Stefan Schönegg

Our album „Enso: A Simplified Space“ in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk has been nominated for Deutscher Jazzpreis 2025 for Broadcast Production of the year!

Thanks everybody involved: Odilo Clausnitzer and Thomas Loewner from Deutschlandfunk; the recording team Stephan Schmidt, Hendrik Manook, Philipp Wissler, Jens Müller; Giuseppe Ielasi for mastering; Heide Prange for the photo. And of course my wonderful colleagues Marlies Debacker and Etienne Nillesen.

The award ceremony will take place June 13 in Cologne – fingers crossed!

I am incredibly happy to announce the new Enso-Album called On the withered tree a flower blooms! Available as download or CD via bandcamp. Also on all popular streaming services, eg on spotify.

Thanks to everybody involved, especially the wonderful Marlies Debacker on piano and Etienne Nillesen on snare drum. Thanks to Odilo Clausnitzer and Thomas Loewner from Deutschlandfunk and to recording engineers Stephan Schmidt, Hendrik Manook, Philipp Wissler and Jens Müller.

Video by Jeayoung Koh.

Enjoy!

A co-production with Deutschlandfunk.
Video supported by NICA artist development.

Two new videos are out! Two live recordings. Two different trios dealing in different ways with space and time.

The first one is from a concert in Kunststation Sankt Peter in Köln with Marlies and Etienne. The perfect place for Enso!

The second one is from a very intimate house concert last December in Köln. This is with Akiko Ahrendt on violin and Emily Wittbrodt on cello and is focussing much more on drones music.

Enjoy!

both videos are supported by NICA artist development ♥

Here you can hear more about my newest Enso project called „A Simplified Space“ with Marlies Debacker (piano) and Etienne Nillesen (snare drum) in this radio feature from Deutschlandfunk by Niklas Wandt.

I am incredibly happy to announce the new Enso-Album called A Simplified Space! Available as download or CD via bandcamp. Also on all popular streaming services, eg on spotify.

Thanks to everybody involved, especially the wonderful Marlies Debacker on piano and Etienne Nillesen on extended snare drum. Thanks also to Odilo Clausnitzer and Thomas Loewner from Deutschlandfunk, and recording producers and engineers Stephan Schmidt, Hendrik Manook, Philipp Wissler and Jens Müller. Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi.

Enjoy!

A co-production with Deutschlandfunk.
Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
Supported by Kunststiftung NRW.

Very happy to be part of this! Simon Nabatov Trio w/ Dominik Mahnig on drums and myself on double bass featuring Leo Huhn on saxophone / clarinet and Philip Zoubek on synthesizer. Out now digitally on cleanfeed records and physically October 27.

Here is a Spotify link. Enjoy!

I’m honoured to be part of this years selection of artists for the NICA artist development program by European Centre for Jazz and Contemporary Music at Stadtgarten, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Looking forward to dive deeper in some beloved projects of mine. Stay tuned for the new ENSO album coming out in December with my wonderful colleagues Marlies Debacker on piano (also NICA artist 2023) and Etienne Nillesen.

I’m happy to announce this new release on Tangible Music by Janning Trumann and some dear colleagues: Fundaments We Share. It’s a great collection of compositions and sketches by Janning for octet including church organ. Featuring Janning Trumann (trb, comp), Heidi Bayer (trp, flugel), Theresia Philipp, Charlotte Greve (asax, fl), Uli Kempendorff (tsax, clar), Fabian Willmann, Tini Thomsen (barisax, bcl), Dierk Peters (vib), Stefan Schönegg (b) and Sebastian Scobel (org). You can check it out here!

New ENSO music coming up with the amazing Marlies Debacker (piano) and Etienne Nillesen (extended snare drum). Brandnew band! We have been working a lot and it was a great journey culminating in recording at the amazingly beautiful sounding concert hall at Deutschlandfunk in Cologne!

Thanks to Thomas Loewer, the wonderful sound engineer Stephan Schmidt, also Hendrik Manook and Jens Müller from DLF. Special thanks also to Odilo Clausnitzer for making it happen. Really looking forward to the finished album!

Very happy to announce this new album from this long-time working trio Huhn / Schönegg / Mahnig (formerly: Die Fichten), which is finally released on impakt Records! Available as download and digifile CD via bandcamp.