About the concert
The Linus Haagen Quintet consists of young, aspiring jazz musicians from Germany and Switzerland. With this band, the pianist Linus Haagen expresses his sound language in a new form, sometimes nostalgic to melancholy and sometimes energetic-ecstatic.
Linus Haagen, composer and pianist
Linus Haagen, born in 1994 in Hamburg, is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator. He studied jazz piano in Osnabrück in 2017-2019, among others with Pablo Held, Florian Weber and Thomas Rückert. Since 2019 he also studies jazz piano and music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig with Stephan König and Steffen Greisiger. He is active in various band projects as a bandleader and pianist and won the Pop-Impuls Preis Sachsen with the jazz band qubur for international cooperations.
With the Linus Haagen Quintet, he expresses his sound language in a new form, sometimes nostalgic to melancholic and sometimes energetic-ecstatic. https://linushaagen.de/
Mauro Reimann, tenor saxophone
Mauro Reimann lives, works and studies jazz saxophone in Zurich. During his studies he takes, among other things. Saxophone - Lessons with Christoph Grab, Lutz Häfner and Johannes Enders. In addition, there are various masterclasses and workshops with Chris Potter, Chris Cheek or Ohad Talmor. With his band muralim he was already part of the Montreux Jazz Festival Residency and the Suisse Diagonales Jazz. https://www.mauroreimann.ch/about
Max Diller, Trompete
Max Diller studied with Malte Burba and Sebastian Studnitzky at the College of Music "Carl Maria v". Weber" in Dresden and was a scholarship holder of the Musikfonds from 2021 to 2022. He performs with various projects and formations throughout Germany and internationally and has already given concerts in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Portugal and Jamaica.
As a founding member of Habitable Records, he has been working with a wide range of artists around the world since early 2020 to create a common, international platform aimed at exchange, equality and musical research. https://www.max-diller.com/
Raphael Schuster, drums
Raphael Schuster, born and raised in the Waldviertel, Austria studied jazz drums in Linz and Leipzig. He is on tour internationally in different formations (worlds, almost twins) and also performs with his solo program.
Leo onion, double bass
Leo Zwiebel, who grew up with Görlitz, is one of the most versatile double bass players in Leipzig. He moves effortlessly between jazz, pop music (munterfel) and electronic dance music (backmars) and always remains true to the double bass. Concert tours have taken him all over Germany and to the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland and Switzerland.