Ernst Reijseger

Ernst Reijseger – born November 13, 1954 in Bussum, the Netherlands – is a cellist and composer whose specialties include avant-garde jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical and film soundtracks. He has collaborated with a variety of poets, dancers, actors, painters, and film makers. Some of his musical collaborators include Yo-Yo Ma, Trilok Gurtu, Derek Bailey, Gerry Hemingway, Joëlle Léandre, and others. His professional career stretches back to the early 1970s when he began performing improvised music with fellow musical explorers Derek Bailey, Martin Van Duynhoven, and Michael Moore. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was member of many musical ensembles including Misha Megelberg’s ICP Orchestra, the Theo Loevendie Consort, the Guus Janssen Septet, and the Amsterdam String Trio. Ernst Reijseger released his first solo album, Taiming, in 1981. He also recorded collaborations with Sean Bergin, Alan ‘Gunga’ Purves, Misha Mengelberg, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, and Han Bennink. Ernst Reijseger has also been involved with world music projects, working with musicians from Sardinia, Turkey, Iran, Argentina, and Senegal. As a solo artist and collaborator, he’s released over three dozen albums including Et On Ne parle Pas du Temps (1995/with Louis Sclavis), Colla Parte: Versioni per Violoncello Solo (1997), I Love You So Much It Hurts (2002/with Franco D’Andrea), Tell Me Everything (2008), and Walking Out (2017). However, his most high-profile work has been the soundtracks he composed for Werner Herzog including The White Diamond (2004), The Wild Blue Yonder (2005), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), and Family Romance, LLC (2019).

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