Simon Below
The 23-years old Jazz-Pianist begins playing the piano early in his life. As a teenager he discovered Jazz. Since 2014 he is studying at the „Hochschule für Musik“ (HfMT Köln) in Cologne. Hubert Nuss & Prof. Hendrik Soll are his teachers. In 2016 he found his own quartet with following fellow students: Fabian Dudek (sax), Jan Philipp (dr) und Yannik Tiemann (b). The Band won several prices (e.g. the international Avignon Jazz-price, ("Tremplin Jazz D'Avignon")). In 2017 he won the „Steinway Förderpreis NRW“. The Debutalbum of the „Simon Below Quartett“ came out on 04th of May 2018. („Wailing Wind’s Story“ - Double Moon - JazzThing-Next Generation)