Jonathan Schierhorn

What particularly fascinates you about music?  I am particularly fascinated by the versatility of music.

Which musician has influenced you personally the most so far?  Vinnie Colaituta has influenced me the most so far.

Which band / soloist have you always wanted to be on stage with?  I would like to play with Immanuel Willkins and Joel Ross.

What is your life like outside of music?  I go to work on Mondays and Wednesdays: I teach drumming. I do sports (fitness, recently kayaking, before Corona karate).

 

At the age of two, I was already attracted to music with concise rhythms.
Then, when I could feel the church band live at the service in the kindergarten, I knew what got me the most excited about the music I had heard so far: it was the drum set.
When I was four years old, I went with my parents to a music school in my hometown of Duisburg and had my first own contact with this instrument there.
I played - until I was eight years old - mostly to rock music at this music school. But one day I wanted to explore more and I came to Stefan through acquaintances - a person who was himself studying Chinese economics at the time and was a drum student at the Dante Agostini School. He showed me not only playfully what it means to play the drums, but also what it takes to develop.
I met a guitarist when I was twelve and covered Jimi Hendrix with him. 
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I started a jazz band with a schoolmate, which gave me my first insight into jazz.
Since then I have delved deeper into it. In 2019, I then applied for the subject »Jazz Drumset« at the »Folkwang University of the Arts« and also started studying at the end of the same year.

 

 

MUSIC EDUCATION

2019 . Admission to the Folkwang University of the Arts
2018 . preparatory training at the Music and Art School Duisburg
2018 . Harmony lessons with Johannes Schwarz at the Music and Art School Duisburg
2018 . Piano lessons with Wim Naus at the Music and Art School Duisburg
2018 . Percussion lessons with Matthias Brödel at the Musik und Kunstschule
2014-2018 . Percussion lessons with Stefan Mühlenkamp at the Modern Music School
2008-2013 . Private lessons with Stefan Mühlenkamp
2005-2014 . Percussion lessons with Markus Krieger at the Niederrheinische Musik und Kunstschule Duisburg

WORK

Band coach in the Jewish community of Bochum
since 2021 . Drum teacher at the Kühnholz Music School
since 2020 . Drum teacher at the Beats and Music School Bochum
2018-2020 . Drum teacher at the Modern Music Schoo
2018-2020 . Drum teacher at the Modern Music School

BANDS & ORCHESTRAS

2022 . Music production at the "SAE Institute" recording studio in Bochum
2021 . Studio work with Philipp Mohr at Fattoria Musica
since 2021 . Musical production "Songs for Nobodies
Rio-Reiser concert series at the KOM'MA Theatre Duisburg Rheinhausen
Alternative Pop " This Machine! "
Jazz band "KNUD 
New music production "twelve bar blues
2020 . one-week studio work with the Nadolny Ensemble
2020 . Musical production " Grand Hotel Berlin
2019 . Musical production "Kasimir and Karoline
since 2019 . BigBand of the Lower Rhine Music and Art School
since 2018 . Philipp Mohr Trio
2018 . Studio work at the Berlin "SAE Institute
2017-2018 . Philipp Mohr Quintet
Mandolin Orchestra Krefeld
2017 . Start of visiting jam sessions
One-day studio recording at "Perspektive Medien Produktion" Bochum
2016/2017 . Mülheim Jazz Club youth band "Students of Jazz" .
since 2016 . Pop/ Rock Band
2016 . Band project at the Modern Music School Bochum
2015-2016 . Band project at the Modern Music School Duisburg
2015 . Guitar Ensemble of the Music and Art School Duisburg
Youth Orchestra of the Music and Art School Duisburg
2011-2014 . Prog. rock trio

COMPETITION & SPONSORSHIP AWARD

2017 . Sponsorship Award for the Philipp Mohr Quintett
2017 . 3rd place at the state competition "Jugend Jazzt" .

MASTERCLASSES & WORKSHOPS

2021 . one-week workshop with Antonio Sanchez
one-week workshop with Ambrose Akinmusire
Three-day workshop with Adam Nussbaum
2020 . one week workshop with John Patitucci
2019 . one lesson with Jonas Burgwinkel
one lesson with Thomas Alkier
one week workshop with Danielo Perez
2018 . Three-day workshop with saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa
2018 . Participation in the one-week workshop series "Jazz Acadamy" at the Landesmusikakademie NRW (lessons with Joost Patocka and band coaching with Ryan Carniaux)
2017 . Participation in the one-week workshop series "Jazz Acadamy" at the Landesmusikakademie NRW (lessons with Heinz Lichius and part of Pepe Bernz's six-piece band during the workshop)2016 . Three-week internship as a freelance musician with Stefan Mühlenkamp.
Masterclass with the Australian drummer Virgil Donati
Participation in the "Professional Programme" of the Modern Music School.

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