Winfried Holzenkamp

Winfried Holzenkamp, born in 1970, is a German double bassist and tango musician. He studied classical double bass until 2001 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Veit-Peter Schüssler and also took lessons in jazz bass with Dieter Manderscheid; already during his studies he played klezmer, jazz, musical theatre and tango, appeared at the opera houses in Mönchengladbach and Cologne and made radio recordings with the WDR. After his Konzertexamen he went to Buenos Aires with a DAAD scholarship, studied tango double bass at the Escuela de Musica Popular de Avellaneda with Daniel Buono as well as with Hector Console, Horacio Carbarcos, Oscar Giunta, Ignacio Varchausky and Alcides Rossi and was a pupil in the Orquesta Escuela de Tango under Emilio Balcarce, with which he played at the tango festival in the Teatro Colon in 2004. Back in Germany he appeared as a guest with Tango Factory, the 676 NuevoTango Ensemble and the Silencio Orquesta Tipica as well as with Marcelo Nisinman and Michael Zisman; today he belongs to the ensemble Tango Salon, among others. In chamber music he worked with the Vogler Quartett and the Mandelring Quartett; he recorded CDs with Ragna Schirmer (Händel-Hammond-Projekt) and the Gabriel Perez Big Band, among others. As double bassist of the Fracanapa New Tango Quintet he can be heard on the hd-klassik album Piazzolla Resonances (2026).