Fabian Willmann

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Fabian Willmann (* 1992 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , bass clarinet , clarinet , also flute ).

Live and act

Willmann, who grew up in Freiburg, had classical piano lessons from the age of seven and inherited a saxophone from his grandfather at the age of ten. He then had saxophone lessons at the music high school in Gundelfingen and finally got the opportunity to help out as a saxophonist with symphony orchestras and also to participate in the SWR project Der Schrei with the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg . From 2011 to 2015 he studied jazz saxophone with Domenic Landolf and Adrian Mears at the Basel University of Music . During his studies he also received lessons from Mark Turner , Aydın Esen and Jorge Rossy . He is currently (2018) studying musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg .

Willmann played in the formations Minua (album Culturescapes Island , with Kristinn Smari Kristinsson , Luca Aaron ) and Monoglot (with Sebastian von Keler , Kristinn Smari Kristinsson, Samuel Sole , Luca Glausen ) from the mid-2010s . He was also a member of the Jonas Winterhalter Big Band and the Sarah Chaksad Orchestra. He also played in the selected ensembles in Baden-Württemberg and the Swiss jazz academies ("DKSJ-Allstar-Band 2013"), the Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg and in ensembles under the direction of Guillermo Klein , Nils Wogram and Ohad Talmor . With Janning Trumann , Eva Klesse and Florian Herzog he forms the Trillmann quartet , which was formed during a study trip to New York and with which he released the joint album Foen (Tangible Music) in 2017 . He can also be heard on Johannes Maikranz 's 2017 time bloom album Someone Is Following .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reiner Kobe: The Gundelfinger saxophonist Fabian Willmann. Badische Zeitung , March 2, 2018, accessed on September 7, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ a b portrait
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 7, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Willmann, Fabian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, also flute)
DATE OF BIRTH 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau