Konstantin Herleinsberger

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Konstantin Herleinsberger (* 1991 in Passau ) is a German jazz musician ( saxophone , composition).

Live and act

Herleinsberger began taking saxophone lessons at the age of nine. Increasingly enthusiastic about jazz, the tenor saxophone became his main instrument. In 2011 he began studying instruments at the Nuremberg University of Music with Klaus Graf , Steffen Schorn and Hubert Winter . The following year he became a member of the Bavarian Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Harald Rüschenbaum , with whom he was involved in concert tours to Sicily and Southeast Asia. He has been living in Hamburg since autumn 2015, where he is completing a master's degree in jazz.

Herleinsberger has been leading his own quartet since 2014, for which he composes; with this band he released the album Round Corners on Mons Records in 2016 . He is also involved in the albums Fields and Floating Food by Rebecca Trescher Ensemble 11. He can also be heard on albums by the Landesjugendjazzorchester, the Bamesreiter Schwartz Orchestra and Carlos Reisch ( The Big Band Rapertoire ).

Prizes and awards

In 2014 and 2015 Herleinsberger won the jazz ensemble competition of the Bruno-Rother-Gedächtnis-Scholarship of the Rotary-Club Nürnberg-Fürth. He is also the 2015 young talent award winner in his home district of Passau. With his quartet he won the LAG Jazz Prize in 2015. With Treschers Ensemble 11 he received the Bavarian Art Prize in 2017 in the music and dance category .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LAG Jazz Prize 2015: The "Konstantin Herleinsberger 4tet" in autumn on the Bavarian jazz newspaper tour
  2. ↑ Outstanding artists receive Bavarian Art Prize 2017
personal data
SURNAME Herleinsberger, Konstantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau