Tim Sund

Tim Sund (born March 4, 1971 in Hohenlimburg ) is a German jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Live and act

Sund received his first music lessons at the age of six; he started playing the classical piano when he was eight years old. Then he played in the Hagen rock band Tin Pan Alley . At the age of 15 he discovered jazz. He took part in workshops with Joanne Brackeen , Walter Norris , Bob Degen and Richie Beirach and won 1st prize in the 1988 youth jazz competition . He began his studies at the Cologne University of Music and Dance , before Beirach brought him to New York for private studies in 1993. After graduating from the Cologne University of Music in 1995, she completed a master's degree in classical composition at the Manhattan School of Music with Ludmila Ulehla .

Even then he was accompanying Ernie Watts and had recorded his debut album About Time . The Borderlands duo with saxophonist Claudius Valk , produced by Beirach, soon followed as a second CD . In the mid-1990s he composed his piano concerto Towards the Lotus Shrine and played the world premiere of Ulehla's Sonata for Improvisation with Valk . In New York he founded his quintet with Joel Frahm , Gregor Hübner , bassist Mark P. Brown and drummer Andreas Griefingholt, with whom the 1997 album In the Midst of Change was created.

Sund moved to Berlin in autumn 1997, but continued touring with this quintet, in which Carlos Bica replaced on bass. His second album was The Rains from a Cloud Do not Wet the Sky in 2000 . In 2002 he released the album Trialogue as a trio (with Martin Lillich and Michael Kersting ) . In the following years solo productions were made. Tom Christensen and Tomas Ulrich formed a quartet dedicated to the third stream .

To include rock influences as well as the use of electronics and keyboards, he founded his band The Mighties Ever in 2009 with Valentin Gregor , Christiankap, Guilherme Castro and Kai Schoenburg, who recorded the album Now in 2011 and is still active today. He also accompanied Daniel Mattar and Erika Rojo ( Das Lied , 1999).

Sund heads the keyboard instrument department at the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Music School in Berlin, where he teaches the subjects of piano, theory, ear training, music history and ensemble playing as part of the jazz preparation course.

Web links

• Web presence
• Tim Sund at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ entry (jazz calendar)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tim Sund took his first musical steps in Hagen