Philip Frischkorn

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Philip Frischkorn (2017)

Philip Frischkorn (* 1989 in Munich ) is a German jazz musician (piano, composition).

Live and act

Frischkorn comes from a musical family; he started playing the piano at the age of six. With his two brothers, who play string instruments, he interpreted classical chamber music at an early age . As a companion, he took part in various youth music competitions. He initially dealt with jazz as an autodidact . After switching to the musically oriented Pestalozzi-Gymnasium in Munich, he received jazz piano as well as theory and arrangement lessons.

After graduating from high school, Frischkorn began studying philosophy in Berlin in 2009 . He also took instrumental lessons from Larry Porter . From 2010 to 2014 he studied jazz piano with Richie Beirach at the University of Music and Theater Leipzig . By 2018 he completed his master’s degree with Michael Wollny in Leipzig .

He was already active as a freelance musician during his studies. Since 2012 he has been playing with the trombonist Antonia Hausmann , the woodwind player Matti Oehl and the bassist Jakob Petzl in the drumless quartet Trio.Diktion , for which he also composes; the ensemble has released two albums. In 2018 he founded his trio Melancholic Memory Machine (with bassist Andris Meinig and drummer Philipp Scholz) , for which he also writes using serial composition techniques . As a pianist he recorded three albums for enja in Eva Klesse's quartet and gave concerts on the main stage at the Jazzfest Berlin , at the jazz festivals in Münster , Dortmund and Leipzig, at the Bavarian Jazzweekend as well as at the Festival ChilEuropa in Santiago de Chile. But he can also be heard on the album Der Mensch Lassen nach from Schorsch Kamerun .

Prizes and awards

In 2014 he won the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award with the band Trio.Diktion ; In 2016 the quartet was a finalist at the Young Munich Jazz Prize. With the Eva Klesse Quartet, he was named “Newcomer of the Year” with the ECHO Jazz in 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography (real-live-jazz.de)
  2. ↑ a b biography (New Music Leipzig)
personal data
SURNAME Fresh grain, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich