“Vilnius JJazz ensemble” is an orchestra of 17 professional jazz musicians founded by trombonist, composer and arranger Jievar Jasinskis. The collective debuted in 2017 at the jazz festival “Broma Jazz” in Kėdainiai. There, the orchestra performed together with the vocal ensemble ‘The Backs’ and performed songs composed by Jievaras Jasinskis and Dorotėja Būdaitė, as well…
Jievaras Jasinskis is a trombone player, arranger and composer. He was born in 1989 in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2008 graduated “Balys Dvarionas” music school. Four years later graduated from “Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre” (LMTA), classical trombone class. In 2021 J. Jasinskis graduated master’s degree in composition (LMTA). Over the years Jievaras has arranged more…
Uwe Köller began his successful trumpet career in 1978, when he first became a student of Rodney Miller in Düsseldorf and later of Pierre Thibauld in Paris (until 1985). Afterwards he changed – as a scholarship holder of the “Herbert-von-Karajan-Foundation” – to Martin Kretzer (1986-1988). After these extraordinarily inspiring years of study, he began his…
Uwe Füssel (bass trombone) received his first trombone lessons at the age of 13. Just five years later he was awarded 1st prize in the national competition “Jugend musiziert”. From 1980 to 1984 he studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with Professor Johann Doms and Siegfried Cieslik. During his studies, Uwe Füssel was already…
Fritz Winter was born in Wolnzach and began as a tenor horn player in the local brass band. While still at school, he was a junior student at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg with Hansjörg Profanter. He then studied trombone with Prof. Michael Stern at the University of Music in Munich. After graduation, advanced…
Stefan Ambrosius (tuba) is the youngest member of the ensemble. At the age of 12, he first received tenor horn lessons from his father, later switching to the tuba. He began his music studies in 1999 at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken with Lennart Nord and switched to Stefan Heimann at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart in…
Horn soloist and teacher Frøydis Ree Wekre from Oslo, Norway, was studying piano and violin before turning to horn at the age of 17. Outside of Oslo, her studies have taken place in Sweden, Russia and USA. After a year working in the Norwegian Opera, she joined the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and played as co-principal…
Seri Dan grew up in Seoul, Korea, and started playing piano when she was 7 years old. At the age of about 11, her piano teacher noticed that she also has a talent for singing, so she started taking piano and singing lessons at the same time. Seri won a classical vocal competition in Seoul…
Miguel García Casas was born in 1994 in Les Coves de Vinromà (Castellón, Spain), where he began his musical studies with Israel Salvador and Félix García. Simultaneously to his official studies, he participated in numerous master classes and attended “Aula de Trombón Stomvi” with Carlos Gil and Inda Bonet. Afterwards he completed his Bachelor Degree…
Antti Ohenoja is presently solopercussionist and timpanist of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Antti is also a regular performer with orchestras like the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra of Seoul, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Ohenoja was a founding member of the Oulu Percussion Group,…
Bo Håkanson, 1970, is positioned in Malmö Symphony Orchestra as timpanist/percussionist since 1995. As a soloist with orchestra he has performed Mark Anthony Turnages Double Percussion Concerto, Fractured Lines, featured on a tour in Sweden with Malmö SO together with Lennart Gruvstedt, and premiered HK Grubers percussion concerto Rough Music in Sweden, with the composer…
Mark David, Principal Trumpet in the Academy of St Martin in the Fields has enjoyed a distinguished career as a performer with some of the most prestigious ensembles in the world. He has been described as “epitomising the very best of British Trumpet playing: clarity of tone, elegance of style and with sustained power when…
GERMAN BRASS – one of the finest brass ensembles in the world to come out of Germany. As a pioneer among brass ensembles, German Brass has not only written music history since its founding in 1974, but continues to perform its own success story. German Brass has succeeded in creating “diversity in unity”, i.e. to…
Andre Schoch has been a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2017 and holds a substitute professorship at Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts since 2021. From 2014 to 2017 he was principal trumpet at the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. Before that, engagements as principal trumpet took him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and…