Constantin Krahmer

Constantin Krahmer (born March 4, 1986 in Westergellersen ) is a German jazz musician (piano, synthesizer).

Live and act

From the age of nine, Krahmer began taking trumpet and later piano lessons. In the school big band he gained his first experience with jazz. He played the trumpet and later the piano in the Lüneburg jazz ensemble. From 2002 he played with Charlotte Greve in the band Grevius ; In 2005 he won first prizes at Jugend jazzt . From 2006 to 2011 he studied jazz piano ; his lecturers and professors at the Cologne University of Music and Dance were Hubert Nuss , Frank Wunsch , Florian Ross and John Taylor .

Krahmer runs the Offshore Quintet together with Dierk Peters , with which he released three albums and won the festival prize of the jazz competition “Startbahn Jazz 2010” in Straubing and was a finalist in the “Jazz Competition Burghausen 2011”. He also played in Alexander Bühl's sextet , in Benjamin Steil's The Willit Blend , Red Dogs , in the Misha Vernov Quartet, in Esja 4 , in Radius , with Mara Minjolis Metromara , with Maik Krahl and with Hannah Schörken. In 2011 he took 2nd place at the Steinway Jazz Prize for Solo Piano Competition in Düsseldorf.

Discographic notes

• Offshore Côte de Cologne ( Double Moon Records 2013, with Christoph Möckel , Oliver Lutz , Fabian Rösch )
• Alexander Bühl Sextet The Music of Cole Porter (InVivoRecords 2014)
• The Willit Blend Rainbow's End (AJazz 2014, with Filippa Gojo , Christoph Moschberger, Benjamin Steil, David Andres, Thomas Sauerborn )
• Radius (2016, with Jonas Vogelsang, Stefan Rey, Thomas Sauerborn)
• Offshore Preen (Klaeng 2017)

Web links

• Web presence
• Constantin Krahmer at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State winner at "Jugend jazzt" 2005
2. ↑ entry (jazz calendar)
3. ↑ Brief portrait (Burscheid Music School) ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.