A musical greeting with Willem Schulz

Willem Schulz, born in Hamburg in 1950 and rai­sed in Vlotho, is wide­ly known in the East Westphalia regi­on, throug­hout Germany and across Europe. From 1967 onwards, he stu­di­ed at the Detmold Academy of Music and in 1976 co-foun­ded the Wilde Rose cul­tu­ral cent­re in Melle, whe­re he still lives and works today. He regards music as an inter­ven­ti­on, as a spe­cial social event and as an oppor­tu­ni­ty for free artis­tic explo­ra­ti­on in public. Inspired by the Happening and Fluxus move­ments of the 1960s, he devo­tes hims­elf to com­po­si­ti­on, impro­vi­sa­ti­on and musi­cal per­for­mance on the cel­lo – whe­ther solo, as recent­ly at the Old Synagogue of the Oerlinghausen Art Association, or for many deca­des in cross-disci­pli­na­ry col­la­bo­ra­ti­ons with num­e­rous artists, inclu­ding Lilli Friedemann, Gerhard Stäbler, Max E. Keller, Rainer Riehn, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Gerd Lisken, Anke Züllich-Lisken, Marcus Beuter and many others. Since 2004, Willem Schulz has been the artis­tic direc­tor of the con­tem­po­ra­ry music fes­ti­val DIAGONALE, which he foun­ded, and sin­ce 2005 he has been chair­man of the Cooperativa Neue Musik e.V. in Bielefeld.