Michael Thieke

Michael Thieke is a German clarinettist and alto saxophonist, born in Düsseldorf in 1971 and based in Berlin. He works across free improvisation, experimental song forms and music at the edges of jazz, with a close interest in timbre, microtonality and the small details of sound. Thieke studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Denney Goodhew, Kirk Nurock and Jerry Granelli. He co-founded the group Nickendes Perlgraas and has played in Gebhard Ullmann's The Clarinet Trio, The International Nothing, Splitter Orchester, Hotelgäste and Der Lange Schatten.