Rafael Calman

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Rafael Calman (born February 2, 1982 in Siegburg ) is a French jazz musician ( drums ).

Live and act

Calman took piano lessons as a teenager; he played drums in numerous bands. After taking classes at the jazz branch of the Bonn Music School, he studied jazz drums at the Cologne University of Music from 2006 to 2012 with Keith Copeland , Michael Küttner and Jonas Burgwinkel and with Gerry Hemingway and Pierre Favre in Lucerne.

Calman presented two albums with the Offshore Quintet and the album Drift with the Olaf Lind Quartet . He also performed with Marc Ducret , Manfred Schoof , Gerd Dudek , Florian Ross , Pablo Held , Niels Klein , Henning Berg , Théo Ceccaldi and Matthias Erlewein . He presented his game at international festivals such as the Moers Festival , the Leverkusener Jazztage , the Tremplin Jazz in Avignon, the Bavarian Jazzweekend, the Music Triennale Cologne and the Rhenish Festival Vive le Jazz . He can also be heard on albums by Iceland , Gruenewald and Colonel Petrov's Good Judgment .

Prizes and awards

Calman has been a Yehudi Menuhin Foundation scholarship holder since 2010. In 2011 he received an Erasmus grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and the Swiss Confederation. In the same year he won the Convento Jazz Prize NRW.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Colonel Petrov's Good Judgment , moers-festival.de June 3, 2017, accessed October 17, 2017
  2. ↑ Gruenwald III (review; baby blue pages)
personal data
SURNAME Calman, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Siegburg