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  • Genre: Christian / Pop / Rock

    Location Friedrichsdorf, Hessen, DE

    Profile Views: 212286

    Last Login: 27/12/2011

    Member Since 06/09/2006

    Website www.arnekopfermann.de

    Record Label Gerth Medien, Germany (www.gerth.de)

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Arne Kopfermann veröffentlicht mit „Storys“ sein 14. Solo-Album – ab dem 10. September 2010 im Handel Er gehört seit vielen Jahren zu den etablierten und erfahrenen Künstlern in der christlichen deutschen Popmusikszene. Als Lobpreisleiter, Sänger, Gitarrist und Songwriter komponierte er weit über 500 Lieder. Neben eigenen Songs wie „Von ganzem Herzen“, „Über dem Meer“, „Wie der Regen fällt“, „Wir schauen auf Dich“ oder „Voll Sehnsucht“ übersetzte Arne Kopfermann auch zahlreiche internationale Worship-Hits. Seine Musik ist radiotauglich und qualitativ hochwertig. Ob Gotteshaus oder Club, seine Lieder sprechen überall Menschen an, weil sie Herzen berühren und man beim Zuhören die Seele baumeln lassen kann. Seine Ausbildung absolvierte Arne Kopfermann in den Studiengängen Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Medien, Theologie und Popularmusik. Er ist als freier Dozent an der Worship Academy in Altensteig tätig und seit mehr als 15 Jahren auch in Gemeinden vor Ort präsent, in denen er Konzerte gibt und Seminare hält. Auf der Grundlage seiner langjährigen Lehr-Tätigkeit hat er das Standardwerk „Das Geheimnis von Lobpreis und Anbetung“ (C&P Verlag 2009) verfasst, in dem er tiefgehende Einblicke in eine moderne Gemeindemusik-Praxis gibt. Ziemlich genau 20 Jahre sind seit seinem ersten Album vergangen, aber noch immer sprüht Arne Kopfermann vor Ideen und Tatendrang. Als Produzent von mehr als 50 Alben hat er sowieso ein prächtiges Gespür für den „guten Ton“. Und eine verstärkte Live-Tätigkeit mit mehr als 80 Tagen im Jahr schafft ihm eine große Nähe zu seinem Publikum und gesellschaftlichen Themen, die in der Luft liegen. Nach einigen mehr Rockmusik-orientierten Produktionen, die primär dem Genre moderner Lobpreis- und Anbetungs-Musik zuzuordnen waren, ist der Sänger mit hohem Wiedererkennungswert mit „Storys“ wieder zu einer alten Liebe zurückgekehrt, die in den letzten zwei Jahren auch seinen Live-Sound geprägt hat: handgemachte, akustische Singer-/Songwriter Musik mit feinem Gespür für originelle Harmoniewendungen und wunderschöne Melodiebögen. Kopfermann hat über die Jahre viel mit „Alternate Tunings“ auf der akustischen Gitarre experimentiert, und das kann man dem neuen Album auch abspüren. Bereichert durch musikalische Mitstreiter wie die „Söhne Mannheims“ Florian Sitzmann (piano), Ralf Gustke (drums) und Kosho (diverse akustische Instrumente), den Gregor Meyle-Geiger Christian Herzberger, den Cellisten Luca Genta, den Ausnahme-Gitarristen Klaus Bittner oder den Mitproduzenten und Klangtüftler Stefan Weyel und ergänzt durch ausdruckstarke Backing Vocals von Claas P. Jambor, sind wunderschöne groovige Klangteppiche entstanden, die die einfühlsamen Songs des in Hamburg aufgewachsenen Wahl-Friedrichsdorfers gekonnt unterstreichen. Auch inhaltlich nimmt der seit knapp 20 Jahren verheiratete zweifache Familienvater seine Zuhörer mit auf eine anspruchsvolle Reise aus bewegenden Geschichten, die aus dem Leben gegriffen sind. Sie setzen bei Inhalten wie der Suche nach Heimat und innerer Selbstachtung an, handeln von Sucht, Trennung, Versöhnung und Neuanfang. Immer wieder blitzt dabei die persönliche Glaubensüberzeugung des humorvollen und facettenreichen Entertainers auf, ohne dabei jedoch anpredigend zu wirken. Sicher: Kopfermann, der sich seit 2005 als musikalischer Botschafter für das internationale Hilfswerk WORLD VISION engagiert, will mit seiner Musik mehr als nur unterhalten! Er schätzt musikalische Exzellenz, um ein möglichst ausdrucksstarkes Bild vom Leben in all seinen unterschiedlichen Facetten und von Gott zu zeichnen, aber Perfektion ist nicht das Maß aller Dinge, sondern der Wunsch, durch seine Texte und seinen Lebensstil einen bleibenden Eindruck zu hinterlassen und den Weg für eine neue Begegnung mit Gott zu ebnen. Seine Live Konzerte beinhalten das Beste aus beiden Welten. Der erste Teil des rund 2 1/2 stündigen Programms enthält eine Vielzahl der „Storys“, die auf dem aktuellen Album zu hören sind, und handelt, unterstützt durch intensive Anmoderationen, von dem Thema „Suche nach Heimat“, die in der Begegnung mit Gott ihren Höhepunkt findet. Durch die behutsame Heranführung an zentrale Themen des Glaubens in diesem 1. Teil sind die Konzerte besonders gut dazu geeignet, Kirchendistanzierte einzuladen. Der zweite Teil des Abends nach der Pause ist der gemeinsamen Anbetung gewidmet und verwandelt den Konzertsaal unweigerlich in einen Gottesdienstraum. Hier kommen im Besonderen Kopfermanns bekannteste Gemeindesongs und Übersetzungen internationaler „Worship“-Hits zum Tragen, so dass auch das gemeinsame Singen von der eigenen Handschrift des erfahrenen Musikers geprägt ist. Das Album „Storys“ erscheint am 10. September 2010 und ist über seine Homepage (www.kopfermann-band.de), seine Plattenfirma Gerth Medien (www.gerth.de), den Fachhandel oder ab Oktober 2010 über alle relevanten Downloadanbieter erhältlich …

  • Members

    Arne Kopfermann - lead vocals, guitars .. Klaus Bittner - guitars, MD.. Benny Seipel - keyboards, backing vocals.. Alex Lauer - bass, backing vocals.. Katrin Lauer - lead & backing vocals.. Eckhard Jung - drums.. .. Subs [Ergänzungsmusiker]: .. Burkhard Mayer-Andersson, Daniel Jakobi - drums .. Kenneth Tschersich, Markus Bonnert - percussion .. Jörn Schlüter, Frieder Jost - guitars .. Michael Fastenrath, Marc Ebermann - bass .. Michael Schlierf, Andreas Gundlach - keyboards

  • Influences

    Sting, Bryan Adams, Switchfoot, Coldplay, Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin, Jonatha Brooke, Steven Curtis Chapman, Paul Colman, Shawn Colvin, Marc Cohn, Bruce Hornsby, Amy Grant, John Leventhal, Larry Carlton, Toto, Sarah McLachlan, John Farnham, delirious?, Amanda Marshall.

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I was born in 1967 and raised as one of two sons in a pastors family. Music always played an important role in my life, as my mother was a professional soprano involved in church music. My older brother soon proved to be a very gifted musician, becoming an extraordinary piano player who introduced me to the music of the Beatles and other Rockn Roll legends.

At the age of seven I started to play the violin as well as singing in a classical church choir. Since my main interest was not in classical music, at the age of twelve I exchanged the violin for the guitar, which has been my major instrument ever since. Shortly before that, I had made my commitment to become a Christian in my fathers church, which in the following years experienced a local revival in the inner city of Hamburg, a beautiful Northern German musical capitol. A protestant state church in fact, gathering in an old cathedral with more than 1.000 years of history, but involved in the charismatic movement and offering services that soon drew people from a 100 km radius.

A few years later church attendance had grown from 200+ to more than a thousand, and I was involved in the worship ministry, soon starting to write my own worship songs. More than five hundred songs followed over the next twenty years.

At the age of 16, my family and I visited Bethany Fellowship in England and were overwhelmed by the vibrant worship in the congregation, that felt like heaven. There the dream was born to carry the spirit of worship back to Germany and the whole movement. After finishing high school and following a call into full time ministry, I worked in a mission company for a year. Shortly after, for 4 months I travelled all across the USA, aiming to explore the worship culture in the churches of the Vineyard movement and searching for ways to live out my own calling.

A few years later - together with my bride-to-be Anja - I would return to the States for 6 months to study at the University Of The Nations from Youth With A Mission (YWAM) in Kona/Hawaii. This is where I had my initial contact with the Integrity label, participating as a singer in the studio recording of American worship veteran Bob Fitts.

In 1990 my first worship album was released in Germany. Twelve more would follow over the next sixteen years. At the age of 20, I was hired to lead worship at a new church plant in Hamburg. A few years later I left the job to study sociology, theology and pop music at universities in Hamburg and Frankfurt, always being on the road at the same time to teach on worship conferences and seminars and to lead worship and play concerts.

Altogether I played more than 1.500 concerts, seminars, conferences, Sunday services and other ministry related events. Travelling on the wings of worship has brought me to Japan, the USA, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Switzerland, Austria and Sweden ever since, sharing stage with the likes of Michael W. Smith, Paul Colman, Graham Kendrick, Noel Richards, Tim Hughes, Matt Redman, Reuben Morgan, Brian Doerksen, David Ruis, delirious?, Tom Lane, Rebecca St. James, Newsboys, Yfriday, Larry Norman, Glenn Kaiser, Kutless, Bethany Dillon, Sarah Kelly, Lothar Kosse, Albert Frey or Norm Strauss, just to mention a few.

In 1994 my first worship album of European format was released, when Steve Thompson, producer and musical director of English worship pioneer Graham Kendrick, agreed to produce my album in England.

In 1997 I started to get involved in music production myself, co-producing with secular and popular German guitarist Uli Kringler, who three years later became a Christian on a worship tour, that took my worship band and a few other fellow worship artists to 10 cities all across the country in 2000. The year before I had accepted the job as Head of A&R and house producer for Pop & Praise and Worship in what soon would become Germanys leading Christian record company, Gerth Media. Besides signing artists and overseeing international distribution, I continued to produce worship albums for the label, being signed there as an artist myself. I have produced thirty CDs so far, working with dozens of national and international top notch musicians. Especially the series In Love with Jesus was a major influence in an emerging young German worship culture in the last years.

With a musical variety from Rock to Pop, Jazz and Chillout as a producer, I have always tried to stay faithful to an eclectic mix of rock and singer/songwriter elements in my own worship recordings, loving the musical likes of Sting, U2, Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman just to mention a few - but trying not to copy their style.

Being an educated songwriter for more than 25 years, who later became an experienced arranger and studio owner, my major focus and heart emphasis remains to educate, equip and resource the worshipping church with music that is intimate and passionate in nature and will bridge the gap to an ever changing church in post modern times. In recent recordings one dominant theme is the beauty of creation as an expression of Gods unchanging creativity, beauty and greatness.

