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Dirk Zygar

Dirk Zygar

Dirk Zygar, born 1964, lives in Hamburg and grew up in Liberia, Westafrica. He studied saxophone under John Tchicai. Besides being an instrumentalist, he is a composer, arranger, music teacher for saxophones clarinets, and musicology in Berlin and Hamburg. He is the leader and baritone-saxophonist of the Berlepsch-Saxophone-Quartett in Hamburg. He is interested in research of musical heritage of West African and Northern German ethnic music. For some time he has been living as a new-wave-musician in Berlin wandering in-between European musical cultures and jazz. Zygar is composing works for saxophone quartet and solo saxophone, for schooler-ensembles and publishes workbooks for saxophone.


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