Knollektiv at Loft

tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro

doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET

Johannes Knoll was born on 30.12.2000 in Hildesheim, Germany, and started playing the Trumpet when he was five years old. At age seven, he put his early musical experience to use by playing in several ensembles with the local music school.

Johannes spent a great deal of time making music with his older brother Alexander Weigand (born Knoll). Through this experience he discovered his passion for musical improvisation, and with his brother playing the bassline on his trombone, improvised melodies in different musical genres....

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tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro

doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET

Johannes Knoll was born on 30.12.2000 in Hildesheim, Germany, and started playing the Trumpet when he was five years old. At age seven, he put his early musical experience to use by playing in several ensembles with the local music school.

Johannes spent a great deal of time making music with his older brother Alexander Weigand (born Knoll). Through this experience he discovered his passion for musical improvisation, and with his brother playing the bassline on his trombone, improvised melodies in different musical genres.
Soon he dedicated more and more of his time to playing Jazz and, in 2013, began taking lessons with Jazz trumpet player Karsten Brudy at the local school for music in Hildesheim. Through his experience there he was able to continue adding to his already extensive skill set, practically as well as in music theory. In 2014, Johannes founded the Jazz-trio “Easy Moving”.

Johannes also continued playing lots of classical music and joined the Symphonic Youth Orchestra of Lower Saxony in 2014. In 2016 he was invited to join the Jazz Youth Orchestra of Lower Saxony “Wind Machine”. That same year he won the “Jugend Jazzt” competition with his band “Easy Moving” in Lower Saxony.

Over the next few years he dove into the Hanover music scene and played in the “Tonband” and assisted the Big Band at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Early 2017 Johannes began taking lessons from trumpet player Benny Brown in Hamburg. Later that year he won first place at the national competition “Jugend Musiziert” with a classical brass quintet.

2019 Johannes was asked to play with the “LaJazzO”, the Jazz Orchestra in Brandenburg, under the direction of Jiggs Wigham. He also finished his German Secondary School Diploma (Abitur) at the Gymnasium Andreanum Hildesheim and got into the HfMT Hochschule für Musik und Theater (University of Music and Drama) in Hamburg, where he has been studying jazz trumpet with Claus Stötter since October 2019. In 2020, at the age of 19, he became a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. In spring 2021 Johannes founded his band – the “Knollektiv” – which can be heard regularly on German stages. He has been a scholarship holder of the “Oscar und Vera Ritterstiftung” since November 2021.

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