Born: March 29th, 1940, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Died: November 26th, 2020
Nationality: Danish
In due course, the short impression below will be replaced with a more extensive career overview
BIOGRAPHY
Allan Botschinsky, one of the world’s most famous jazz trumpeters and flugelhorn players, studied at the Royal Danish Conservatory (1953-1955) and the Manhattan School of Music (1963). From the late 1960s until the early 1980s, he worked for DR, the Danish public broadcaster, and its big band as an instrumentalist, arranger, and conductor. In 1985, he moved to Hamburg (West Germany), where he worked with the Peter Herbolzheimer Big Band and founded a record label, M.A. Music, for which he arranged and produced music of other artists. Botschinsky composed symphonic pieces such as ‘Dronning Dagmar Patchwork’ and ‘Tumus’.
Representing Denmark, Allan Botschinsky took part in two editions of the Nordring Radio Prize, playing the trumpet in the country's 1976 entry 'Sentiments' in Inverness, while being the composer, conductor, as well as flugelhorn soloist of the 1983 effort 'The Music Goes Round' in Blankenberghe. In that year's festival, Botschinsky was awarded with the prize for best instrumental soloist of the festival.
EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
Between 1979 and 1983, Allan Botschinsky conducted all Danish entries in the Eurovision Song Contest. These include ‘Disco tango’ and ‘Krøller eller ej’, the two first attempts in the festival by Tommy Seebach (1979 and 1981). ‘Disco tango’ finished sixth, the best result of the five entries in which Botschinsky was involved.
EUROVISION INVOLVEMENT YEAR BY YEAR
Country – Denmark
Song title – "Disco tango"
Rendition – Tommy Seebach
Lyrics – Keld Heick
Composition – Tommy Seebach
Studio arrangement – Ole Høyer
(studio orchestra conducted by Ole Høyer)
Live orchestration – Ole Høyer
Conductor – Allan Botschinsky
Score – 6th place (76 votes)
Country – Denmark
Song title – "Tænker altid på dig"
Rendition – Bamses Venner (Flemming 'Bamse' Jørgensen / Mogens Balle / Bjarne Gren Jensen / Arne Østergaard)
Lyrics – Flemming 'Bamse' Jørgensen
Composition – Bjarne Gren Jensen
Studio arrangement – Per Oluf Hansen / Bamses Venner
Live orchestration – Svend Skipper
Conductor – Allan Botschinsky
Score – 14th place (25 votes)
Country – Denmark
Song title – "Krøller eller ej"
Rendition – Tommy Seebach & Debbie Cameron
Lyrics – Keld Heick
Composition – Tommy Seebach
Studio arrangement – Ole Høyer
Live orchestration – Ole Høyer
Conductor – Allan Botschinsky
Score – 11th place (41 votes)
Country – Denmark
Song title – "Video-video"
Rendition – Brixx (Jens Brixtofte / John Hatting / Bjørn Holmgaard Sørensen / Torben Jacobsen / Steen Ejler Olsen)
Lyrics – Jens Brixtofte
Composition – Jens Brixtofte
Studio arrangement – Brixx
Live orchestration – Wolfgang Käfer
Conductor – Allan Botschinsky
Score – 17th place (5 votes)
Country – Denmark
Song title – "Kloden drejer"
Rendition – Gry Johansen
Lyrics – Flemming Gernyx / Christian Jacobsen
Composition – Lars Christensen / Flemming Gernyx /
Christian Jacobsen
Studio arrangement – Lars Christensen / Flemming Gernyx / Christian Jacobsen / Billy Cross / Jan Glæsel
Live orchestration – Wolfgang Käfer
Conductor – Allan Botschinsky
Score – 17th place (16 votes)
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