Tilman Herpichboehm

Til­man Her­pich­böhm, born in Augs­burg, Ger­many, and rai­sed on music, took his first drum les­sons with Heiko Tuch at the age of seven. He soon became a mem­ber of the renow­ned kids-drum-ensemble "Die Trom­mel­kin­der", with which he per­for­med in a lot of con­certs on stage and on the radio both locally and abroad.

At quite an early age he gai­ned expe­ri­ence in the rock/pop busi­ness with, for example, the locally high-flying group "Tilly And The Wild Boys", which enthu­ sed audi­en­ces for more than eight years with their sixties-orientated ori­gi­nal com­po­si­ti­ons and a Ham­mond organ. At that time they also pro­du­ced two stu­dio albums.

Par­al­lel to this, Til­man Her­pich­böhm was deve­lo­ping as a ver­si­fied jazz- drummer. This inclu­ded a myriad of gigs wit­hin the whole spec­trum of these stylistics.

In 2006 he took up his aca­de­mic stu­dies of jazz-drumset at the Nurem­berg School of Music (Hoch­schule für Musik Nürn­berg) with Hans-Günter Brod­ mann and Johan­nes Nied. In his diploma the­sis he rese­ar­ched bohe­mian play­ ing methods and the adap­tion of acoustic effect per­cus­sions on the drum­set. This work reflects his inte­rests in the ever­las­ting search for inno­va­tive sounds on his instrument.

In his enga­ge­ment in 2009 at the Stadt­thea­ter Augs­burg he was able to apply and dis­play these spe­cial skills in the modern inter­pre­ta­tion of the Greek tra­ gedy "Helena".

His gra­dua­tion con­cert in the sum­mer of 2010 was dedi­ca­ted to the saxo­pho­ nist and com­po­ser John Zorn, and espe­cially to Zorn’s group "Masada". Til­man Her­pich­böhm gra­dua­ted with summa cum laude and since then has been atten­ding clas­ses lea­ding to a master’s at the Nurem­berg School of Music (HfM Nürnberg).

In May 2011 the album "Lebens­weis­hei­ten" by Mannheim’s humor-jazzgroup "Ohro­pack" – his bro­ther Jonas Herpichböhm’s main-projekt – was released in the course of a four-week-tour through Ger­many. Janu­ary 2012 Til­man Her­pich­böhm won the Bruno-Rother-Stipendium of the Rotary-Club Nuremberg-Fürth in a duo with Saxo­pho­nist Johan­nes Lud­wig and in March 2012 the first Ger­man Place at the Jazz Prix in Strau­bing with "Ohro­pack". Tilman’s quar­tet Jil­man Zil­man publis­hed their debut-album in May 2012 with Nuremberg’s Label Label11 in the collector’s serie "Edi­tion Metro­pol­mu­sik". During a eight-day-tour through sou­thern Ger­many the CD has been suc­cess­ fully released.

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