About Reiner Winterschladen

Reiner Winterschladen (b. 1956), trumpet, has taken an active part in the musical genres of rock (Westernhagen, The Element Project), funk and electro productions (Trance Groove, Nighthawks) as well as in film music since 1979. Winterschladen has performed with Dieter Manderscheid, Radu Malfatti, Achim Krämer, Tony Oxley, Pee Wee Ellis, Ekkehard Jost, and Ali Haurand, among others, as well as in Klaus König's Pinguin Liquid and as part of the Klaus König Orchestra, in the Theo Jörgensmann Quartet and in the groups nuBox (Blue Box) and Indigo String Quartet of Alois Kott. Winterschladen thus is one of the leading trumpet players in Germany. Since 1995 he has been a member of the NDR Big Band. For his work in the band Blue Box (now nuBox), Winterschladen was awarded the arts prize of the city of Düsseldorf in 1985.