Jonas Pirzer

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Jonas Pirzer (* 1985 in Munich ) is a German jazz musician ( drums , composition) and cultural manager.

Life

Pirzer received piano lessons from the age of six. As a teenager he played in various rock, grunge and punk groups, for example with Candelilla , but also in the school big band, in which he discovered jazz. After graduating from high school, he moved to Berlin, where he took preparatory classes with Rainer Winch , Victor Alcántara , Julia Hülsmann and Tim Sund . Between 2007 and 2014 he studied jazz drums with Heinz Lichius as well as communication and cultural management at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . In addition, he received composition lessons from Julia Hülsmann, Jonas Schoen and Ingo Laufs.

Pirzer founded the piano trio Trilith and the tentet Jonas Pirzers Konfrontation , both of which only perform his own compositions. He also plays in the experimental trio Dasch2 , the world music quartet NaNaya , the Johannes Wilke Angry Ensemble and the brass band Brazzo Brazzone . He was also a member of the Brandenburg State Youth Jazz Orchestra (initially conducted by Rolf von Nordenskjöld , later by Jiggs Whigham ), the European Jazz Academy ( Erik van Lier , John Ruocco ) and the big band Blechschaden from Lüneburg. As a composer and arranger, he worked for various bands and wrote a. a. Big band arrangements for the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau.

From 2014 to 2016 he studied Communication & Cultural Management at the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, which he completed with a master's thesis on strategic communication in the jazz scene. He has been living in Stuttgart since autumn 2014, where he was managing director of the Union of German Jazz Musicians (now Deutsche Jazzunion) until the summer of 2016 and where he frequently took part in the media. In connection with the strengthening of the UDJ, he was awarded the honorary prize of the WDR Jazz Prize in 2016.

From 2016 to 2018 Pirzer worked as a speaker for art and culture at BASF . From 2018 to 2020 he worked in the cultural office of the city of Esslingen am Neckar . There he was responsible for developing a strategy in the field of cultural education and participation.

Since April 2020 he has headed the Office for Culture and Sport of the City of Leonberg .

Discographic notes

  • Dasch2 spin cycle (2012, with Daniel S. Scholz, Daniel Schröder)
  • The Daniel Sebastian Scholz Big Band DDSSBB (2015)
  • NaNaya far. home. east (2015, with Thea Soti , Daniel S. Scholz, Johannes Keller)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ After graduation: Earning money with music Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 17, 2014
  2. ↑ Music students arrange pieces for the youth big band Mitteldeutsche Zeitung February 12, 2013
  3. ↑ Zeppelin University , Alumni Careers
  4. ↑ BASF Culture Program , 2017/2018.
  5. ↑ Cultural administration plans participation offensive , Esslinger Zeitung September 23, 2019.
  6. ↑ Kulturverwaltung works on participation strategy , Esslinger Zeitung , November 28, 2019.
  7. ^ Culture as a cement for urban society , Stuttgarter Nachrichten , January 3, 2020.
  8. ^ Website of the city administration , Leonberg .
personal data
SURNAME Pirzer, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (drums, composition) and jazz official
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich