Florian Höfner

Florian Höfner (born August 29, 1982 in Höchstadt an der Aisch ) is a German jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

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Höfner grew up in Höchstadt and learned piano, accordion and trumpet at the local music college ; he played in the jazz combo and accompanied the high school choir on the piano. Since 2002 he has been studying jazz piano at the Berlin University of the Arts . After a first degree as a jazz pianist, he studied on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music , where he was tutored by Jason Moran , Dave Liebman and Garry Dial and he completed his Masters in 2010. He has lived in Newfoundland since 2014.

Internationally he first became known with the band Subtones (with Magnus Schriefl , Malte Dürrschnabel , Peter Gall and Ruben Samama or currently Matthias Pichler ), which won the jazz competition in Straubing in 2005 and the Tremplin competition in Avignon in 2008. The group has released four albums so far. He shared the stage with the likes of Joe Lovano , Seamus Blake , Rich Perry , John Riley and Tim Ries . He also directed his New York-based Florian Hoefner Group, which released its debut album Songs without Words in 2012 and has since toured Europe and North America several times. He has lived in eastern Canada since 2014.

In addition to its own ensembles, the Federal Jazz Orchestra and the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra have also performed compositions by Höfner. He is a two-time winner of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award and was part of the BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop under the direction of Jim McNeely .

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SURNAME	Hofner, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH	Höchstadt an der Aisch