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. Winterschladen is one of the great improvising artists on his instruments and 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.