About the concert
Mathis Nicolaus is a Dresden composer and pianist. He studied at the College of Music "Carl Maria von Weber".
Concert tours with his bands "Das besser Leben", "Richard Ebert Quartett", "Caldera" and "Das Telefonchat" took him to other European countries in addition to many guest venues in Germany.
Together with Sebastian Studnitzky, Nicolaus developed the musical design of the Stendaler Lichttage in 2015. In January 2017 he won with the band "Das besser Leben" for the interpretation of his pieces the chamber music award of the Society of Friends, Sponsors and Alumni of the HfM Dresden. In the same year, he also caused a stir with his big band project, with which he guested in local concert clubs. Mathis Nicolaus has appeared as a composer for the hfmdd jazz orchestra, the Mittelsächsische Philharmonie and the wind quintet HORN5.
Since 2018 he has been leading the big band of TU Dresden and is host of the “Dresden Jazz Session” at Club Blue Note Dresden. During the time of the Corona Lockdown, Nicolaus and his trio "The Late Knights" designed a large part of the musical accompaniment of the late-night show streamed every evening from the Blue Note Dresden with artists and creatives from all over Dresden.
Since 2016, Mathis Nicolaus has been working as a piano teacher on a fee commission at the Heinrich-Schütz-Konservatorium Dresden.
Joint projects were brought together with Thomas Zoller, Sebastian Studnitzky, Tom Götze, Christian von Richthofen, Günther Baby Sommer, Ansgar Striepens, Stefan Schultze, Sebastian Merk and Florian Lauer.