Eva Klesse

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Eva Klesse (2016)

Eva Klesse (* 1986 in Werl ) is a German jazz musician ( drums , composition).

Live and act

Klesse received drum lessons from the age of eleven. In 2005 she moved to Leipzig, where she first began studying medicine. Her interest in jazz led to her studying jazz drums in Weimar, Leipzig and Paris and graduating with a double diploma in 2013. Your most important teachers were Heinrich Köbberling , Richie Beirach and Ari Hoenig . In 2016 she continued her studies at New York University with the support of a DAAD scholarship.

With her quartet, founded in 2013, for which Klesse also composed, she received the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award in the same year and opened the Leipzig Jazz Days . In 2014 the debut album Xenon was released , for which the quartet was awarded the Echo Jazz 2015 in the category “Newcomer of the Year”. In 2017 she received the Westphalia Jazz Prize. She is also active in other projects, such as in the Jorinde Jelen Band, the Julia Hülsmann Octet and the Trio No Kissing . Concert tours led her a. a. to the USA, Chile, France, Spain and China.

In spring 2018 she was appointed as the first German instrumental professor for jazz at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media .

Discographic notes

  • Eva Klesse Quartet Xenon ( enja 2014, with Evgeny Ring , Philip Frischkorn , Robert Lucaciu )
  • Jorinde Jelen Band Mitten ins Blau (Timezone, 2014)
  • No Kissing Behind the Mask (egolaut 2014, with Werner Neumann , Alma Neumann)
  • Eva Klesse Quartet Obenland (enja 2016, with Evgeny Ring, Philip Frischkorn, Robert Lucaciu)
  • Eva Klesse Quartet Miniatures (enja 2018, with Evgeny Ring, Philip Frischkorn, Robert Lucaciu)

Web links

Commons : Eva Klesse  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait on Deutschlandfunk
  2. ^ Eva Klesse Quartet (Deutschlandfunk)
  3. ↑ Eva Klesse receives the Westfalen Jazz Prize 2017 in Jazzpages
  4. ↑ Eva Klesse is Germany's first female jazz professor at Hannoversche Allgemeine , November 15, 2018
  5. ^ Wolfram Knauer "Play yourself, man!" The history of jazz in Germany. Stuttgart 2019. p. 11
  6. ↑ Meeting (Fonoforum)
  7. ^ Roland Spiegel: CD - Eva Klesse Quartet "Miniatures", in: BR-Klassik, October 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Klesse, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (drums, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Werl