Jens Düppe
Jens Düppe is constantly creating new projects and artistic encounters of the most diverse musical styles.
Düppe has been directing and curating the improvisational concert series Kommunikation 9 and BLIND DATE since 2011. He received composition commissions for the ACHT Bridge Festival in Cologne, for the European Church Music Festival in Schwäbisch Gmünd and for the Böll Foundation in Berlin. He was a lecturer for the national youth development award of the German Music Council “Jugend jazzt” and the German youth big band “Bundesjazzorchester”. Düppe also works with the German radio big bands from Frankfurt and Hamburg and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.
Jens Düppe is originally from Schwäbisch Gmünd in southern Germany. He received piano lessons early on, began learning drums at the age of ten and studied jazz at the music academies in Weimar, Amsterdam and New York City until 2002. Düppe was a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO) for a long time. In 2003 Albert Mangelsdorff brought him into the Franco-German Jazz Ensemble and then worked with Düppe in the Mangelsdorf-Dauner Quintet.
In 2019 he received the WDR Jazz Prize. In 2018 his album “Dancing Beauty” was nominated for the ECHO (best percussionist national).
A leading light for modern Jazz
Chris Spector – Midwest Record
