Sebastian Studnitzky

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Sebastian Studnitzky
Jazz Festival San-Javier 2016
Sebastian Studnitzky (2015)

Sebastian Studnitzky (* 1972 in Neuenbürg , Black Forest ) is a German jazz trumpeter , jazz pianist and composer .

Live and act

Sebastian Studnitzky is the son of the composer and conductor Norbert Studnitzky . From the age of four he learned to play the piano and from the age of eight he learned to play the trumpet. He studied trumpet and piano in jazz & pop at the Stuttgart State University of Music and then moved to the United States, where he completed a film music / commercial arranging course at Berklee College of Music as a scholarship holder .

Studnitzky initially worked with Markus Kössler as a radio brother . He plays with the jazz musicians Nils Landgren , Wolfgang Haffner and Rebekka Bakken , but also with Mezzoforte , Edo Zanki , Laith al Deen , Jazzanova and the guitarist Dominic Miller . Studnitzky is on tour in various formations with his own works ( triband / band with Sandie Wollasch, Michael Paucker and Tommy Baldu - Studnitzky / Trio, Memento, KY - with Paul Kleber , Tim Sarhan and Laurenz Karsten). Memento presents his classic-jazz crossover project for string quartet / chamber orchestra.

Studnitzky is co-founder and co-owner of the independent label / network CONTEMPLATE and the international booking agency XJAZZ Booking. As artistic director with Xjazz in Berlin since 2014, he has “implemented a completely new concept for a jazz festival”. In 2015 he won the ECHO Jazz in the category "Instrumentalist of the year national brass instruments". Studnitzky is a professor for trumpet at the universities of music in Dresden and Berlin.

Sebastian Studnitzky acted as workshop director for the Xjazz Lab Workshop Camp during the Xjazz Festival 2018 .

Discographic notes

  • 2008: Trio (Herzog Records)
  • 2010: EGIS (Herzog Records)
  • 2012: Music for Magic Places (Contemplate)
  • 2012: KY - Do Mar (Contemplate)
  • 2013: KY - The String Project (Contemplate)
  • 2015: Memento (Contemplate)
  • 2017: KY - Organic (Contemplate)
  • 2019: KY - Live in Berlin (XJAZZ music)
  • 2019: A Bernstein Story with Sebastian Manz (Berlin Classics / EDEL)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Studnitzky | KY. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  2. ^ Memento - Sebastian Studnitzky. Retrieved February 7, 2018 (American English).
  3. ↑ Sebastian Studnitzky Linkedin. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 7, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.linkedin.com  
  4. ↑ Nabil Atassi in conversation with Sebastian Studnitzky about the Xjazz Festival (NDR Jazz Talk) ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Bundesverband Musikindustrie: ECHO Jazz 2015: The winners have been announced . ( echojazz.de [accessed on February 6, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Info - Sebastian Studnitzky. Retrieved February 5, 2018 (American English).
  7. ↑ Jazz Institute Berlin. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  8. ↑ xjazzlab. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Studnitzky, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenbürg , Black Forest