Curt Cress

Curt Cress
Birth name Curtis Cress
Born August 11, 1952
Brachttal, Germany
Occupation(s) Drummer, composer, professor
Years active 1965-present

Curtis "Curt" Cress (born August 11, 1952 in Brachttal, Germany) is a German drummer and composer.

Life and work

Curt Cress began his career in 1965 in Hanau with the band Load . Later he also played in Hanau near the bands' inspiration Six and most recently Orange Peel, which was officially disbanded again the very next year, but comes together occasional appearances. Curt Cress has published about 12,000 photographs and can be heard on at least 400 million records sold. Curt Cress worked both as a band member of several bands like Klaus Doldinger s Passport, Atlantis, Spliff, Milli Vanilli and Snowball. Curt Cress Clan, and as a guest on numerous studio recordings and live performances with German and international artists, e.g. Falco, Peter Maffay, Rick Springfield, SAGA and Tina Turner. Own solo releases followed as drum Avantgard productions: AVANTI, SING, BANG, TRIP. Cress was also known as a producer, most notably for Uwe Ochsenknecht, Claudia Cane, Heiner Pudelko, Nena, Nina Hagen and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . He continued to work as a studio musician, as for Boney M., Hubert Kah, Michael Cretu, Scorpions, Alphaville, BAP, Inga & Annette Humpe, Peter Cornelius, Marianne Rosenberg, Stefan Waggershausen, Udo Lindenberg, Meat Loaf and Freddie Mercury (Mr. Bad Guy).

Cress also made himself a name as a TV and film music composer. He composed the music for the series SK Kölsch, The Red Mile, HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin or for the telenovelas Bianca - Wege zum Glück and Julia - Pursuit of Happiness. Cress is one of the composer's music scene for the series Love in Berlin. He also worked for the Tatort and has among others the theme songs of the ARD sports show and Wetten, dass ..? Arranged. For the feature film Bandits Cress was calculated as Playback - hired musicians. His movements and idiosyncrasies while the CD-production took Katja Riemann then as a template for her portrayal of a drummer. Since 2009 he records along with Chris Weller and Manuel Mayer for the music of the ZDF telenovela Alisa - Follow your heart responsible.

Since 2006, Cress is a professor at the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater; he has taught there since 2004.

His company CC HOLDING GmbH produces media products for music, film and television. The holding company has F.A.M.E. company Recordings Publishing GmbH, F.A.M.E. Artist Recordings GmbH, CRESS PUBLISHING GmbH and pilot Tonstudio GmbH.

Personal life

Curt Cress is married and has three children.

Discography

Solo work

With other musicians

Awards

Literature

References

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