Sven Kerschek

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Sven Kerschek (* 1973 in Flensburg ) is a German jazz musician ( guitar , also bass guitar ).

Life

Kerschek, who comes from a family of musicians, studied jazz guitar at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . Both as a guitarist and as a bassist, he made numerous recordings, including for radio; he is active in numerous bands, such as Lautgut76 , the Gabriel Coburger Quartet, the Quintet Jean Paul and the Lisa Stick Quintet . Sebastian Gille , Oliver Potratz and John Schröder belong to his own quartet . He has also worked in theater productions with Wolfram Apprich and can be heard on recordings with Dieter Glawischnig , John Schröder, Stephan Meinberg , Jonas Schoen , Ulita Knaus , Christoph Schönherr and the NDR Bigband .

Prizes and awards

In 1997, Kerschek and the Test Series group won the Association and West Bank youth culture award . In 2011 he was a winner of the Jugendkulturell Förderpreis. In 2012 he received the Werner Burkhardt Music Prize as a musician, “who has been adding his personal touch to numerous Hamburg jazz formations in an emphatic and unpretentious way for many years. “He was recognized as a“ conspicuously inconspicuous and therefore indispensable master of versatility for the scene; he always makes music on the guitar and the bass to a high degree individually and yet so useful that his contribution to the group sound looks more like a watermark, not a stamp. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release Werner Burkhardt Music Prize 2012 ( Memento from June 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kerschek, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (guitar, also bass guitar)
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg