Moritz Sembritzki

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Moritz Sembritzki (* 1983 in Oldenburg ) is a Berlin jazz musician (guitar, composition, orchestral direction).

Live and act

Sembritzki studied jazz guitar with Frank Möbus from 2003 to 2006 at the Musikhochschule Weimar , and from 2006 he continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig with Werner Neumann and in Paris. In 2008 he received the Marion Ermer Foundation's Jazz Young Talent Award. Today he lives in Berlin.

As leader and guitarist of the Berlin Magnetic Ghost Orchestra, he produced and wrote the music for the album Sand (2016) a. a. with Malte Schiller , Evgeny Ring , Florian Menzel , Raphael Klemm and Moritz Baumgärtner . His big band compositions were also on the Spielvereinigung South (Leipzig), fats Horn (Hannover), Kasseturm Big Band played (Weimar) and the State Youth Jazz Orchestra Lower Saxony. He also works as artistic coordinator for the New York composer Lisa Bielawa and her large-format new music performance “Airfield Broadcast”, which was performed in Berlin and San Francisco.

Since January 2016 there has been a 7-person formation under Sembritzki's leadership with the name Koerper v. a. with Leipzig musicians.

Sembritzki also works as a lecturer at the Leipzig University of Music.

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Individual evidence

  1. Moritz Sembritzki receives Jazz Young Talent Award from the Marion Ermer Foundation