Matthias Schriefl

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Matthias Schriefl (2010)

Matthias Schriefl (born April 9, 1981 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a jazz trumpeter , multi-instrumentalist, composer and band leader .

Live and act

Schriefl comes from a musical family (his younger brother Magnus Schriefl is also a jazz musician) and grew up in Maria-Rain in the Oberallgäu district . At the age of eleven he was national winner of the youth music division ; at the age of 15 he was the youngest member of the Bavarian State Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Federal Jazz Orchestra . At the age of 17, he and his band “Sidewinders” were national champions at “Jugend Jazzt” and recorded his first CD “Die Bestie” on Mons Records . During his school days, Schriefl was a young student at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and then studied from 2000 to 2005 at the Cologne University of Music with the trumpeter Andy Haderer . He also went to Amsterdam for a year as a Socrates scholarship holder . While still a student, he played with Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination & Brass and the WDR , hr and NDR big bands . Until 2016 Schriefl lived in Cologne, where he organized the concert series Jazz-O-Rama , which hosts a jazz concert every week in Cologne's ARTheater .

Schriefl's most successful project is the band " Shreefpunk ", whose first two CD productions, both on the ACT label , received great international acclaim. Since 2007, the band has been invited by various specialist juries to the German Jazz Meeting at the Jazzahead trade fair in Bremen for three years in a row and toured from 2007 to 2009, partly on behalf of the Goethe Institute , through 15 countries in Europe as well as through Mexico, Australia and seven countries in West Africa.

Other band projects of their own were the Mutantenstadl , Schmittquote Meier , the European TV Brass Trio with Daniel Casimir ( alto trombone ) and François Thuillier ( tuba ), the band Deujazz with Anette von Eichel , 2 Generations of Trumpets with Andy Haderer as well as the Matthias Schriefl Trio and various Duo projects, u. a. with Michael Abene (p) and the “Duo Fanfarov” with Bodek Janke (dr). He has also been leading Brazilian Motions for over 10 years with the Brazilian singer Patricia Cruz and the Ensemble Six, Alps and Jazz , which consists of 6 multi-instrumentalists. With the singer Tamara Lukasheva he forms the Duo Matria and with Gerhard Gschlössl and Norbert Bürger the trio AAAPUZ .

At the Rudolstadt Festival 2016

Schriefl had engagements with the WDR big band and the soul band Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings ; He has replaced Allan Botschinsky in the European Jazz Ensemble since 2006 and has been the lead trumpeter of the European Movement Jazz Orchestra since 2007 . In May 2007 he went on a Southeast Asian tour with RA Ramamani and TAS Mani . Since 2007 he has been involved in the Bavarian crossover project of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik as a jazz soloist and composer. A joint CD was produced in 2008. In 2009 he performed his orchestral work Ein frisches Kö-Pi as a trumpet soloist with the Duisburg Philharmonic . He is also part of Helga Plankensteiner's sextet Plankton .

In addition to the trumpet, he plays the flugelhorn , alphorn , euphonium , baritone saxophone , tuba , ophikleide , piccolo trumpet , horn and sousaphone . His compositions include vocal interludes and sound experiments with cowbells, bird decoys, a plastic melodica or children's toys.

Prizes and awards

In 1999 he was national winner in youth jazz with the band Sidewinders . In 2000 he received a composition grant from the German Music Council . In 2001 he received the Biberacher Jazz Prize and in 2006 the WDR Jazz Prize (for improvisation). The Münchner Abendzeitung awarded him the “Star of the Year 2007”. In 2008 he received the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists (in the composition, conducting, instrumental music section). At the suggestion of the Cologne Philharmonic , he was named "Rising Star" in the same year; As part of the international concert series »Rising Stars«, which is coordinated by the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO), Schriefl performed in leading concert halls in Europe in 2008/2009. In 2012 he received the German Record Critics' Prize for the CD Six, Alps and Jazz (ACT).

Schriefl received the Ruth Special Prize at the Rudolstadt Festival in 2016 for crossing the boundaries between jazz, folk and world music .

In 2019 he won the New German Jazz Prize twice in Mannheim , the Band Prize with his band Shreefpunk plus Strings and the Soloist Prize. Shreefpunk plus Strings shared the prize money with the other participating bands, a novelty in the history of German jazz prizes.

Discographic notes

Matthias Schriefl (2017)

Web links

Commons : Matthias Schriefl  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner 2016 , Ostthüringer Zeitung , accessed July 15, 2016
  2. ↑ New German Jazz Prize 2019
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ meeting
personal data
SURNAME Schriefl, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter, composer and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)