Philipp Gras

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Philipp Gras (* 1989 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German composer , arranger and jazz pianist .

Live and act

Gras already played in bands during his school days. His repertoire includes various styles from RnB, jazz, pop to musical theater. At the age of 18 he completed his first cycle of songs on "Homo Faber" by Max Frisch . At the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart , he first studied jazz / pop piano with Hubert Nuss , in order to deepen his master's degree in arrangement and composition with Rainer Tempel. He took part in master classes from Jason Robert Brown and Stephen Schwartz .

In 2011 Gras composed the music for the musical "Re-Play - Alles ist Possible" with Perrin Manzer Allen , which was performed in Hamburg. In 2015 he wrote the musical “Älter” with Robin Kulisch, which was a finalist in the Schmidt Theater's Creators musical competition . Ettena - A New Musical , which was performed in Esslingen, followed in 2018 with the same text author . He continues to work as musical director and composer for various theater stages in Germany; he also wrote the music for the documentary Against Forgetting by Luigi Toscano . His compositions and arrangements have been performed by the SWR Big Band with Fola Dada , Zodwa Selele and Volkan Baydar , but also in musicals such as Die fabelbare Welt der Amélie .

Gras's work won the Young Lions Jazz Award in 2015.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography
  2. ↑ a b c Author biography (older)
  3. ↑ Ettena 2018
  4. ↑ Entry at Musicalzentrale
  5. ↑ Documentary “Against Forgetting”: From an art project to a matter of the heart
  6. ↑ Concert Patrick Perschon Remastered with Philipp Gras, Zodwa Selele, Patric Scott
personal data
SURNAME Gras, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, arranger and jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar