Markus Harm

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Markus Harm (* 1987 in Stuttgart ) is a German jazz musician ( alto and soprano saxophone , also clarinet , flute ).

Live and act

Harm grew up in Nagold and Tübingen. His first clarinet lessons were given to him in the Nagold-Iselshausen Music Association before he received saxophone lessons at the Nagold Music School; From the age of 16 he took private lessons with Klaus Graf in Stuttgart. There were also workshops with Peter Less , Herb Geller and Tony Lakatos . Between 2008 and 2015 he studied jazz saxophone at the Nuremberg University of Music with Klaus Graf, Hubert Winter and Steffen Schorn .

Harm was part of Rebecca Trescher's Ensemble 11 , the Michael Binder Sextet , the Matthias Schwengler Sextet in Cologne, The Big Leppinski around Agnes Lepp and the Peter Fulda Quartet, the Sunday Night Orchestra , the Groove Legend Orchestra , the Tobias Becker Big Band , the Dusko Goykovich Munich Big Band or the Jazz Big Band Association under the direction of Axel Kühn . His debut album was created with his group Harmzone . With his own quartet (with Christoph Neuhaus , Jens Loh and Dominik Raab ) the albums Dig It and As It Is were created . He has formed a duo with the pianist Andreas Feith since 2014; he also belongs to Organic Vibes around organist Lukas Großmann and Volker Heuken . He also worked with Charly Antolini , Sheila Jordan , Jim McNeely , Paquito D'Rivera , Scott Robinson , Gwilym Simcock , Tony Lakatos, Bob Mintzer , Ack van Rooyen , Herwig Gradischnig and John Ruocco . Concerts and tours have taken him to Hungary, Switzerland, Austria and the USA.

Harm teaches at the music schools of the city of Nuremberg, the city of Stein and at the Rednitzhembach youth band as an instrumental teacher for clarinet and saxophone. He has been a lecturer at the Nuremberg University of Music since winter 2018. He also leads two wind orchestras, a big band and a saxophone ensemble.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c portrait (Tobias Becker Big Band)
personal data
SURNAME Harm, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (woodwind instruments)
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart