Roger Kintopf

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Roger Kintopf (born November 15, 1998 in Darmstadt ) is a German jazz musician ( double bass , composition ).

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Kintopf grew up in a musical family and gained experience on stage since childhood. He received classical piano lessons at an early age and initially won first prizes at Jugend musiziert and the International Rotary Piano Competition. He started playing the electric bass at the age of eleven before switching to the double bass. He was a member of the LandesJugendJazzOrchester Hessen, with which he performed in New York in 2015. From 2016 to 2018 Kintopf studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Dietmar Fuhr , Dieter Manderscheid and Jonas Burgwinkel . Since 2019 he has been studying at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris with Riccardo Del Fra .

Between 2016 and 2018 Kintopf was a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra , with whom he toured Ecuador and India in 2017 and whose albums Cuban Fire (2016) and Verley uns Frieden (2018) are documented. He appeared in the Pascal Klewer Big Band with Evan Parker , Kit Downes and Christian Lillinger and was involved in the album Chasing Memories (2019). He also played with musicians such as Loren Stillman , Frank Gratkowski , Billy Test and Jonas Burgwinkel and performed at festivals such as the Bonn Jazz Festival and the Eldena Jazz Evenings .

Since 2014 Kintopf has been working in the Trio First Circle with saxophonist Victor Fox and drummer Felix Ambach. In 2015 the trio won the DLF Studio Prize and the UDJ Special Prize for their outstanding compositions at the Federal Youth Meeting . In 2017, after their first album Conversations with the Unknown, the follow-up album GLÄÜÖ was released . With his quartet Structure , Kintopf was among the finalists of the Biberach Jazz Prize ( not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 ) . He can also be heard on Leon Maria Plecity's album Otherworld (2019) and works in the trio of singer Lina Knörr.

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  1. ↑ Concert announcement Jazzraum Hamburg
  2. ↑ Biberach Jazz Prize 2020
  3. ↑ meeting (jazz-fun.de)
personal data
SURNAME Kintopf, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (double bass, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt