Ensemble Modern

Frank Zappa rehearsing with Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt, September 1992

The Ensemble Modern worked with Zappa on:

• The Yellow Shark
• Civilization Phaze III
• EIHN (Everything Is Healing Nicely)

In 2002 they recorded:

• Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions.

Members of the Ensemble during the 1992 recordings include:

• Peter Rundel - Conductor, Violin
• Dietmar Wiesner - Piccolo, Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute
• Catherine Milliken - Oboe, Baritone Oboe, English Horn, Didgeridoo
• Roland Diry - Clarinet
• Wolfgang Stryi - Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone
• Veit Scholz - Bassoon, Contrabassoon
• Franck Ollu - French Horn
• Stefan Dohr - French Horn
• William Formann - Trumpet, Flügelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet, Cornet
• Michael Gross - Trumpet, Flügelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet, Cornet
• Uwe Dierksen - Trombone, Soprano Trombone
• Michael Svoboda - Trombone, Bass Trombone, Euphonium, Didgeridoo, Alphorn, Conch
• Daryl Smith - Tuba
• Hermann Kretzschmar - Piano, Harpsichord, Celeste, Dramatic Reading
• Ueli Wiget - Piano, Harpsichord, Celeste, Harp
• Rainer Römer - Percussion
• Rumi Ogawa-Helferich - Percussion, Cymbalom
• Andreas Böttger - Percussion
• Detlef Tewes - Mandolin
• Jürgen Ruck - Guitar, Banjo
• Ellen Wegner - Harp
• Mathias Tacke - Violin
• Claudia Sack - Violin
• Hilary Sturt - Viola, Dramatic Reading
• Friedemann Dähn - Cello
• Thomas Fichter - Contrabass, Electrocontrabass, Electric Bass
• Special Guest: L. Shankar - violin

Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions

Jonathan Stockhammer (conductor) Dietmar Wiesner (flute, piccolo) Catherine Milliken (oboe, English horn, oboe d'amore) Roland Diry (clarinets) Wolfgang Stryi (bass clarinet, saxophone) Johannes Rupe (bassoon, contrabassoon) Simon Breyer (horn) Valentin Garvie (trumpet) Sava Stoianov (trumpet) Uwe Dierksen (trombone) Jozsef Juhasz (tuba) Rumi Ogawa (percussion) Rainer Römer (percussion) Pascal Pons (percussion) Hermann Kretzschmar (piano, sampler, synthesizer) Ueli Wiget (piano, sampler, synthesizer)

Manon Morris (harp) Detlef Tewes (mandolin, mandola) Jürgen Ruck (guitar, electric guitar, banjo) Mats Bergström (guitar, electric guitar) Jagdish Mistry (violin) Freya Ritts-Kirby (violin) Susan Knight (viola) Tom Dunn (viola) Eva Böcker (cello) Michael M. Kasper (cello) Christopher Brandt (electric bass) Corin Long (double bass) Norbert Ommer (sound director) Ali N. Askin (arrangements, transcriptions, sampling, sample arrangement and on track #10: Steno Pool choir) Omar Ebrahim (voice on track #10: Greggery Peccary) David Moss (voices on track #10: narrator, Billy the Mountain, Quentin Robert DeNameland) Todd Yvega (synclavier transcriptions, sampling, sample arrangement)