We need to learn afresh to marvel at and stand in awe of the wonders of His hands. In the worshipping church today, God is sometimes portrayed more a buddy from next door then the Almighty and ever present God. To love God with all your heart means to stand in awe of him or ly prostrate at the same time. There is no need to be afraid of God, but that doesnt mean we should not fear him, or treat him like the guy from next door. Worship him with your whole heart, your full devotion and your entire life, and if necessary, use music

Together with my band, a community of six close friends, who are heartfelt worshippers and very experienced in educating musicians, I love to travel all around to equip and challenge churches - to rediscover and profess their first love for an unchanging God. As part of this endeavour we are frequent teachers in the Worship Academy in the Black Forest in Germany - a school that is educating more then 2.500 German and Swiss church musicians in worship related areas.

With my wife Anja and our young children Tim and Sara, I live in the centre of Germany near Frankfurt. Involved in a local Foursquare church there for almost twelve years now, I have established a regional worship event called Ichthys Worship Night, that six times a year is drawing a couple of hundred worshippers for an evening of praise and adoration. Though being the initiator and visionary, I try to continue to invest in emerging local worship artists, giving them a platform to grow into their calling, while together with pastor Jens Mankel securing the overall vision and direction.

It is my conviction that it..s not healthy to be a worship artist on the road, who visits a church for a couple of hours and leaves before anybody can even get to know him personally. You can only do that if you are at the same time involved in a local church. That is were you live and learn on a weekly basis. This is the place that will give your ministry credibility and authority.

Worship always needs to be an expression of faith, that transfers into society, if it does not want to become shallow. We need to take Jesus serious and be to the least of these what we are called to be unto him. You cant love God and not care for the ones in need. On the other hand our love for each other will feed our overt love for God!

All the mentioned activities have led me to eventually cutting down severe hours in the record company and giving away some responsibilities there. Change was due for January 2007.

It is wonderful to be involved in the Christian music industry. It helps significantly to spread the Good News in a modern and relevant universal language. But I need to be true to my calling first. A worship leader has the responsibility of being a Levite. He needs time to discover God and translate eternal truth into songs and words that will last and help worshippers to express their hearts in adoration. I can do a lot of things but miss out on what is most important. So the more gifted you are the more focus you need. And I cannot recall a season in twenty six years of being a Christian, where God has spoken to me so clearly and distinctly I have no choice but to follow where he leads. This is very exciting and yet a little frightening. But I rather want to walk a road that I do not know, than miss out on His well designed plan for my life. And I cannot wait to be on the road again more frequently to equip the saints for passionate and sincere worship of the living God.

Ministry opportunities include worship seminars, both on theology and musical skills, worship nights, leading worship on conferences and church retreats, worship ministry including teaching in church services etc. Being able to travel alone as well as accompanied by a 2-, 3-, 4- or 6-piece band suits different group seizes and financial budgets.

As a guitarist, I endorse Taylor acoustic guitars, Hiwatt amps and Elixir Strings. Check those products out, they are all A class!!!

Beside my musical duties, I..m one of two German musical ambassadors for WORLD VISION, an organization that helps millions of underprivileged people and especially children in the poorer regions of this planet.

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September 06, 2006

Members:

Arne Kopfermann - lead vocals, guitars
Klaus Bittner - guitars, MD
Benny Seipel - keyboards, backing vocals
Alex Lauer - bass, backing vocals
Katrin Lauer - lead & backing vocals
Eckhard Jung - drums

Subs [Ergänzungsmusiker]:
Burkhard Mayer-Andersson, Daniel Jakobi - drums
Kenneth Tschersich, Markus Bonnert - percussion
Jörn Schlüter, Frieder Jost - guitars
Michael Fastenrath, Marc Ebermann - bass
Michael Schlierf, Andreas Gundlach - keyboards

Influences:

Sting, Bryan Adams, Switchfoot, Coldplay, Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin, Jonatha Brooke, Steven Curtis Chapman, Paul Colman, Shawn Colvin, Marc Cohn, Bruce Hornsby, Amy Grant, John Leventhal, Larry Carlton, Toto, Sarah McLachlan, John Farnham, delirious?, Amanda Marshall.

Record Label:

Gerth Medien, Germany (www.gerth.de)

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