Lars Duppler

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Lars Duppler (born December 16, 1975 in Flensburg ) is a German-Icelandic jazz pianist and composer . In the group »rætur« he also plays Fender Rhodes and Moog synthesizers .

Live and act

Duppler, the son of an Icelandic woman and the German military historian Jörg Duppler grew up in various places, including Bonn . He learned the piano as a child. He studied at the Musikhochschule Köln with Hans Lüdemann , John Taylor and Bill Dobbins and in 2000/2001 with an Erasmus grant at the Conservatoire de Paris with Daniel Humair and François Théberge . During his studies he was a member of the NRW Youth Jazz Orchestra (1997-2000), with which he performed in China and Turkey, and of the European Youth Jazz Orchestra , with which he toured Southeastern Europe in 2000.

Duppler founded his own quartet Palindrome , which he later expanded into a sextet. He also played in the groups of Nils Wülker , Tom Gaebel , Eva Mayerhofer , Inga Lühning and Frank Sackenheim. He led his own trio, with which he was on the road with the Weill program Le Grand Lustucru , and the band rætur (with Johannes Behr , Philipp Bardenberg and Jens Düppe ), which presents Icelandic songs in fusion versions . With the group Alliance Urbaine he played in the 2008 final for the New German Jazz Prize . With Sébastien Jarrousse , he has led Le tentet franco-allemand at irregular intervals since 2010 , a project with German and French jazz students funded by the Franco-German educational institute . In 2016 he released his first solo album, Naked , which was recorded in the chamber music hall of Deutschlandfunk in Cologne. He is a member of Niels Klein's Quartet Tubes and Wires (with Hanno Busch and Jonas Burgwinkel ) and the Jens Düppe Quartet (with Frederik Köster and Christian Ramond ).

Since the winter semester 2011 Duppler has been teaching as a lecturer for jazz piano and ensemble at the Institute for Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences .

Prizes and awards

Duppler was a prizewinner at the DaimlerChrysler Jazz Contest 2000 and in 2003 received the jazz promotion award of the city of Cologne (Horst and Gretl Will scholarship). In 2002 and 2006 he was a finalist in the Martial Solal piano competition in Paris. In 2006 he spent 6 months as a scholarship holder of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the Cité des Arts in Paris.

Discographic notes

as a leader:

  • Palindrome ( JazzHausMusik , 2000)
  • Palindrome 6tet (JazzHausMusik, 2003)
  • Le Grand Lustucru: Lars Duppler Trio plays Kurt Weill with Matthias Nowak , Jens Düppe, John Ruocco and Eva Mayerhofer (edition collage, 2006)
  • Alliance Urbaine with Ignaz Dinné , Dietmar Fuhr and Jens Düppe (EarTreatMusic, 2008)
  • Rætur with Johannes Behr, Philipp Bardenberg, Jens Düppe and Pétur Ben (EarTreatMusic, 2011)
  • Lars Duppler: Naked ( GLM , Soulfood, 2016)

as a sideman (selection):

  • Jens Düppe Quartet studio concert with Frederik Köster and Christian Ramond (Neuklang, 2019)
  • Niels Klein Tubes and Wires Life in Time of the Big Crunch with Hanno Busch and Jonas Burgwinkel ( Traumton , 2017)
  • Heiko Fischer General Relativity with Giorgi Kiknadze and Conrad Ullrich (What We Call Records, 2017)
  • Tom Gaebel So Good to Be Me (Tomofon, 2014)

Web links

Individual evidence


personal data
SURNAME Duppler, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Icelandic jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
  1. ↑ Entry on Radio Swiss Jazz ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.meinesüdstadt.de
  3. ↑ Vive le Jazz: Lars Duppler - Sébastien Jarousse ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , October 6, 2013
  4. ↑ Mutual respect goes far beyond musical boundaries! Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Tubes & Wires | Niels Klein: saxophonist / composer. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ works. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Employees. Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, accessed on April 2, 2019 .
  8. ^ Horst and Gretl Will scholarship. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  9. ^ Minister of State for Culture Christina Weiss awards scholarships abroad for 2006. German Music Council, accessed on April 2, 2019 .
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