Jan F. Brill

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Jan Frederik Brill (* 1991 in Lauf an der Pegnitz ) is a German jazz musician ( drums ).

Live and act

Brill grew up in a family of music lovers in Kalchreuth and began playing the piano at the age of six. After three years he switched to drums. Thanks to his father's record collection, he came to jazz at a very young age; with his father he regularly attended concerts in the jazz studio in Nuremberg . After graduating from secondary school, he began studying jazz at the Nuremberg University of Music in 2009. In 2012 he moved to Cologne in order to complete his degree there in 2014. In 2016 he returned to Nuremberg for his master’s degree .

Along with Jonathan Hofmeister and Florian Herzog, Brill is a member of the Cologne trio Turn , with whom he released the album Waiting for Fred in 2016 ; In 2019 Turn was on tour with Nils Wogram . He is also part of Volker Heuken's sextet . The Freiraum project (which he maintains with bassist Alex Bayer) invites a teammate every month. As a sideman he can be seen regularly live in other projects, such as the groups Lama , Der Fall , GIGER or the quartets by Joachim Lenhardt, Julian Schunter and Peter Fulda .

Prizes and awards

Brill is a three-time winner of the Bruno Rother Memorial Competition (2009, 2010 and 2017). He has already won several prizes with Trio Turn , such as the composition prize at the Biberacher Jazz Prize 2013 and 2nd place at the International ConadJazzContest by Umbria Jazz . In 2019 Brill received a prize from the city of Nuremberg .

Discographic notes

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diploma concert Jan F. Brill - drums: "Turn"
  2. ↑ turn
personal data
SURNAME Brill, Jan F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brill, Jan Frederik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Run on the Pegnitz