Felix Schlarmann

"FELIX SCHLARMANN GROUP": The Felix Schlarmann Group is a quartet of young jazz musicians from Amsterdam, who met each other during their studies at the Amsterdams Conservatory in early 2007. Every member of this international group puts his personal influences into the band and its music, which can be described as modern jazz with ‚energetic swing‘. The bands first program was the focus on Wayne Shorters music from 1964, the year of his first three blue note records. In the meantime there is own material played, written by the bandleader Felix Schlarmann and other members of the band. The Compositions combine different styles and influences of contemporary jazzmusic, getting their unique sound by the Felix Schlarmann Group. The recent program is based on own material, filled up with interpretations of the Shorter material and other selected compositions. The Felix Schlarmann Group worked in the Netherlands and other european countries and played several concerts, festivals and competitions.BIOGRAPHIE: Born in Lohne near Osnabrueck, Felix Schlarmann today lives in Amsterdam. There he studied Jazz-Drums at the ‘Conservatorium van Amsterdam’ with Marcel Serierse and Martijn Vink and graduated in 2007. He followed lessons and masterclasses by John Clayton, Richard Bona, John Scofield, Chris Potter, John Taylor, Bill Stewart, Bobby McFerrin, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Danny Gottlieb, Dennis Mackrel, Terry Line Carrington, Joey Baron, Jim Black a.o. Since 2007 Felix Schlarmann is a master student of Martijn Vink in Amsterdam. In the age of nine he started playing the drums and also classical percussion with focus on the marimbaphone. Since the mid 90s Felix Schlarmann played the drums in Jazz-, Rock-, and Bigbands, e.g. the youth-jazz-orchestra of the German state Lower Saxony, and was also active as a classical percussionist and played concerts all over germany. He won several prizes in the German competition ‘Jugend Musiziert’, a first prize on federal level 2001 as a soloist and in 2003 for ensemble. He also won different prices in the German jazzcompetition ‘Jugend Jazzt’. His composition ‘Good World?’ for Vibraphone and Set-up was published 2002 in the ‘Gretel Verlag’. Felix Schlarmann played on radio and television, tours, concerts and festivals in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Russia with different German and Dutch groups. He played with the Jazzkantine, Bert Joris, Edwin Rutten, Martien Oster, Pat Appleton, Pete York, Sam Lee Brown, Leni Stern, Wolfgang Roggenkamp, Gerhard Stengert a.o., and worked with Peter Bernstein, Justin DiCoccio, Antonio Farao, ‚Jazzorchestra of the Concertgebouw‘, Mark Murphy, Fay Classen, Erik van Lier, Bernhard Mergner and several other musicians.For more information contact: [email protected]