THORSTEN QUAESCHNING
(Tangerine Dream)
Live on Stage auf dem E-Waves Festival
Electronica / Ambient / Electronic Post Rock
Thorsten Quaeschning (Tangerine Dream) composer, multi-instrumentalist, musical director
Released 115 albums
Tangerine Dream 2005 - now
Picture Palace music 2003 - now
Collaboration with Brian May, Jean Michel Jarre, Schiller, Ulrich Schnauss, Paul Frick
Bereits als Kind erhielt Quaeschning Flöten-, Klavier- und Geigenunterricht. Später folgten Gesangs- und Schlagzeugunterricht sowie ein Studium klassischer Musik und Komposition.
2003 gründete er die Band Picture Palace Music. Im selben Jahr begann Quaeschning als Techniker für Tangerine Dream zu arbeiten und wurde 2005 schließlich offizielles Mitglied der Gruppe. Seit dem Tod des Gründers Edgar Froese im Januar 2015 ist Thorsten Quaeschning musikalischer Leiter der Band. Zum 50. Gründungsjubiläum erschien am 29. September 2017 das Album Quantum Gate.
2017 veröffentlichte Quaeschning gemeinsam mit Ulrich Schnauss das Album Synthwaves auf dem Label Azure Vista Records. 2018 erschien der von Thorsten Quaeschning komponierte Soundtrack Cargo auf dem Londoner Invisible Hands Records.
Thorsten Quaeschning. Elbphilharmonie 2018. Tangerine Dream Quantum of Electronic Evolution Tour.
Foto Frank Schwichtenberg. Lizenz GNU-GFDL-CC.
Thorsten Quaeschning, born and living in Berlin, is a classically trained musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He has released 115 albums to date, 74 of them with Tangerine Dream.
Further collaborations with Jean Michael Jarre, Brian May, Edgar Froese, Schiller, Ulrich Schnauss, Franz Bargmann and "Green Man".
Since 2005 he is a member of Tangerine Dream. Edgar Froese named him "Musical Director" of the band in 2011.
His other band "Picture Palace music" won the Schallwelle Award for electronic music 4 times.
Composed the soundtrack for the thriller "CARGO" (USA) and the documentaries "Letters from Lybia" (Germany / Libya) and "Remnants" (UK).
Thorsten Quaeschning Diskografie
Solo
Synthwaves (2017) gemeinsam mit Ulrich Schnauss
Cargo Soundtrack (2018)
The Munich Session (2019) Live Recording at Ambient-Waves-Festival, Munich
Picture Palace Music
Next Year, We May All Be Miles Away - Music For The Winter Solstice (2007)
Somnambulistic Tunes (2007)
Music Inspired By Robert Wiene's "Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari" (2007)
Nostalgia - Music For Pictures And Sculptures (2008)
Walpurgisnacht - Music For Saints & Witches (2008)
Auerbach's Night Club - Music For The Lust Generation & Wine-Cask-Riders (2008)
Symphony For Vampires (2008)
Natatorium - Music For Moonlight Drive & Swimming Pools (2009)
Fairy-Marsh-Districts - Music For Sunken Monasteries & Castle Moats (2009)
Midsummer - Music For Sound Divers & Baptism Ceremonies (2010)
Metropolis Poetry - Music Inspired By Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (2011)
Indulge The Passion (2012)
Remnants - Music For Ancient Light And Bluestone Circles (2013)
Tangerine Dream
Phaedra 2005
Jeanne D'Arc - La Révolte Éternelle (2005)
35th Phaedra Anniversary Concert (2007)
Springtime In Nagasaki (2007)
One Night In Space (2007)
London Astoria Club Concert 2007 (2007)
Madcap's Flaming Duty (2007)
Autumn In Hiroshima (2008)
Loreley (2008)
Purple Diluvial (2008)
The London Eye Concert (2009)
Izu (2010)
The Angel From The West Window (2011)
Knights Of Asheville - Tangerine Dream Live At The Moogfest In Asheville 2011
The Gate Of Saturn (Live At The Lowry Manchester 2011)
Live At Admiralspalast Berlin (2012)
Starmus - Sonic Universe (2013)
Grand Theft Auto V Soundtrack (2013)[11]
Mala Kunia (2014)
Zero Gravity mit Jean-Michel Jarre (2015)
Quantum Key (2015)
Live At Philharmony Szczecin-Poland 2016 (2016)
Particles (2016)
Quantum Gate (2017)
The Sessions I (2017)
Light Flux (2017)
The Sessions II (2018)
The Sessions III (2018)
The Sessions IV (2018)