Matthias Akeo Nowak

Matthias Akeo Nowak (* 19th May 1976 in Berlin ) is a German jazz - musicians ( bass ).

Live and act

Nowak studied orchestral music and jazz at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts and at Queens College in New York . He took part in masterclasses with Charlie Haden , Drew Gress and Eric Harland . As a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie , the Ensemble 01 Klangwerk and the Junge Österreichische Philharmonie, he performed at home and abroad. Gunter Hampel brought him into his “Next Generation” as a bass player. From 1999 to 2008 he played in the group Triosence , with which he won the 2001 youth jazz competition and recorded several albums.

Nowak founded his Koi Trio in 2010 . He is part of the Cologne jazz scene, has worked with musicians such as John Ruocco , Jürgen Friedrich , Dejan Terzic , Rudi Mahall , Christopher Dell , Peter Ehwald and Oliver Leicht as well as played with Paragon , in the quartet of the Belgian saxophonist Daniel Daemen , with Eva Mayerhofer and Laia Genc , Angelika Niescier , Martin Schulte , in Stefan Schultze Large Ensemble and Tobias Christl poaching . Concert tours have taken him to Albania, France, Luxembourg, England, Italy, the USA and India. He has performed at international festivals such as the Willisau Jazz Festival . He can also be heard on albums by Johannes Repka , Caroline Thon , Tobias Hoffmann and Lars Duppler .

Triosence First Enchantment ( Mons Records 2002, with Bernhard Schüler , Stephan Emig )
Koi Trio (Personality 2012, with Riaz Khabirpour , Oliver Rehmann )
Koi Trio feat. Sebastian Gille / Rainer Böhm Light Blue (Float Music 2014, with Riaz Khabirpour, Oliver Rehmann)
Matthias Akeo Nowak, Bill Elgart , Sebastian Gille & Achim Kaufmann : Common Ground (jazzwerkstatt 2018)

personal data
SURNAME	Nowak, Matthias Akeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nowak, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH	May 19, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin