Felix Römer (musician)

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Felix Römer (born June 16, 1993 in Herne ) is a German jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Career

Römer had been taking piano lessons at the Herne City Music School since he was five. He joined the music school's own big band and completed preparatory training at the Glen Buschmann Jazz Academy in Dortmund, where he met young jazz musicians such as Marc Doffey and Max Boehm .

Römer studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, the University of Music and Theater Hamburg , the University of the Arts Berlin and in 2016/17 at the Paris Conservatory . He is currently (2019) completing the master's degree in film music at the Babelsberg Film University .

Romans was a member of the Youth Jazz Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg as well as 2014 and 2015 of the Federal Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO), with whom he international tour was (among other things in Iceland, China, Russia) and with musicians like John Hollenbeck , Götz Alsmann or Pe Werner occurred . In 2016 he was a finalist in the piano competition of the Montreux Jazz Festival .

Since 2017 he has been part of Richard Köster's quintet Coastline Paradox , with whom he played at the Bavarian Jazzweekend 2018 and released the album Welf & Eiger . At the Xjazz 2018 Festival , he accompanied Erik Leuthäuser , with whom he later performed as a duo, for example at the Lichterfeld Jazz & Blues Days 2019.

Römer also composes film scores; He lives and works in Berlin.

Discographic notes

  • Coastline Paradox Welf & Eiger ( col legno 2019)
  • Bundesjazzorchester: Groove and the Abstract Truth ( Double Moon Records , 2015)
  • Youth Jazz Orchestra NRW: Triangle (2014)
  • Patric Siewert Group: Station to the Underground (2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry Film University
  2. ↑ Cast 2014/2015 - BuJazzO. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Pe Werner & Friends 2015 - BuJazzO. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Felix Roemer. Montreux Jazz Festival, accessed on November 5, 2017 .
  5. ^ Coastline Paradox. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ A b Josef Engels: Coastline Paradox (discussion). In: Rondo . June 22, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Release concert ›Wünsch‹, May 10, 2018. Accessed October 27, 2018.
  8. ↑ 21st Lichterfeld Jazz and Bluestage appear young and innovative. In: Berlin Week . February 25, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Erik Leuthäuser & Felix Römer (Blue Note). Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ CDs - BuJazzO. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  11. ^ Triangle (discography by JJO NRW). Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Romans, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne