Sebastian Scobel

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Sebastian Scobel (born June 9, 1987 in Dresden ) is a German jazz musician (piano, also Hammond organ , synthesizer, arrangement ).

Live and act

At the age of ten, Scobel had the desire to become a jazz pianist. After taking his first lessons in classical piano and chamber music at the Heinrich Schütz Conservatory in Dresden , he was trained in the subjects of classical and jazz piano at the Saxon State High School for Music from 2003 . Between 2006 and 2010 he was a pianist in the Landesjugendjazzorchester Sachsen, but also worked as a solo pianist with the Dresden Sinfoniker . From 2009 to 2013 he studied jazz piano and arrangement with Hubert Nuss , Joachim Ullrich , Florian Ross and Sebastian Sternal in Cologne. As a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra , he toured with the ensemble in the USA.

Currently (as of 2016) he works in the Filippa Gojo Quartet, the Trio Scobel- Kühnemann - Sauerborn , the Mengamo Trio , the quintet of Christine Corvisier , the quartet of Tamara Lukasheva and the Subway Jazz Orchestra . He also accompanied Patricia Kelly on her album Grace & Kelly .

Prizes and awards

In 2003 Scobel took part in the national competition Jugend musiziert for chamber music with "very good success". In 2006 he was first prize winner in the state competition “ Jugend jazzt ”, the following year he was a solo prize winner at the federal meeting “Jugend jazzt”; In 2009 he won the main prize with flaura & phona . In 2013 he took first place at the “Steinway Jazz NRW” in Düsseldorf. He won the New German Jazz Prize 2015 with the Filippa Gojo Quartet and the New German Jazz Prize 2017 with the Tamara Lukasheva Quartet. In the duo Bayer // Scobel with trumpeter Heidi Bayer , he won the Folkwang Jazz Prize in 2018 .

Sebastian Scobel (2nd from left) at the presentation of the New German Jazz Prize 2015

Discographic notes

  • flaura & phona Magisches U (self-distribution, 2009, with Samuel Dobernecker, Robert Lucaciu , Philipp Scholz )
  • Filippa Gojo Quartet close-up (A-Jazz 2012, with David Andres, Lukas Meile)
  • Christine Corvisier 5tet Reconnaissance ( Unit Records 2015, with Martin Schulte, David Andres, Thomas Sauerborn)
  • Tamara Lukasheva Patchwork of Time ( Double Moon Records 2016, with Jakob Kühnemann, Dominik Mahnig and Shannon Barnett and Liora Raps)
  • Filippa Gojo Quartet Seesucht ( JazzHausMusik 2017, with David Andres, Lukas Meile)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New German Jazz Prize 2017 , ig-jazz.de, accessed July 7, 2017
  2. ↑ Heidi Bayer Folkwang Prize 2018
personal data
SURNAME Scobel, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (piano)
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden