tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
Born in Munich in 1990 as the son of a church musician, Lorenz Kellhuber began classical piano training with Brigitte Schmid at the HfKM Regensburg at the age of five. At the age of eleven, he was accepted there as a junior student and, as a member of the Bavarian early childhood development class, was also taught violin and chamber music by Prof. Conrad von der Goltz. From 2003, he received piano lessons from Prof. Franz Massinger, a student of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Shortly afterwards, he was discovered by Rob Bargad (Nat Adderley Quintet) and intensively introduced to the jazz style. At the age of just 16, Kellhuber passed the highly gifted exam and became a student at the Jazz Institute Berlin, where Hubert Nuss and Kurt Rosenwinkel were among his teachers. During regular stays in New York, he also received lessons from Fred Hersch and Sophia Rosoff and graduated in 2010 as one of the world’s youngest bachelor graduates....
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
Born in Munich in 1990 as the son of a church musician, Lorenz Kellhuber began classical piano training with Brigitte Schmid at the HfKM Regensburg at the age of five. At the age of eleven, he was accepted there as a junior student and, as a member of the Bavarian early childhood development class, was also taught violin and chamber music by Prof. Conrad von der Goltz. From 2003, he received piano lessons from Prof. Franz Massinger, a student of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Shortly afterwards, he was discovered by Rob Bargad (Nat Adderley Quintet) and intensively introduced to the jazz style. At the age of just 16, Kellhuber passed the highly gifted exam and became a student at the Jazz Institute Berlin, where Hubert Nuss and Kurt Rosenwinkel were among his teachers. During regular stays in New York, he also received lessons from Fred Hersch and Sophia Rosoff and graduated in 2010 as one of the world’s youngest bachelor graduates.
Since then, his concerts have taken him throughout Europe, the USA and South America. He has played on international stages such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Isarphilharmonie Munich, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Montreux Jazz Festival, Basel Jazz Festival, Getxo Jazz Festival, Bohemia Jazz Festival, Mar del Plata Jazz Festival, Jazzwoche Burghausen.
He has played concerts as a sideman and co-leader alongside Ed Partyka, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charles Lloyd, Ack van Rooyen, Johannes Enders, Adele Neuhauser & Edi Nulz, Jesse Simpson, Orlando Le Fleming, Steven Heelein, Obed Calvaire, Bob Mintzer and many more.
In summer 2014, Monty Alexander named him the first German musician to win the prestigious Montreux Jazz Piano Solo Competition. In 2016, he was nominated for the ECHO Jazz in the „Newcomer of the Year“ category, and in 2018 he was one of the ten „new key players“ in the magazine „Jazz thing“.
He has released a total of nine albums and one EP since 2012, including the solo albums „Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival“ (2017), „Contemporary Chamber Music“ (2021) and „Live at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg“ (2022).
Since completing his studies, Lorenz Kellhuber has been a sought-after lecturer. He regularly gives workshops and masterclasses in Germany and abroad. In the winter semester of 2021, Kellhuber was appointed professor at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. Together with childhood friends, Lorenz Kellhuber founded the Regensburg Chamber Music Festival in 2020, which he continues to direct and curate.
https://www.lorenzkellhuber.com/
Born in 1984 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Joe Sanders has been interested in a variety of sounds since his youth, whether in the form of blues from the radio or music in the Baptist church filled with sublime voices.
Since leaving the Midwest for California in 2002 to study at the Brubeck Institute, he has had the good fortune to play and learn alongside such greats as Dave Brubeck, Christian McBride, Terence Blanchard, Ron Carter, Roy Hargrove, John Clayton, Jimmy Heath, Joshua Redman, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd, Wayne Shorter and Geri Allen.
After successfully graduating from the Thelonious Monk Institute in 2007, where he has since studied, Sanders moved to New York City and quickly became an integral part of the thriving New York jazz scene.
His versatility as a bassist is evidenced by over 30 CD recordings as a sideman. As a bandleader, he most recently released the album „Humanity“, which featured Aaron Parks, Eric Harland and John Ellis.
https://www.themusicofjoesanders.com/
Jesse Simpson, born in 1989, hails from Graton, California. After growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area and studying with legendary drummer Donald „Duck“ Bailey, he moved to New York City in 2007, where he quickly made a name for himself in the local jazz scene and began studying at the Manhattan School of Music, graduating in 2010.
Since then, Simpson has performed alongside Louie Bellson, accompanied comedians Fred Armisen and Janeane Garafalo and toured with jazz greats such as Marc Copland, Kevin Hays, Joe Lovano, John Abercrombie, Chris Cheek and many others. He is also a very successful maker of drum cymbals, on which he himself and many other well-known jazz drummers now play. After 15 years in New York City, Simpson moved to Prague in 2022, from where he now enriches the European jazz scene.
https://www.jessesimpson.com/
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