Leonhard Skorupa

Born in 1988, he studied saxophone with Klaus Dickbauer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and participated in the renowned “New York comes to Groningen” program at the Prins Claus Conservatoire in the Netherlands, were he studied with Michael Moore. Furthermore, he attended workshops and took lessons with Andrew D’Angelo, Matt Wilson, Lew Tabakin, George Garzone, Don Braden, Mark Gross etc.)

Skorupa is an instrumentalist, composer and arranger living in Vienna and working internationally. He received a scholarship from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education Arts and Culture for his compositional work, is the winner of the “European Jazz Contest” and received the 2nd prize at the “Made in New York Jazz Competition” with the ensemble “Woody Black 4”. For the period of 2018/19 the ensemble is nominated for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ music support program “New Austrian Sound of Music”. With his group “Sketchbook Quartet” (NASOM Act for 2020-23) he is prize winner of the “Central Europe Jazz Competition” and performed with various ensembles internationally (Nattjazz Festival Bergen, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Südtirol Jazz Festival, Maastricht Jazz Festival, Jazzahead Bremen etc.). He is co-founder of “Waschsalon Records”, a Viennese label for Jazz and improvised music.  In the season 2020/21 Skorupa was leading the “Stageband” in the Jazz&Music club Porgy&Bess.

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