Titian Jost
Titian Jost (* 8. August 1966 in Kassel as Hans Christian Jost ) is a German jazz pianist and - vibraphonist .
Live and act
Jost received his first piano lessons at the age of six; he also learned the cello and organ . He also took private lessons from Pepsi Auer , Paul Grabowsky and Mal Waldron . Since moving to Munich in 1985 he has been a professional jazz musician there. First he had engagements with the trumpeter and composer Franz-David Baumann , as a pianist in the big band of Harald Rüschenbaum and from 1987 to 1991 as the resident pianist of the jazz club Allotria in Munich's Türkenstrasse. There he played with musicians such as Mark Murphy , Dusko Goykovich , Roman Schwaller , Thomas Stabenow , Tony Lakatos and others. a. From 1987 to 2000 he worked with the tenor saxophonist Günther Klatt . This collaboration took the two on extensive tours through South and Central America, the Indian subcontinent and a large number of European countries. From 1990 to 2002 he was co-leader of the Brazilian band Domundo , together with the singer Lygia Campos and the drummer Claudio Wilner.
He can also be heard on albums by Claus Reichstaller / Axel Kühn and Sophie Wegener . He also recorded four trio CDs under his own name for the Japanese record label Atelier Sawano . In 2012 his CD Afternoon in Rio was released with Paulo Morello , Erivelton Silva , Wolfgang Lackerschmid and Hendrik Meurkens .
He has been a lecturer since 1995 and professor of jazz piano as a major since 2015, at the Richard Strauss Conservatory until 2008 , and since then - after the Conservatory merged with the Munich Conservatory - at the Munich University of Music and Theater . His former pupils and students include a. Benedikt Jahnel , Chris Gall , Marc Schmolling , Antje Uhle , Andrea Hermenau and Tim Allhoff .
Since December 2012 Tizian Jost has been the chairman of the regional working group Jazz in Bavaria eV.
Web links
Lexical entries
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jost, Titian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jost, Hans-Christian (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz pianist and vibraphonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |