Dear friends of the Neuburg Summer Academy,
The course category Jazz/Pop will cover a range from Jazz to related music areas like Rock, Funk, Blues, Gospel, Latin, Singer-Songwriter etc. This variety will have an influence on individual instrumental coaching and ensemble work. This course will show you creative ways to approach all genres with joy of playing and expertise.
This course category is intended for all people whose passion for music is an important part of life: young musicians preparing for a professional career or studies, semi-professionals performing on stages for years with the wish to expand their horizon or amateurs not wanting to play alone at home anymore. These courses are not suitable for beginners, prior knowledge of the instrument is required.
In the morning, there will be solo and group lessons with the respective instrumental lecturer. In the afternoon, we will work together on a band program for a concert which will take place in the town theatre at the end of the week. There will be space for own compositions, collective improvisations and creative arrangements of already known materials.
Warm regards,
Sven Faller
Artistic director of Jazz/Pop
After studying jazz piano at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, he completed a Master of Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, which he graduated with distinction in 2014. Since then he has realized his musical visions in various artistic projects, in his own quartet (finalist at the New German Jazz Prize 2020), in a duo with his longtime companion Markus Harm or in further collaborations with Lutz Häfner, Doug Weiss, Adrian Mears u. Above all, he is a sought-after sideman, among others in the award-winning Rebecca Trescher Tentett. In recent years he has played concerts and toured in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Hungary and Kyrgyzstan.
Since 2020 he has been teaching jazz piano and jazz theory at the Nuremberg University of Music.
The singer studied at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and received a scholarship from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Workshops with Andy Bey, Sheila Jordan and Rhiannon followed, as well as performances at the Visiones Jazzclub and the Bryant Park Jazzfestival. She released six albums on Enja Records with the Lisa Wahlandt Band and her group Die drei Damen and reached No. 1 on the jazz charts in Singapore with "The Music of Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto". In the studio she has worked with numerous artists such as Claudio Roditi, Martin Kälberer, Quadro Nuevo, Roberto di Gioia and Till Brönner. In addition, her voice can be heard in countless film and television productions.
She was a lecturer at the Vocational School for Jazz and Popular Music in Regensburg and at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich.
The art of creating songs of all kinds, pop songs, Jazz standards etc. when singing is combined with piano.