i am An improvising (“JAZZ”) PIANIST AND COMPOSER BASED IN COLOGNE, GERmany WITH Ambitions for a GREAT AND (HOPEFULLY) INCREASING STYLIstic RANGE varying from more traditional forms of jazz and black american music, to pop and to cutting-edge, avant-garde improvisational music.
my playing style can by characterized as expressive, insistent, strange, unpredictable, grounded, linear, brutal and contrapuntal.
I lead two of my own band-projects and co-lead mathis cechs and my band m.e.i.n.e.r.
I produce my own music.
SHORT BIO
*2001
2006: moved to leipzig, germany
2008: started playing the trumpet
2013: first piano lessons
2017: learning improvisation
2019: STUVO (study-prep) @Neue Musik Leipzig with Philip Frischkorn, Robert Lucaciu and Matthias Hirth
2020: studying black american music music (jazz) @HFMT Köln with Niels Klein,
Frank Gratkowski and Hubert Nuss
bandleader: PK:BRUTE , PKIII, M.E.I.N.E.R.
playing as a sideman in various groups, including mathis cech´s MEINER, Frederik Hesse Quintet,