Waltz for Andrea

triosence - first enchantment

Bernhard Schüler (p),
Stephan Emig (dr),
Michael Kehraus (b)

The members are Bernhard Schüler (piano), Matthias Nowak (bass) and Stephan Emig (drums). It has become one of the most successful jazz bands in Germany[1] and has won the national jazz competition “Jugend jazzt”, the “1st Ostsee Jazz Festival Prize”, and a CD recording contract with the German national radio network, “Deutschlandfunk”. Their first CD, “First Enchantment” was nominated for the "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik". The second CD "Away For While" stayed in the German International Jazz Charts for over 6 Month. It is very successful in Japan, too. The first CD was sold out after a few weeks. [2] tour through Japan is projected.

Bernhard Schüler was born on September 19, 1979 in Kassel (Germany) and began his musical formation in the age of 7 years while he learned playing the piano. Yet as a teenager he began to compose his own music. His first music group he has founded in 1996 and was saxophonist, bandleader and componist in one person. Yet before he had taken part in in the competition "Jugend jazzt" with Triosence, he had won this twice in 1996 and 1999 by his own. In 1999 he had won an advancement for soloists for the art he played the piano and had won in 2000 the competition as soloist. From 1999 to 2004 he studied music in Colonia on the "Musikhochschule Köln".

Stephan Emig was born on January 7, 1976 in Kassel (Germany). With 13 years he had made his first steps with the drums. He realized his musical formation at the Modern Music School in Gießen (Germany) and walked to Los Angeles (California) to the Music Academy. Since 1998 he has been working as a professional drummer and producer.

Matthias Akeo Nowak was born in 1976 in Berlin (Germany. He studied music for orchestras and jazz at the University for Music and Art in Mannheim and Detmold. He was member of the "Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie" (German Philharmonic Orchestra) and the Jungen Österreichischen Philharmonie (Austrian Philharmonic Orchestra). He worked with John Ruocco, Jürgen Friedrich, Dejan Terzic, Rudi Mahall,Christopher Dell und Oliver Leicht and has made a lot of journeys in Germany, France, Albania, USA and Italy.