Tamara Lukasheva & Matthias Schriefl
Biography Tamara Lukasheva & Matthias Schriefl
Tamara Lukasheva
is a singer and a composer at once. She goes through the world full of curiosity and with alert senses. Music is her mother tongue - and her means to process impressions, encounters and everyday life - and also to create something new, which in turn touches other people; across borders and musical categories.
Tamara Lukasheva was born in 1988 in Odessa, Ukraine. Between 2003 and 2007 she studied at the Odessa Conservatory, between 2010 and 2015 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, where she lives today.
In her solo project she interprets German poetry musically. For this she takes on the roles of a singer, a pianist and a composer all at once.
While she was studying in Cologne she founded a quartet with Sebastian Scobel (piano), Jakob Kühnemann (bass) and Dominik Mahning (drums). In 2019 Lucas Leidinger replaced Sebastian Scobel on piano.
She is also active in several collaborations: with Marie Theres Hartel (viola) and Susanne Paul (cello) she forms the string trio »Kusimanten«. As a singer she cooperates with Vadim Neselovskyi, Hans Lüdemann, Arkady Shilkloper, Bodek Jahnke, Sebastian Gramss, Jens Düppe, Dominik Mahnig and other important musicians of the European jazz scene.
In collaboration with Johannes Weber (guitar), Malte Viebahn (electric bass) and Antoine Duijkers (drums) she undertakes interstellar excursions to cosmic sound shores under the name »Lukoshko«.
In 2017, Tamara Lukasheva received the New German Jazz Award Mannheim. In 2016, she won the Bujazzo Composition Competition and came second with her quartet at the »Keep an Eye« Jazz Awards in Amsterdam. In 2018 she won the Horst-and-Gretl-Will-Scholarship and thus the Cologne Jazz Award as an »exceptionally variable and imaginative musician«.
Tamara Lukasheva has been awarded the 2021 WDR Jazzpreis (West German Broadcasting Jazz Award) in the category »composition«.
Matthias Schriefl
born 1981 grew up in Maria Rain, located at the edge of the Alps. From 2000 until 2005 he studied in Cologne and Amsterdam. Ever since 2006 he organizes the concert series Jazz-O-Rama at the Art-theater in Cologne. Followed by the tours with his Band Shreefpunk as „Rising Star”, of the European Concert Hall Organization from 2008 until 2010 in Europe’s great concert halls. After this tour, he decided to experience foremost with alpine music. In 2012, ACT released a series of „Young German Jazz“, with the repeatedly awarded album “Six, Alps & Jazz”. From then on, new CD-recordings with various bands in which he, as musician and composer wrote the compositions, fitting his fellow musicians like neoprene suits. Schriefl, is mostly living in Cologne and at times in the German Alpine region. His musical curiosity is leading him time and again to lengthy educational trips through India and various African and South-American countries where he studied their music traditions. In 2016, his versatile engagement was rewarded with the World-Music Award RUTH in Rudolstadt. In 2019 he won the New German Jazz Prize twice in Mannheim, the Band Prize with his band Shreefpunk plus Strings and the Soloist Prize and is thus still the last reigning winner of that competition. In 2023 he was won the German Jazz Prize as the best Brass Instrumentalist. The Jury wrote: "Matthias Schriefl stands out in the German jazz scene for his unconventional musical vision. With his unmistakable originality and his courageous approach in the interpretation of standards, but also in the realization of his own compositions influenced by alpine sounds, he shows himself to be an outstanding instrumentalist with an intoxicating spirit all his own. His improvisational talent and interplay with other musicians are outstanding, which is reflected not least in his recordings. On his current album „Geläut“ Schriefl convinces all along the line as a refreshing, innovative musician who is first and foremost a pleasure to listen to and at the same time makes you marvel at the new garments in which jazz can be wrapped again and again." He knows and loves big venues but values also the regular concert locations in smaller, rural areas where he presents his jazz to the local audiences.
