Roman Babik

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Roman Babik (* 1981 in Remscheid ) is a German jazz musician (piano, arrangement).

Live and act

Babik studied jazz piano from 2001 to 2006 at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen with Thomas Hufschmidt and Peter Walter. In addition to his studies, he also took lessons with Bernard Maury at the Paris Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger until 2002 .

Babik was brought into his Electric Quartet by Wolfgang Schmidtke ; he also worked at Club des Belugas and Jan Kazda . He played u. a. at the The Hague Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival and as a soloist several times at the Montreux Jazz Festival . After more than 10 years of cooperation with a native of Kiev saxophonist Dimitrij Markitantov he founded his Urban Wedding Band with Markitanov, Bodek Janke and Martin Gjakonovski (as guest on the 2013 released album Hit and Tony Lakatos involved). He also worked in a duo with drummer Bernd Oezsevim and in a quartet Small Friendly Giant with singer Anna Luca Mohrhenn.

Since 2013 he has been teaching as a lecturer at the Cologne University of Music, Wuppertal department , and since 2016 as a lecturer for jazz and pop piano at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal .

Prizes and awards

Babik received the Folkwang Prize in 2003 for his academic achievements. In 2005 he received the Jazzwerkruhr award with Natalie Hausmann's band le diffus . He was also a finalist or semi-finalist in numerous competitions, including a. the Bösendorfer solo jazz piano competition in Montreux (2006, 2007 and 2010) and the international jazz piano competition in Nottingham (2008, 2010). He was also awarded the Lower Saxony Jazz Prize. In 2016 he received the Von der Heydt Prize of the City of Wuppertal ; the jury recognized him as follows: “Babik's instrumental playing is a counterpoint to the common piano aesthetics. Anyone who sits in a Babik concert will experience an improviser who, with esprit, brilliant technique and planning intelligence, goes to the limit of what is feasible - powerful, dynamically growing and with constant rhythmic pressure. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release on the City of Wuppertal's 2016 Culture Prize. June 24, 2016, accessed on May 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Babik, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (piano, arrangement)
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid