Dierk Peters

This article is about the jazz musician Dierk Peters; on the technology historian see Dirk Peters .

Dierk Peters, Brooklyn 2019. Photo by Chloé Marchal

Dierk Peters (2015 at ARTheater) with Reza Askari in a concert by the Gender Balanced Group (with Tamara Lukasheva and Filippa Gojo )

Dierk Peters (born October 27, 1986 in Gifhorn ) is a German jazz musician ( vibraphone , composition ).

Live and act

Peters grew up in the Hamburg area and began learning the drums at the age of eight before switching to the vibraphone at 17. He received lessons a. a. with Florian Poser , Oreste Kindilide, Wolf Kerschek and David Friedman . He was a member of the Lower Saxony state youth jazz orchestra "Wind Machine". In 2007 he moved to Cologne, where he studied with Tom van der Geld at the Cologne University of Music and graduated with honors in 2012. In 2016, he started a master's degree at New York University with a DAAD scholarship , where Stefon Harris became his mentor and brought him to the Manhattan School of Music in 2017 .

Since 2009 he has played with Christoph Möckel , Constantin Krahmer , Oliver Lutz and Rafael Calman and Fabian Rösch in the quintet Offshore , with whom he has released three albums and toured Germany several times. With Stefan Berger and Rafael Calman he formed the trio Westinato , which released its debut album in 2015. In his project Ambrosia he brought together five European instrumentalists consisting of trumpet, clarinet, accordion, vibraphone, bass and drums. In the USA he worked with Chris Speed , Rich Perry , Jacob Sacks , RJ Miller and Jochen Rückert .

Prizes and awards

Peters won at youth jazz at the state level Lower Saxony (2006) and federal level (2007) with the duo he formed with Charlotte Greve ; both times he also received the soloist award. The Charlotte Greve / Dierk Peters Duo was also awarded the Praetorius Music Prize in 2008 . In 2011 Peters received the special soloist award at the competition in Burghausen; in the same year he won the Convento-NRW-Jazzpreis with the Offshore Quintet .

Discographic notes

• Offshore Côte de Cologne ( Double Moon Records 2013)
• Botter Ango (Floatmusic 2015, with Julian Ritter, Stefan Schönegg , Dominik Mahnig )
• Offshore Preen (Klaeng 2017)
• Ambrosia (Tangible 2019, with Bastian Stein , Stefan Karl Schmid , Laurent Derache, David Helm , Fabian Arends )

Web links

• Website Dierk Peters
• Portrait of Dierk Peters
• Ambrosia: Sounds of the Gods (DLF)
• Dierk Peters at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

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