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Erhan Ersin

Guitarist & Composer Istanbul born Turkish guitarist and composer, starting on classical guitar at the age of 15. Then rock and jazz in the following years. At the age of 16, starting to play with his high school band and won the “Best Perfroming Band of Turkey” award in a nationwide music competition. After his intensive study of guitar and composition as self-taught musician, he moved to England to improve his musical talent at the age of 19. Afterwards musical journey continued in Germany and France. Over the years, he performed as accomplished musician in Europe by playing together with bands and styles like jazz, big band, rock, blues, funk, soul, new age, aiming to expand his musical vision

Yorgos Dimitriadis

Yorgos Dimitriadis, born 1964 in Thessaloniki Greece, is an experimental musician, composer performer based in Berlin. Using percussion, microphones, field recordings and minimal electronics his music focuses on real time sonic landscapes, with an emphasis on timbre, sound color and long durations.

Since 2006 he lives in Berlin and appears at festivals and concert series worldwide.
He has performed/recorded as a soloist and in collaboration with an array of renowned international artists like Audrey Chen, Paul Dunmall, Tristan Honsinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Matthias Bauer, Frank Gratkowski, Lori Freedman, Michel Doneda, Amir ElSaffar, Tobias Delius, Marc Turner, Hilary Jeffery, Robin Hayward, Oguz Büyükberber, Meinrad Kneer, Silke Eberhard and many more.

Dustin Drews

Dan Peter Sundland

Born: July 15, 1986

Born in Oslo, Norway, 15th July, 1986. Grew up in a village outside Trondheim, Norway called Børsa. Started playing bass at age 14, studied with bass players Andreas Bergsland (the first two years) and Mattis Kleppen (the next seven). Attended the jazz department of Sund Folk College 2005-06. Attained a bachelors degree in performing jazz at the jazz department of NTNU Music Institute in Trondheim in 2010. Attained a European Jazz Masters degree (EUJAM) at the jazz department of NTNU Music Institute in Trondheim in 2013 with exchange to Berlin Jazz Institute (Spring 2012) and Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen (Fall 2012). Teachers include Bjørn Alterhaug, Mattis Kleppen, Ole Morten Vågan, Mats Eilertsen, Michael F

Iven Hausmann

was born in East Berlin got first trombone lessons at the age of nine from 1982 to 1986 classical music studies at the Berlin conservatory "Hanns Eisler" between 1982 and 1988 he played in numerous Jazz projects and concerts in east Germany - member of "FUSION" later ~TEMP cooperation with Jay Oliver, Barre Philips, Conny & JohannesBauer, Ulrich Gumpert, Manfred Hering, Keith Tippett, Pierre Doerge, Sirone Jones, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Vinko Globokar, Joachim & Rolf Kühn, Peter Fox and many others from 1988 to 1991 he also played in the improvising ensemble "Kairos" together with Simon - and Markus Stockhausen since 1993 organized the Jazz Unis and Jazz Focus Festival Berlin works with the chamber ensemble Neue Musik Berlin since 1994 from 1988 to 1995 in performances of Karlheinz Stockhausen 1991 to 1993 theatre work with mentally handicapped persons 1996 Helmut Oehring and "Kammerensemble neue Musik" "D'Amato-System" (Münchener Biennale, Hebbel-Theater) 1998 cooperation with the Compagnia Elettra de Salvo / Italy 1998 world premiere of Raum-Zeit V by Radu Malfatti since 1987 Hausmann worked in several guest performances in Europe, Canada, USA

Eyal Lovett

Born: April 12, 1981

Israeli born pianist-composer Eyal Lovett creates a wide range of music. Although classically trained, he is deeply immersed in the jazz tradition, as well as in the diverse music located in Israel and the Middle East. Eyal is a former student of renowned teachers such as Sarah Tal, Rachel Feinstein (classical music), Amit Golan, Ofer Ganor, Omri Mor, Yuval Cohen and Alon Yavnai (jazz). He is an award winning alumni of the first class of the prestigious joint program for exceptional jazz students of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and The Israeli Conservatory

Mara & David

From the Darkness: Mara & David Find Moments of Collapse and Brightness on Call it Freedom “It’s such hard work, sometimes,” reflects singer Mara von Ferne. “We lay down and we pace, we jam and drink cup after cup of coffee. Then there comes this magic moment from out of nowhere. It often takes a day or two, but then it all makes sense. “Anyone in the room would notice this moment,” adds guitarist David Sick. “It’s in the air. There’s a moment when the whole thing collapses, and the idea comes. Then the song is the song.” With an organic finesse captured in those key transformative moments, German singer-songwriter duo Mara & David meld rock drive with classical technique, turning personal trials into elegant musical statements

Tobias Christl

Born: March 7, 1978

Tobias Christl, DOB 1978, is a rarity, a singer the likes of which there never was before in German jazz. Neither a crooner nor a scatter, and least of all a pop musician disguised as a jazzer. Much more a storyteller, somewhere between indie and improvisation. A Berliner by choice, Christl is a vocal artist, a songwriter, improviser, speaker, composer, DJ and co-founder of the Cologne KLAENG collective. He plays piano and keyboards, clarinet and guitar, and studied, among others, under Theo Bleckmann in New York. "Wildern" (poaching) is the title of his ACT Young German Jazz debut

Jazzy Berlin

New Jazz songs 2013 The jazz singer and composer Jazzy Berlin is a musician from the Berlin Jazz scene. From the young Jakie Rabinowitz who dreamt to be a jazz musician in the American musical film The jazz singer, also Jazzy berlin had the same dreams in his small neighborhood in Israel, to bring his jazz songs to the world. The art of the moment There is a lot of famous jazz singers that influenced Jazzy like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Jolson and Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker. With this great Jazz legacy by composing new jazz songs Jazzy trying to combing the love of old fashion jazz and new modern sound and rhythms like a live swinging performance with a laundry machine and other analog sounds on stage. Sharing the love for jazz songs Jazzy write Jazz songs for others musicians and happy to share his love and music with the best new jazz singers of 2012 from all over the world. Spicing Jazz with drama A lot of listeners are a big fans of the cool relaxing jazz music that they heard in the jazz radio

Julie Sassoon

British pianist/composer Julie Sassoon is classically trained on piano and violin. She graduated in music and fine art in 1988, winning prizes for her classical piano performances and later completed postgraduate studies in jazz piano and Indian violin.

She came to the attention of critics and audiences in 2000, when she formed the remarkable ‘Azilut!’ trio with drummer Bart van Helsdingen and reeds player Lothar Ohlmeier, praised as ‘capable of miracles’ by the Guardian.

Whether touring with Max Richter’s ’Piano Circus’, opening Berlin’s prestigious contemporary music festival, Maerzmusik with Julius Eastman’s 4-piano works or playing solo at the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, the London Jazz Festival, the Royal Festival Hall with the legendary band Oregon or with Enrico Pieranunci, collaborating with Israeli singer Efrat Alony, trumpeter Tom Arthurs and drummer, master of free improvisation Willi Kellers, Julie Sassoon’s musical versatility takes her world-wide.