Sebastian Sternal
Biography Sebastian Sternal
Sebastian Sternal
ECHO jazz award 2013; Concours piano jazz Martial Solal 2012 (Paris); WDR Jazz prize 2007 (Cologne); Studies of jazz piano and composition in Cologne and Paris, with Hubert Nuss, Joachim Ullrich, Hervé Sellin and John Taylor; long-time member and teacher at the National Youth Jazz Orchestra 'BuJazzO' (under Peter Herbolzheimer).
Sebastian Sternal has worked with jazz greats like Dee Dee Bridgewater, David Binney and John Riley. Concerts tours has lead him to the USA, to Namibia, South Africa, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Poland, Bulgaria und Albania.
With his trio he released two albums, 'Eins' (2009) and 'Paris' (2010), and he plays in the quartet 'Die Verwandlung' of trumpet player Frederik Köster and in duo with saxophone players Claudius Valk and Will Vinson (New York). His project 'Sternal Symphonic Society' (Traumton Records 2012) brings together outstanding young musicians from both classical and jazz backgrounds in an 11-piece „symphonic combo“.
Sternal is teaching jazz theory and piano at the 'Hochschule für Musik Köln' and holds a professorship for jazz piano at the 'Hochschule für Musik Mainz'.
