Markus Hufschmidt

Flautist; teaches flute in the field of jazz at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen. In April 2016 he played the flute at PACT Zollverein in Essen in Wolfgang Hufschmidt’s “Vorübergehend gerettet”, a reading for three speakers and three instrumentalists based on fragments from Raymond Federman’s novel “Die Nacht zum 21. Jahrhundert oder Aus dem Leben eines alten Mannes”, under the direction of the composer and with Thomas Neuhaus on tape and sound engineering. On the album Portrait Wolfgang Hufschmidt (1995) he plays the flute in Trio II and in “Engel der Geschichte (II) Flötentöne Nr. XVI”.