“Slow Migration”, band project with the line-up tp, sax/cl, cello, p, b, dr
2025
“11 Duets for Beginners” easy duos for students, in editions for saxophone, clarinet and flute, published by AMA-Verlag “Big Relief 2025”, a 24-hour blues from 5 pm on 10 May to 5 pm on 11 May.
2024
“European Tour”, a busking journey to southern Italy, the Baltic states and Scandinavia
2022
Premiere of the suite Ankole Hills for big band and soloists. Recording of the CD of the same name (released 2023)
Premiere of the mass Giver of Life. Recording of a CD of the compositions.
2018
Recording of the demo CD Live im Loft with the band Hochhäuser. Recording of the Klarinettenquintette (clarinet quintets) with François de Ribeaupierre as soloist (also released on the CD “Live im Loft”). Big Relief – 24 Hours of Blues, a 24-hour blues concert at the Kunst- und Musikschule der Stadt Brühl (Brühl’s municipal school of art and music).
2017
Come Sunday – Spiritual Music in Jazz Duo programme with the organist and improviser Matthias Haarmann, with compositions by John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, John McLaughlin and others.
2016
Publication of the 11 Duets for teaching in versions for clarinet and flute
2015
Relaunch of the band Hochhäuser with Jan Klinkenberg (keyb), Stefan Rey (b) and Thomas Esch (dr), with a renewed programme and new sounds. Recording of the CD World Tour.
2014
Composition of four Klarinettenquintette (clarinet quintets: string quartets with solo clarinet). Two arrangements for the WDR Rundfunkorchester (WDR Radio Orchestra).
2012
Premiere of the suite Mirrors for symphony orchestra and jazz combo. Recording and release of a CD.
2011
Recording of the CD Wellen with the band Hochhäuser.
2010
Founding of the band project Hochhäuser with Andi Reisner (git), Nils Imhorst (b) and Tobi Lessnow (dr), plus a TASCAM four-track cassette deck.
2009
Volume 2 of the saxophone method: “Steps Ahead” (playing techniques and styles for intermediate players) for tenor saxophone and for alto saxophone.
Recording of a live CD of the big band suite Pangäa with Pablo Held, Heiner Wiberny, Matthias Bergmann and others.
11 Duets for saxophone teaching, published by AMA-Verlag.
2003
Trio Petzold/Kirberg/Imhorst with a concert programme for churches. Composition of the Franziskusinventionen (Francis Inventions) and recording of a CD of the pieces.
2002
Recording of the CD Elements with the Working Band
2001
Working Band with Christian Winninghoff (tp), Hanno Busch (git), Nils Imhorst (b), Roland Höppner (dr), Roland Peil (perc) and, as guest, Ariane Baumgartner (voc)
1999
Pangäa, a cycle of compositions in five movements for big band, premiered in June. “Scenes from a Sketchbook”, performance pieces for tenor saxophone (AMA-Verlag)
1996
Recording of the CD Ulysses with the Matthias Petzold Septett.
1994
Psalmen und Lobgesänge (Psalms and Songs of Praise), a cycle of compositions for choir and jazz ensemble on psalms and texts by Francis of Assisi and the prophet Isaiah (premiere and recording of the CD Psalmen und Lobgesänge).
Commissions from the town of Brühl (in 1991 for six big band arrangements, and in 1993 for the score to a silent film).
1992
Founding of the label Indigo Records to release his own productions. Recording of the CD Lifelines with the Matthias Petzold Sextett.
1990
Founding of the Matthias Petzold Sextett.
1989
Performance and recording of the piece Rainbow Dancer by the WDR Big Band.
1984
Began studying in the jazz department of the Musikhochschule Köln (Cologne University of Music) with Heiner Wiberny, majoring in saxophone (teaching diploma 1990, artistic diploma 1992). While a student, radio recordings and concerts in Germany and abroad with the Gunter Hampel Big Band, the bands “Zikzak” and “Elephant Talk” and various musicians of the Cologne jazz scene. Performances and premieres of contemporary compositions (among others with the “Kölner Ensemble” at the Stuttgarter Tage für Neue Musik and with the symphony orchestra of the city of Münster).
