Philipp Schiepek, Henning Sieverts, Bastian Jütte
Biography Philipp Schiepek, Henning Sieverts, Bastian Jütte
Philipp Schiepek
The guitarist Philipp Schiepek has a vision: with his compositions and his playing he wants to develop a new, individual sound language. The musician and composer, who lives in Dinkelsbühl, is pursuing this goal with success. In recent years, the young artist has focused his work on performing his own compositions with his jazz projects and interpreting music for solo guitar.
With his ensembles he has performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival, the Leipzig Jazz Days, the Bach Festival Days in Köthen, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Prinzregententheater Munich, the Leverkusen Jazz Days and the Europe Sound Festival in Ankara, among others. Philipp Schiepek's concerts are broadcast on Deutschlandfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, or RBB, WDR and NDR. A 60-minute live concert recorded as part of the Berlin Jazz Festival was recently streamed on ARTE CONCERT.
Schiepek's debut album as bandleader and composer GOLEM DANCE with New York star saxophonist Seamus Blake was released in February 2019 on ENJA Records. In the same year he was awarded the Music Scholarship of the State Capital of Munich and received the "BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award" in 2020. Most recently, Schiepek won first prize in the Burghausen International Jazz Week competition with the Nils Kugelmann Trio.
On April 30, 2021, Schiepek and pianist Walter Lang released the duo album "Cathedral" on ACT Music. Schiepek's composition "BLAUE BÄUME" for two electric guitars was premiered in May 2022 together with Berlin guitarist Ronny Graupe. Further performances took place at the Schwere Reiter Munich, as part of the Konstanz Jazz Autumn and the Kollektivnights Berlin. At the Köthen Bach Festival
In 2022, Philipp Schiepek was a guest as a solo artist with the program “Saitenglück - Bach and inspired by Bach”. His new album “VERSACH ZU TRÄUMEN” (Wooden Waggon Records) will be released in February 2024 with Henning Sieverts on bass and Bastian Jütte on drums.
“Philipp Schiepek achieves great tension with comparatively few notes (…). It is (…) about the beauty of sound and the sensuality of sound.” (Matthias Wegner, Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
“He has found his own, always beautiful and exciting tone” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
