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Artist description
Biography
After 5 years of classical training on the violoncello Sebastian Noelle took up the guitar at age 12. After 4 years of jazz guitar studies with Frank Kuruc he received a diploma from the Hochschule fuer Musik, Heidelberg-Mannheim, Germany. As a recipient of the prestigeous DAAD scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service) he graduated with Distinction in Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, where his teachers included John Abercrombie, Gene Bertoncini, George Russell, Jerry Bergonzi, Cecil McBee, Michael Cain and Ran Blake. He has performed extensively in Europe and the U.S. with jazz greats like Maria Schneider, Dave Santoro, Bobby Shew, Bob Moses, Lewis Nash, Peter O`Mara, Juergen Seefelder and Thomas Stabenow, including concerts at the North Sea Festival and the Montreux Jazz Festival. He has recorded with John Abercrombie, Gene Bertoncini, with his own jazz quartet, the Mannheim Jazz Orchestra and the critically acclaimed quintet „Changes“, with which he recorded the CD “Jazz changes”, released in 2000 on the German Jazz n Arts label.
Noelle also works as a composer, his work including pieces for small ensembles, big band, chamber orchestra and live electronics. His composition teachers were Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider and Juergen Friedrich.
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Music Style
Jazz |
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Instruments
guitar |
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Press Reviews
„Sebastian’s playing and writing are on a very high level“ (John Abercrombie)
„He is the complete guitarist both in terms of his arranging/composing abilities and his harmonic and linear improvising techniques combining both a sense of traditional and more contemporary concepts.“
(Gene Bertoncini)
„Noelle’s style ranges from acoustic-electric jazz guitar with warm single lines to Scofield regions“
(Jazzpodium, German national Jazz magazine)
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Location
New York, New York - USA |
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