Peter Lenz (musician)

Peter Lenz (* 1987 ) is an Austrian jazz drummer.

Lenz grew up in Straden in Southeast Styria; at the age of nine he started playing the drums . His teacher Karlheinz Miklin aroused his interest in jazz. He studied at the University of Music and Drama in Graz with Howard Curtis . After graduating in 2011, he lived in Rotterdam ; In 2012 he and his band Silent Flow released the album It Is But It's Not ( Unit Records ), on which Adrian Kleinlosen (trombone), Raphael Meinhart (vibraphone), Manfred Temmel (guitar), Lukas Raumberger (double bass) participated. In 2013 he went to New York , continued his studies with a Fulbright Scholarship and studied drums and composition with John Riley , Jim McNeely and Mike Holober in the Masters program at the Manhattan School of Music . He currently leads the formation Lithium (with saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Speed , Reinier Baas on guitar, Stefan Lievestro on bass), for which he also composes.

Private

When he is on home vacation in the summer, he helps - in July 2016 - with picking blueberries in Straden, in the business that his brother took over from his parents.

Web links

Web presence
Peter Lenz at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Lenz Silent Flow / It Is But It's Not in Rocktimes
↑ http://oe1.orf.at/programm/443273 Peter Felber: The Ö1 Jazz Night, 5 million pesos: Peter Lenz in the Jazz Night Studio and in Vienna's RadioCafe, Radio Ö1, oe1.orf.at, broadcast July 24, 2016 , 00: 05-02: 00, accessed July 24, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Lenz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	1987

[1] Peter Lenz Silent Flow / It Is But It's Not in Rocktimes

[2] ttp://oe1.orf.at/programm/443273 Peter Felber: The Ö1 Jazz Night, 5 million pesos: Peter Lenz in the Jazz Night Studio and in Vienna's RadioCafe, Radio Ö1, oe1.orf.at, broadcast July 24, 2016 , 00: 05-02: 00, accessed July 24, 2016.