Florian Herzog

Florian Herzog 2016 in concert with Janning Trumann (tb), Sebastian Büscher (ts) and Fabian Arends (dr) at ARTheater Cologne

Florian Herzog (* 1989 ) is a German jazz musician ( double bass , composition ).

Herzog first studied instrumental with Philippe Aerts in Maastricht , then with Dietmar Fuhr and Dieter Manderscheid at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . With Janning Trumann he formed the Duo Hermann . In recent years he has also worked with Jonas Burgwinkel , Michael Moore , Pablo Held , Sebastian Gramss , Christina Fuchs , Sabine Kühlich and Thea Soti .

He toured with various formations in the Benelux countries, France, Italy and Germany and performed at the Moers Festival , Jazz Maastricht and Brussels Jazz Marathon .

In 2013 he received a grant from the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. In 2014 he won the composition prize at the Biberach Jazz Prize with his Trio Turn , founded in 2012 ; with this band he received the Conad Jazz Award in Italy in 2015 . With Just Another Foundry he was awarded the Young German Jazz Award 2015 in Osnabrück and won the competition at the Tremplin Jazz Festival in Avignon and the Maastricht Jazz Award in 2016 .

Discographic notes

Florian Herzog and Sebastian Büscher (ts) 2016 in concert with Janning Trumann (tb) and Fabian Arends (dr) at ARTheater Cologne

• Florian Herzog, Janning Trumann: Hermann ( JazzHausMusik 2014)
• Turn: Waiting for Fred ( Double Moon Records 2016, with Jonathan Hofmeister , Jan F. Brill ; rec. 2014)
• Just Another Foundry: Bouwer (Double Moon Records 2017, with Jonas Engel , Anthony Greminger )
• Holzig (2017), with Hans Arnold , Veit Steinmann , Moritz Sembritzki , Christoph Möckel

Web links

Commons : Florian Herzog  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence
• Florian Herzog at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Discussion of Jazzthing