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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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.

Here is a review by Martin Hufner in Neue Musikzeitunghttps://hoerbar.nmz.de/2022/12/enso-strings-percussion/ Here Ken Waxman writes on jazzword.com about Enso and Metaculture https://www.jazzword.com/reviews/stefan-schonegg/ The focus of Stefan Schönegg’s formation Enso is sound. And there is nothing to shake about that. Already the four previous releases of the quartet – which optionally even grows to an octet – […]

I am incredibly happy to announce the new Enso-Album called Strings & Percussion! Available as download or vinyl via bandcamp. Thanks to everybody involved, especially the wonderful Kari Rønnekleiv, Judith Hamann, Toma Gouband and Etienne Nillesen. Also recording engineer Patrick Leuchter, mastering engineer Alex Kloss and video artist Leonhard Huhn. Enjoy! Funded by the Cultural […]

Very happy to announce this new release by my friend Leif Berger: Hinweis auf die Sonne. It is a beautiful self-release on vinyl with the wonderful Rebekka Ziegler on vocals, Yannis Anft on synthesizer, Leif Berger on drums and myself on electric bass.

Very happy to announce this new release on shoebill music:Schmid’s Huhn – Layers (live) It is our third album, recorded at a five-days-residency at Club Subway Cologne in 2020. With music by Stefan Karl Schmid (tenor sax, clarinet, effects) and Leonhard Huhn (alto sax, clarinet). With Fabian Arends on drums. Available via shoebill music, Stefan […]