Leonhard Huhn

Jazz saxophone
© Peter Tümmers
Building: am Residenzplatz
Office hours: by arrangement
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Saxophonist Leonhard Huhn (*1986, Berlin) is active and networked across genres in the German and European music scene. His flexible, experimental and melodic playing and performance combine jazz, contemporary music, electroacoustic sound performance, improvisation and krautrock. He leads his own trio DIE FICHTEN, regularly tours internationally with the band C.A.R., among others, and composes for many ensembles and theaters. Huhn developed a new electronic, modular controllable set-up for the saxophone and is part of the young music movement "Krautjazz". As a sought-after sideman and guest musician, he works in many ensembles such as Fo[u]r Alto, Stefan Schultze Large Ensemble, Colonel Petrov's Good Judgement, and others, and he leads the collectives Impakt Köln and Headless Society. In 2012 he graduated from the HfMT Cologne and was awarded the Horst-und-Gretl-Will Scholarship of the City of Cologne in 2015 and the SK Stiftung der Sparkasse Köln/Bonn Scholarship in 2018, among others, and toured several times with the Goethe Institute, including India, Pakistan, China and Russia. He has worked with Simon Nabatov, Jürgen Friedrich, Frank Gratkowski, Morton Subotnick, Max Loderbauer, David Helm, Philip Zoubek, Stefan Schultze, Niels Klein, Steffen Schorn, Hayden Chisholm, Robert Landfermann, Carl Ludwig Hübsch and many others.