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American vibraphonist David Friedman undoubtedly belongs among the most respectable performers on this instrument. The boundless expressive power of his music finds its manifestation in numerous concert and recording performances with artists such as Leonard Bernstein, Bobby McFerrin, Wayne Shorter, George Benson or Yoko Ono. He earned his world renown as a pedagogue as the head of the Jazz Department of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
The Tambour Project led to association with musicians belonging to the European elite, tenor saxophonist Peter Weniger and bassist Pepe Berns.
Friedman took up the drums and xylophone during the 1950s and 1960s, graduating from the Juilliard School of Music. Besides this, he studied with Teddy Charles and Hall Overton. |
Peter Weniger was born in 1964 in Hamburg and is one of the spectacular saxophonists of the international jazz scene. This outstanding musician studied at the Music Academy in Hamburg, graduating in 1984. He continued his studies in Köln, graduating in 1992 summa cum laude.
Weniger has received numerous awards. With 9 CD releases, he has played with Hubert Nuss, Conrad Herwig, John Abercrombie, Rufus Reid, Adam Nussbaum, David Liebman, Karl Alan, Denis Ervin, John Schroeder, Jeff Hamilton, Christian Raymond, Lynn Seaton, Rob Pronk and the Metropole Orchestra.
Peter Weniger has been holding a professorship position at the Academy of Arts in Berlin since the winter semester of the academic year 1999/2000. |
Pepe Berns, double bass player, born in 1966, has a twenty-year long career behind him. Collaborations with prominent musicians from Germany and abroad, such as Woody Shaw, Benny Bailey, Charlie Bird, Art Farmer, Garry Barton, Jasper Van’t Hof or Chris Potter, brought him not only experience, but stylistic versatility as well.
Pepe Berns studied jazz double bass at the Academy of Arts in Köln. Even during his studies, he was an occasional member of well--known formations. Between 1992 and 1994 he lived in America, studying in Los Angeles with Charlie Haden (California Institute of Fine Arts) and in New York at the Manhattan School of Music with Harvey Schwartz and Maria Schneider. |
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