Martin Standke

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Martin Standke (2015)

Martin Standke (* around 1982 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German jazz musician ( drums ).

Career

Standke studied music teaching at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and at the Cologne University of Music with Michael Küttner , majoring in jazz drums.

Together with Tim Roth , Yuriy Sych and the saxophonist Benjamin Steil, he founded the Contrast Quartet in 2006 , with which he released his debut album in 2009. From this, the Contrast Trio developed , to which Standke belonged until 2018. He is also a member of the Natalya Karmazin trio and quintet . In 2010 he played with Stephan Schmolck at the German Jazz Festival ; He can also be heard on some productions by the Frankfurt Radio Jazz Ensemble . Standke, who lives in Frankfurt am Main, was also active as a theater musician at the theater there.

Prizes and awards

With the Contrast Quartet he received first prize in the Hesse-wide competition Jugend jazzt in 2006 and in 2008 the jazz scholarship of the city of Frankfurt am Main ; He received the working scholarship in 2009 with the Natalya Karmazin International Jazz Quintet and in 2014 with the Electrolyte Quartet . With the Contrast Trio he was awarded the Hessian Jazz Prize in 2016.

Martin Standke (center) with Thomas Heidepriem (2007)

Discographic notes

  • Contrast Quartet Second Wave (flexaton 2009, with Benjamin Steil, Tim Roth, Martin Standke)
  • Karma Jazz Group Birth of Indigo ( Laika Records 2011, with Natalya Karmazin, Evgeny Ring , Daniel Guggenheim , Christoph Rücker)
  • Contrast Trio Zwei (whyempty 2015, with Tim Roth, Martin Standke and Bastian Ruppert)
  • Max Clouth Clan Kamaloka ( L + R Records 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Where the cuckoo flies. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 29, 2018, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ jazzlab: Stephan Schmolck presents Contrast Quartet
  3. ↑ Jazz scholarship for Electrolyte
  4. ↑ Hessian Jazz Prize 2016
personal data
SURNAME Standke, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main