Peter Ehwald

Peter Ehwald (* 1978 in Berlin ) is a German jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , clarinet ) and music teacher.

Live and act

Ehwald studied saxophone at the music academies in Weimar and Cologne , at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the City College of New York , where he took lessons with Claudius Valk , John Patitucci , Rich Perry , Mike Holober , Julian Argüelles , Stan Sulzmann and Iain Ballamy had. Together with bassist Friedrich Störmer and drummer Wolfgang Höhn, he recorded the album Away with Words for JazzHausMusik in 2003 , on which music by John Scofield was reinterpreted. From 2007 to 2009 he taught jazz combo and big band at City College . In 2007, his composition Alanis was performed in New York's Carnegie Hall with his participation. Concert tours continued to take him to France, Poland, Spain, Finland, but also Latin America.

In Germany he worked with his own formations such as Double Trouble (with Jonas Burgwinkel , Andreas Lang and Robert Landfermann ) and u. a. in the Frederik Leroux Quartet , in the Trio Kim3 (with Kim Efert ), in the Martin Schulte Quartet and in the formations Oktoposse and Schultzing around Stefan Schultze . With Paragon , a quartet of Cologne and London jazz musicians under the direction of the British pianist Arthur Lea and himself, he appeared in 2007 in the map jazz series of the Music Art Project. In the same year he recorded for Konnex with a double quartet directed by himself and Benedikt Jahnel . In 2010 he worked with the Italian trio Monome . With Stefan Schultze he leads the large-format Backyard Jazz Orchestra , which has the characteristics of a Balkan orchestra. In 2017 he presented the album Behind Her Eyes in a trio with Schultze and Tom Rainey . He also appears in the ensemble ~ su with the Korean musicians Kim Bo-Sung and Shin Hyo Jin to create sounds between “classical” music from Korea, traditional music by Korean shamans, Korean percussion music samulnori, jazz and contemporary improvised music. He also played in a quartet of Diego Piñera ( Strange Ways ), in Tobias Christl poaching and Christian Krischkowsky quartet.

Web links

• Web presence with discography
• Peter Ehwald at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Ehwald redefines the jazz quartet: “Double Trouble” Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , March 11, 2013
2. ^ Review of the album Quarterlife Crisis by Paragon , Jazzzeitung 3/2010
3. ↑ Ian Patterson: Review of the album Monome: Monome (2012) in All About Jazz
4. ↑ Event information ~ see below