Robert Lucaciu

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Robert Lucaciu

Robert Lucaciu (born August 12, 1988 in Plauen ) is a German jazz musician ( double bass , cello ), composer and music producer of Romanian origin.

Live and act

Lucaciu first played the cello and had lessons in this subject for 12 years. From 2005 he studied as a young student and from 2008 regularly classical double bass with Thomas Stahr , as well as jazz double bass at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater with Pepe Berns .

From 2010 to 2012 he leads the band Castravez , for whom he composed and with whom he released the album Tagtraum in 2011 . Lucaciu currently plays in the formations PLOT with Sebastian Wehle and Philipp Scholz and Nautilus with Philipp Scholz, Hayden Chisholm and Jürgen Friedrich . He also performed regularly with musicians such as Uli Kempendorff , Werner Neumann , Achim Kaufmann , Johannes Enders , Arne Jansen and Eva Klesse . In March 2015 he released a solo recording called monaxia .

From 2010 to 2014 he was the artistic director of the weekly concerts in the Telegraph live club (which are realized by the Leipzig Jazz Club , on whose advisory board he sits). He is also, together with his brother Antonio Lucaciu and Sascha Stiehler , the founder of the music label Egolaut Leipzig .

Since the winter semester 2018 Robert Lucaciu has been a lecturer for the main subject jazz double bass at the Hanover University of Music and Drama. His two brothers Antonio Lucaciu and Simon Lucaciu are also musicians.

Prizes and awards

Lucaciu has received multiple scholarships from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and has received other awards, including 2005 and 2007 from the State Ministry for Science and Art of Saxony and in 2009 from the Hans & Eugenia Jütting Foundation. In 2007 he received the studio prize at the Jugend jazzt competition . In November 2014 the band PLOT won the Young Munich Jazz Prize . With the Eva Klesse Quartet, he was named “Newcomer of the Year” with the ECHO Jazz in 2015. In 2016 he received the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award.

Discographic notes

  • Castravez Daydream (Egolaut Leipzig, 2011)
  • Home work plot (Egolaut Leipzig, 2012)
  • The Blue Pony Two Thoughts ( Unit Records , 2014, with Johannes Moritz, Sebastian Wehle, Philipp Scholz)
  • monaxia (otherunwise, 2015 - solo)
  • Plot Tightrope ( WhyPlayJazz , 2015)
  • Eva Klesse Quartet Obenland ( enja 2016, with Evgeny Ring , Philip Frischkorn )
  • Arne Jansen Nine Firmaments ( Traumton 2016, with Eric Schaefer )

Web links

Commons : Robert Lucaciu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.hohen-neuendorf-internet.de/Artikel/Arne-Jansen-Trio/2174
  2. ↑ Plot's website
  3. ↑ , which performed at Jazzahead 2015, among others . See Nautilus
  4. ↑ [1] monaxia
  5. ↑ For self-realization: The new jazz label Egolaut in Leipzig wants to establish a scene , Jazzzeitung 2011
  6. ↑ Biographical data on Jazzkalender
  7. ↑ Press release on the young Munich Jazz Prize
  8. ↑ Robert Lucaciu receives the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award 2016
  9. ^ Sovereign Debut , Leipziger Volkszeitung July 26, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Lucaciu, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen