Lucas Leidinger
Lucas Leidinger (born September 16, 1988 in Aachen ) is a German jazz pianist and composer .
Live and act
Leidinger received his first piano lessons at the age of five and comes from a musical family. At the age of 15 he had lessons from Stefan Michalke ; in the following years he began to play in jazz bands and to deal with composition. Between 2005 and 2007 he composed the music for several independent theater productions in Aachen. 2006 to 2008 he received lessons from Hans Lüdemann in Cologne; From 2008 he studied jazz piano at the Cologne University of Music with Florian Ross and Hubert Nuss (graduated in 2012) and then from 2013 to 2015 in the master's program at the Rytmisk Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen. He also had lessons from Achim Kaufmann , Frank Gratkowski and Jacob Anderskov, among others .
In 2013 his debut album Wandertrieb was released with his band Ebene Null consisting of Christoph Möckel , Stefan Berger and Max Andrzejewski on Traumton Records ; followed by Daydream Visions 2014, for which he wrote all compositions, with the Lucas Leidinger quintet consisting of Menzel Mutzke , Christoph Möckel, Oliver Lutz and Silvio Morger . In 2013 he worked as a pianist with Florian Ross Big Company . He also took part in radio and television productions for public broadcasters at home and abroad and played concerts all over Germany, China, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark. Leidinger currently (2017) lives in Cologne and works as a pianist and composer with several of his own formations. For his project "Lucas Leidinger Trio & Strings" he wrote compositions for piano trio and string quartet. The quartet "Mount Meander" with Thomas Sauerborn , Kārlis Auziņš and Tomo Jacobson released their debut album in 2016 on Clean Feed Records . He also plays with the band Eine.Art of the trombonist Max von Eine and in a quartet and duo with the Belgian saxophonist Daniël Daemen , in 2018 in the Aggregat Quartet with Leonhard Huhn , Reza Askari and Moritz Schlömer .
His compositional oeuvre includes works for small and large jazz ensembles, but also solo piano pieces, string quartets and stage music.
Awards
In 2010, Leidinger won the “Convento Jazz Prize” with his band “Ebene Null”. In 2012 he received the “Sparda Jazzaward” with “Eine.Art”; In 2013 he was again the winner of the Sparda Jazz Award with his Lucas Leidinger quintet. In 2014 he won the DPA Competition for Composers in Copenhagen. One of his compositions was performed by the DR Big Band . On October 27, 2016, Lucas Leidinger received the Horst and Gretl Will scholarship for jazz / improvised music.
Discographic notes
- Florian Ross Big Company: Ties & Loose Ends (Fuhrwerk Musik 2013)
- Daniel Daemen: Limited Impossibilities (2012) with Daniël Daemen, Etienne Nillesen and Matthias Nowak
- Greg Torunski: Changes (2011) with Greg Torunski, Piotr Torunski, Etienne Nillesen , Elisabeth Fügemann and Reza Askari
- Level zero: Wandertrieb ( Traumton Records , 2013), with Stefan Berger, Max Andrzejewski , Christoph Möckel
- Lucas Leidinger Quintet Daydream Visions (Fuhrwerk Musik, 2014), with Menzel Mutzke , Christoph Möckel , Oliver Lutz and Silvio Morger
- Art Lamara (Double Moon, 2015), with Max von Eine, Rodrigo Villalon and Juan Camillo Villa
- Lucas Leidinger "Trio & Strings" (Klaeng Records 2016) with Etienne Nillesen , Matthias Nowak and the "Alinde Quartet"
- Mount Meander "Mount Meander" ( Clean Feed Records 2016) with Thomas Sauerborn , Karlis Auzins and Tomo Jacobson
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait at New Phalanx
- Lucas Leidinger at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Cologne, Horst and Gretl Will-Scholarship 2016 , accessed on October 24, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leidinger, Lucas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |