Leonhard Huhn

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Leonhard Huhn (born June 15, 1986 in Berlin ) is a German jazz and improvisation musician ( alto saxophone , clarinet , composition ). He prepares his instrument, uses microtonality and advanced playing techniques.

Leonhard Huhn (2014)

Live and act

Huhn grew up in Berlin; He has been playing the saxophone since he was thirteen and was a member of the Landes-Jugend-Jazzorchester Berlin under the direction of Dieter Glawischnig , Joe Gallardo and Jonas Schön . From 2006 he studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Wolfgang Engstfeld and Frank Gratkowski . Since then he has mainly worked in the fields of jazz, experimental music and free improvisation. In 2010 he recorded a duo version of Duke Ellington's “ Far East Suite ” with bassist Sebastian Gramss . After a few years of working together in the Olaf Lind Quartet, he founded the Schmids Huhn Quartet with Stefan Karl Schmid . His trio Die Fichten (with Stefan Schönegg and Dominik Mahnig ) won the Tremplin Jazz Avignon Prize in France in 2014. In the band CAR, Huhn changes the sound of his saxophone to the point of total alienation using electronics and synthesizers.

Huhn works regularly with musicians such as Fabian Jung, Elisabeth Coudoux , Philip Zoubek , Constantin Herzog, Carl Ludwig Hübsch , Florian Zwissler and others. a. He is a member of the Multiple Joy (ce) Orchestra , the gRoBA Orchestra and several projects by the singer levelia Gold (most recently the septet "Les Polychromes") and Hayden Chisholm's microtonal alto saxophone octet. Since 2011, Huhn has been involved in experimental children's and youth theater pieces by theater fitters. He was a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation.

Leonhard Huhn (2014)

Discographic notes

  • Sebastian Gramss / Leonhard Huhn: Duke Ellington's Far East Suite ( fixcel records , 2011)
  • Olaf Lind Quartet: Drift (with Stefan Karl Schmid, Marcel Richard, Rafael Calman ; JazzHausMusik , 2011)
  • CAR: Beyond the Zero (with Christian Lorenzen, Kenn Hartwig, Johannes Klingebiel; Unit Records , 2014)
  • Stefan Karl Schmid / Leonhard Huhn: Schmid's Huhn (with Stefan Schönegg, Fabian Arends ; Shoebill, 2014)
  • Leonhard Huhn, Stefan Schönegg / Dominik Mahnig Die Fichten (fixcel records, 2015)
  • Grundstein + het woudkoor Pouancé (2016, with Stijn Demuynck, Raphael Malfliet and Thea Soti , Mascha Corman , Taisiya Chernishova, Maika Küster , Hanna Schörken, Lisa Müller)
  • Schmid's Huhn: Golden Spheres (2018)

Web links

Commons : Leonhard Huhn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ portrait (musicbrig)
  2. ↑ www.theater-monteure.de
  3. ↑ Meeting (Jazzthing)
personal data
SURNAME Chicken, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and improvisation musician (alto saxophone, clarinet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin