Quasthoff "Meeting Friends"
Thomas Quasthoff / Vocals
Rüdiger Baldauf / Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Effects
Wolfgang Meyer / Guitar
With Thomas Quasthoff, once again a world star is coming to the Wolf-Ferrari-Haus as part of the Ottobrunner concerts. The Grammy and multiple ECHO award winner Thomas Quasthoff looks back on an impressive global career as a classical bass-baritone, who also feels at home in jazz. When "the man with the most beautiful voice in the world," as called by Stern, meets trumpet player Rüdiger Baldauf and guitarist Wolfgang Meyer on stage, one thing happens above all: Magic! Together, they make emotions in music immediately tangible and transform their rich treasure of musical life experience into a great emotional sound world. Thomas Quasthoff was one of the world-renowned opera and song singers before ending his unprecedented career in 2012 after three Grammys and seven ECHO awards. The stage did not let him go, and he discovered many new talents within himself. Since then, he has appeared as a reciter, cabaret artist, moderator, and even as an actor. Long before he bid farewell to classical music, he also began to pursue his second great love, jazz, which had accompanied him throughout his life. The microphone became his instrument.
Many know Rüdiger Baldauf as the trumpet player of the "RTL Saturday Night Show" or "TV Total." He toured with the Paul Kuhn Orchestra, with Udo Jürgens, the "United Jazz and Rock Ensemble," or with Joe Zawinul and Maceo Parker and played in productions with Max Greger, Jamie Cullum, George Duke, Michael Bublé, Ray Charles, John Scofield, James Brown, Seal, Liza Minelli, or Barbra Streisand. Together with guitarist Wolfgang Meyer, who regularly appears as a jazz guitarist at well-known jazz festivals from Canada to Brazil and Europe, Rüdiger Baldauf forms the perfect pairing to elevate the impressive voice of Thomas Quasthoff.