Tobias Schirmer

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Tobias Schirmer (born November 1, 1982 in Fulda ) is a German jazz musician ( drums ).

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Schirmer grew up in Schlüchtern in a family of amateur musicians. At the age of two and a half, he tried out his father's drumsticks. In elementary school he received recorder lessons , and from 1989 private piano lessons were added. At the age of nine he began to learn the trumpet in the Schlüchtern town band. In 1991 he rediscovered the drums on which he was taught. From 1993 he was a member of the big band of the Schlüchtern town band, a little later he was also active in the big band of the Ulrich-von-Hutten-Gymnasium, where he played trumpet, vibraphone and bass in addition to drums. He was first prize winner three times at the Hessian state competition youth jazz ; For five years he was a percussionist and drummer in the State Youth Jazz Orchestra of Hesse under Wolfgang Diefenbach . Soon he also played in the big band Route 66 (in which his father was also active), the combo Jazz Fingers by Dirk Raufeisen , the groups of Flip Gehring and the Götz Ommert Trio. Since 2000 he took drum and percussion lessons in the Musikwerkstatt Frankfurt ; from 2001 he was also a visiting student at the University of Music Würzburg with Mark Lutz. There he then studied classical percussion and jazz drums. After completing his studies, he received a teaching position in Würzburg.

Schirmer has since played at the Montreal Jazz Festival , the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and JazzAscona . As a classical percussionist , he worked with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie , the Ensemble Kontraste and Klaus Hinrich Stahmer (album drums on Wergo ). He was part of Frank Selten's Fourth Group and the Blue Moon Orchestra . He also performed with Ernie Watts , Ken Peplowski , Brenda Boykin , Ray Bryant , Herb Geller , Tony Lakatos , Günter Lenz and Hugo Strasser . He also developed solo concerts in which he experimented with new worlds of sound from repurposed sound bodies such as brake disks and saw blades, but also with the interaction with computer programs.

He also plays at Classic Affairs with Christoph Sänger and Lindy Huppertsberg “jazzed up classical music.” Musically, he was involved in an African theater project with performances in Burkina Faso. Under the title “Time is out of joint”, he and the actor Boris Wagner performed texts by Heiner Müller at the 2015 Düsseldorf Festival . He can also be heard on albums by Dirk Raufeisen, Classic Affairs , Cleo & Jan Luley , the Jörg Hurter Quintet and Alexander Wienand .

In 2002 Schirmer was awarded the Main-Kinzig-Kreis Kultur-Förder-Preis and received the Bavarian Art Prize in 2010 with the Alexander Wienand Trio in the music and dance category . He is not to be confused with the clarinetist of the same name.

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  1. ↑ a b c Culture Prize Winner of the Main-Kinzig District
  2. ↑ Düsseldorf Festival 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda