Peter Ehwald

Peter  Ehwald
Photo: Dovile Sermokas

Lecturer of Jazz Saxophone, Jazz Clarinet and Improvisation

Hochschulzentrum am Horn

peter.ehwald(at)hfm-weimar.de

Saxophonist Peter Ehwald writes and perfoms music, along the tangency of Jazz and contemporary music. With his approach to rhythm rooted in the Jazz tradition, he uses unusual instrumentations and modern concepts of harmony to project the “here and now” in his energetic and yet elegiac improvisations.

Peter has worked with musicians like Tom Rainey, Tomasz Dąbrowski, Anna Webber, Diego Pinera, Laura Robles, Dan Weiss, Kathis Pechlof, Almut Kühne, Eivind Aarset, Saadet Türköz, Stefan Schultze, Rhani Krija, Kim Bo-Sung, Luise Volkmann, Dan Weiss, Moritz Baumgärtner, Rudi Mahall, Claudio Puntin, Gunter Hampel, Nils Wogram, John Schröder, Matthias Akeo Nowak, Jon Scott, Samuel Rohrer, Jonas Burgwinkel, Robert Landfermann. 

Since returning to Berlin in 2007 Peter became an active part of the Berlin Jazz Scene. From there he leads various own projects, including the two Double Bass quartet Double Trouble, the Septuor de Grand Matin, well as a trio with pianist Stefan Schultze and New York based drummer Tom Rainey. Peter has a deep interest in music cultures that differ from the western form and Jazz. He writes for and performs regulary with the berlin based Korean percussion Ensemble ~su and works with afro-peruvian percussionist Laura Robles. Peter has written music for over twenty radio drama productions for the German national radio. He is curating the Come Closer concert series in the Other Music Academy and the Come Closer Jazz festival in Weimar. 

Peters music is released on around thirty CDs, he is an intensely touring musician, who performs with many bands in countries like UK, France, Poland, Spain, Finland, USA, Peru and Costa Rica, South Korea, Mexico.

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