophone at Music University Karlsruhe, Germany since 2004.

Work

His music includes works for jazz quartet, saxophone quartet, big band, saxophone & organ, string quartet, jazz quartet with string orchestra, chamber music and symphony orchestra with jazz soloists.[http://www.myspace.com/peterlehel Peter Lehel] at myspace, 21. May 2011

As an arranger, he has worked for Barbara Dennerlein (CD "Change of Pace"), Sabine Meyer, Trio Clarone with Paquito & d.. Rivera.

He is co-owner of independent record label finetone music and since 2004 he is Professor for jazz, harmony, improvisation and big band at the Karlsruhe's University of Music.

=Ensembles=

Lehel is leader of his own groups such as Peter Lehel Quartet,[http://www.finetone.de/peterlehelquarte.html Peter-Lehel-Quartet] 21. May 2011 and he is a member of:

Pipes & Phones with the organist and composer Peter Schindler
SaltaCello (also with Peter Schindler)
Hoppel Hoppel Rhythm Club (jazz for children)

=Discography (Range)=

Sea Of Love (2021), The New Peter Lehel Quartet
Mood Antigua (2020), Finefones Saxophone Quartet
Sonority(2019), Finefones Saxophone Quartet & Jim Snidero
Nocturne (2019), with Wolfgang Meyer
Hidden Tracks (2018), with Kálmán Oláh, Thomas Gunther, Ull Moeck
Aria (2018), with Peter Schindler
Lyrical Album (2016), with Kálmán Oláh, Mini Schulz
Missa in Jazz (2016), with Chamber Choir Baden-Württemberg & Peter Lehel Quartet
Chamber Jazz (2015), with Wolfgang Meyer & Peter Lehel Quartet
Moonlight & Lovesongs (2015), with actor Siegfried Rauch & Peter Lehel Quartet
The Clarinet (2014), with Wolfgang Meyer & Peter Lehel Quartet & Bigband University of Music Karlsruhe
Two of a kind (2012), with Wolfgang Meyer & Sabine Meyer, Trio di Clarone
Song of Praise (2012), with Chamber Choir Baden-Württemberg & Peter Lehel Quartet
Bone Talks (2002, with Henning Wiegräbe & Peter Lehel Quartet
Funk-a-lot (2011, with Finefones Saxophone Quartet
Choro e Bossa Nova (2009), with clarinetist Wolfgang Meyer
Boleros (2007), with Wolfgang Meyer
Soul Balance (2007)
Recht harmonisch (2005)
Live At Birdland 59 (2004)
Moods (2003)
Ballads (2001)
Heavy Rotation (1998)