Frederik Villmow Quartet
Biography Frederik Villmow Quartet
Frederik Villmow
is a German jazz-drummer and composer, living in Trondheim/Norway.
He was born in 1993 and grew up in Pulheim -close to Cologne. At an early age, he started playing the drums.
He studied jazz-drums at Codarts University of Arts, Rotterdam (2013-2015) and Jazzlinja NTNU, Trondheim (2015-now). Currently he's attending the master-program at Jazzlinja NTNU.
Between 2011-2015, Frederik was part of the Youth Jazz Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was awarded by the WDR Jazz Award (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) in the category up-and-coming.
In 2014 he took part in the Metropole Orkest Academy in Hilversum, conducted by Jules Buckley and Vince Mendoza. In the same year, he recorded the music of Gabriel Pérez with The Soundtrip Orchestra featuring
Chris Potter on saxophone.
In 2015 Frederik moved to Trondheim/Norway, to attend at the highly acknowledged jazz-department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU.
