Johannes Maikranz

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Johannes Maikranz (born April 18, 1988 in Emmendingen ) is a German jazz and fusion musician ( guitar , composition , arrangement ).

Live and act

Maikranz was mainly influenced by classical music in the family and should first learn the cello . He received his first drum lessons at the age of six ; at the age of nine he switched to the guitar. After further lessons he played in local jazz bands as a student; at the age of 14 he received first prize in the state competition youth jazz in Baden-Württemberg.

After a six-month stay in Rio de Janeiro, he studied guitar from 2008 to 2013 at the Hochschule für Musik Basel with Wolfgang Muthspiel (Bachelor of Arts and Master's degree). During his studies he began to deal intensively with arrangement and composition and received lessons from Ed Partyka , Django Bates , Aydın Esen and Qiming Yuan .

In 2010 he founded the 14-person ensemble Sound Expedition , for which he composed and arranged. He has worked as a companion in various bands, for example in the big bands of Tobias Becker ( Life Stream ) and Jonas Winterhalter ( Eleven Things To Say ), the Swiss pop band Mantocliff and in a duo with Cécile Verny . In 2013 he founded his sextet, whose debut album was released in 2015; With his large-format Zeitbloom Orchestra , founded in 2015 , he released the album Someone Is Following on Enja in 2017 . In 2018 he was awarded the tent music festival prize.

Discographic notes

  • Johannes Maikranz Sextet 6/1 ( Mons Records 2015, with Andreas Böhlen , Lou Lecaudey , Hans Feigenwinter , Roberto Koch, Jan Schwinning)
  • Mantocliff Umbilical (Radicalis Music 2016, with Nives Onori, Jan Sutter, Raphael Rossé, Victor Rossé, Michael Anklin)
  • Johannes Maikranz Zeitbloom Someone Is Following feat. Aydın Esen ( Enja 2017, with Charles Wagner, Christoph Herrmann, Marc Hood, Alessandro Viotti, Lars Bausch, Adrian Kleinlosen , Lou Lecaudey, Andreas Böhlen, Niko Seibold, Fabian Willmann , Lucas Rössner, Roberto Koch, Arthur Hnatek )
  • Cécile Verny & Johannes Maikranz My songs ( GLM 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Worlds merge Badische Zeitung , July 3, 2018
  2. ↑ Band portrait (SRF)
  3. ↑ Meeting ( Jazz thing )
personal data
SURNAME Maikranz, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and fusion musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Emmendingen