Tobias Meinhart

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Tobias Meinhart (* 1983 in Regensburg ) is a German modern jazz musician ( soprano and tenor saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Meinhart, who grew up in Wörth an der Donau , came to music through his grandfather, a double bass player. He started playing drums at the age of seven and switched to the saxophone at the age of 13. At the age of 17 he accompanied the Bob Brookmeyer Orchestra as a roadie on a tour to Portugal. He first studied with Domenic Landolf at the Musikhochschule in Basel in order to continue his diploma studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Bern University of the Arts ; he graduated with distinction in 2009. He mentions Johannes Enders as another important teacher besides Landolf .

Meinhart has been leading his own quartet since 2008, with whom he released his first album in 2010, which he presented in six countries. Further albums followed, including a live recording of a concert he gave in 2012 with the band, which had expanded to a quintet, at the Getxo Jazz Festival in Bilbao, Spain.

Meinhart has lived in New York City since August 2010, where he completed a master's degree in jazz performance at Queens College in 2012 . He played with Aaron Goldberg and went on concert tour with Ingrid Jensen . In 2013 he also toured Germany with the formation The Big Jazz Thing (album A Next Generation Celebration ). He can also be heard on the album Hidden Roots (2014) by singer Júlia Karosi. He also appears as a duo with the pianist Lorenz Kellhuber .

In 2015 Meinhart presented his fourth CD Natural Perception - Phil Donkin played bass , Jesse Simpson from San Francisco played drums, Spaniard Yago Vázquez played piano and Ingrid Jensen played trumpet. In autumn 2015 the band was on tour in Europe. In 2016 he recorded the next CD Brooklyn Aliens for Unit Records in New York with the musicians Yago Vázquez, Rodrigro Recabarren, Lars Ekmann and Gianni Gagliardi. This was followed by Silent Dreamer on Enja Records in 2017 and the album Berlin People on Sunnyside in 2019 .

Prizes and awards

Meinhart won 2006 with the group Fourscore at Jugend jazzt . He and his quartet were honored at Startbahn Jazz in 2009 and in the same year received the audience award for best band at the Getxo Jazz Festival, where he was awarded the soloist award in 2012.

Discographic notes

  • Berlin People (Sunnyside, 2019) with Ludwig Hornung , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Tom Berkmann , Mathias Ruppnig
  • Silent Dreamer (Enja Records, 2017 with Ingrid Jensen, Charles Altura, Orlando LeFleming, Phil Donkin, Yago Vazquez, Justin Carroll)
  • Natural Perception (Enja Records, 2015, with Phil Donkin, Jesse Simpson, Yago Vazquez, Ingrid Jensen)
  • In Between ( Double Moon , 2014, with Lorenz Kellhuber, Rocky Knauer , Gabriel Hahn and Camila Meza , Emilia Taubic, Tobias Christl )
  • Pursuit of Happiness (Double Moon, 2011, Lorenz Kellhuber, Olivier Hein, Gabriel Hahn)
  • Fourscore Add to Friends (INT, 2007, with Alex Jung, Heiko Jung , Nevyan Lenkow)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pursuit of Happiness (Jazzthing)
  2. ↑ New CD, new band and a woman Mittelbayerische Zeitung, October 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ Meeting (Jazzthing)
personal data
SURNAME Meinhart, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (saxophone, band leader)
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg