About me
9 to 5 ...
… might have been my daily routine if, after three semesters of traffic engineering, I had not thrown in the towel and studied composing and arranging. Today, various musical projects fill my working hours and I enjoy that no two days are the same.
Composing & Arranging
More than 20 years ago I started to write a cappella arrangements. What started with Backstreet Boys in headphones and a pencil in hand became my passion and finally my job. Today I have published more than 100 arrangements and compositions. The feedback I get tells me that I found something I’m really good at.
Voice & Keys
With muSix and ONAIR , I have given well over 1000 concerts at home and abroad. Since I now have two small children, I have decided in 2018 to take a break from being on tour. Since that time I’m spending the weekends at home rather than on German motorways. Of course, I miss being on stage with my dear colleagues. But when I give piano lessons once a week in our ONAIR studio, I get to see them and hear all the hot updates of the a cappella world.
Workshop & Worship
Working with choirs and a cappella bands on their goals has always fascinated me. With ONAIR I have regularly been able to give workshops for arranging, stage presence, intonation and vocal technique. Nowadays I like to work with ensembles on pieces that I have arranged for them before. In addition, I have been singing, clapping and dancing as a church musician in Berlin-Neukölln since 2010 and I enjoy bringing children and teenagers in touch with music for the first time.
Do you ever feel f major?
The fact that music and I will probably have longer to do with each other, became clear to me for the first time in the dark turbulence of puberty. When all came over me, good and bad, it was often impossible to put thoughts and feelings into words. But this speechlessness had suddenly disappeared when a piano smiled at me. And if I “only” played what came to my finger’s mind again instead of practising Bach, it did not earn me any points in the next piano lesson though, but in the long run, I won an indispensable 88-key friend. Accompanying others on their way to the “music-is-my-friend” feeling has always been what drives me. Whether while arranging for choirs, singing with preschool children, being on stage or while teaching: I want to encourage people to understand and use music as a language to express emotions and get in touch with each other.
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What happened until now ...
Born in 1983 in Berlin
Of course, I do not remember it.
However, I remember my father’s harpsichord in our living room, which has always fascinated me.
1997-2014 Founding member of the a cappella group muSix
In 1997, I founded the a-cappella sextet muSix. We considered singing without instruments to be quite a novelty, and owe the passion of the first months to this ignorance.
At about this time, I also started arranging pop songs for a cappella singing.
What was then curiosity (and the lack of suitable sheet music) soon became a passion and, consequently, later my profession.
2006-2010 Studying at the University of Music in Dresden, Germany
After graduating and a year of community service I studied composition and arrangement (jazz/rock/pop) at the Academy of Music “Carl Maria von Weber”“.
During this time my work began as a freelance arranger (now among others for JazzVocals, Sjaella, the Viaphoniker, MAYBEBOP, das CONtrust Jazz Orchester, Soundchexx, Sixpack, den Jazzchor Freiburg and many more).
Since 2010 church musician in Berlin-Neukölln
Immediately after graduation, I got the offer of a permanent position as a church musician at St. Dominicus in Berlin-Neukölln. Since then, I work there 2 days a week and enjoy the wonderful task of bringing children into contact with music.
2011 "Fhainkost"
„Fhainkost“ – a tribute to our beloved hometown Berlin – was the sixth album of muSix and the first CD with self-written songs. Both lyrics and composing as well as the subsequent examination of the songs on stage made this time very valuable and intense for me.
2013-2018 Founding member of the a cappella group ONAIR
In 2013 I arranged and directed the songs for “The Voices of Winter”, a concert tour with Jocelyn B. Smith and muSix.
Also this year I co-founded the vocal band ONAIR, with which I was fortunate enough to win several 1st prizes and to give concerts worldwide (eg in Taipeh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Moscow, Miami, Tampere).
2016 Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär'
I was particularly pleased that “The Primaner” won the Grand Prix at the International Choir Competition 2016 in Budapest – with this piece, among others.
2018 - Less touring, more family
As the father of (meanwhile) two children, I decided not to go on tour with ONAIR anymore, but to work increasingly as a composer and arranger.
As big as that step was for me, I absolutely enjoy the freedom of working today as flexibly as family life requires.
2019 - new compositions and arrangements
In 2018 and 2019 I composed and published several choral works and children’s songs, including for RKW 2019. As part of a ZDF television service in April 2019, some of them premiered.
References
ONAIR - Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär'
Arr. Stefan Fluegel
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muSix - Ich will mehr
T./M./Arr. Stefan Fluegel
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ONAIR - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Arr. Stefan Fluegel
MAYBEBOP + ONAIRBe Still My Heart
Arr. Stefan Fluegel
Perpetuum Jazzile + ONAIR - Pretender (Live in Ljubliana)
Arr. Stefan Fluegel
Stefan Flügel - Missa Perpendicula
Latin mass for big band, choir, soloists and pendulum clock. Recorded on 15.6.2010 at HfmDD CONtrust jazz orchestra Projektchor der HfMDD Jennifer Kothe, Sopran André Bachmann, Tenor
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