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Tilo Weber
Drummer and composer from Berlin (Germany)
About Me
Tilo Weber (*1990 Aachen, Germany) is a drummer and composer from Berlin.
He received the Deutsche Jazzpreis in 2022 for the arrangement of the year.
He writes music for his own bands Four Fauns and takes the drum chair in bands such as The David Friedman Generations Trio and Generations Quartet, And the Golden Choir, and Y-Otis.
In 2017 Tilo Weber and David Friedman founded their own label Malletmuse Records.
Tilo is endorsing sticks from INNOVATIVE PERCUSSION and teaches at the university Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (HfMT).
Tilo Weber studied drums at the Jazz Institut Berlin from 2009 to 2014 with Prof. John Hollenbeck and Composition at the University for Music an Theater Hamburg from 2015 to 2017 with Prof. Ruta Paidere. In 2017 he studied classical percussion with percussionist and composer Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wulff in Freiburg. He also studied privately with Christoph Hillmann, Steffen Thormählen und Harald Ingenhag.
Collaborations with Greg Cohen, Peter Brötzmann, David Friedman, Rudi Mahall, Chris Dahlgren and Tobias Siebert bring him to the national stage (JazzBaltica Festival) and international festivals of various genres.
From 2015 to 2017 he received the Dr. E. A. Langner Scholarship in Hamburg and worked with the NDR Big Band.
Since 2017 Tilo Weber also plays drums at the famous Berliner Ensemble for the plays “Panikherz” and “Eine Familie”.
Debut Release of Animate Repose at shoebill music exclusively on 12″ Vinyl.
