Arne Braun — guitar

Arne Braun, born 1995 in Jakobstad, Finland, is a Finnish musician with the electric guitar as his main instrument. He lives in Berlin where he is active on the scene in various bands and projects, playing both in Berlin and other cities around Germany. Besides Germany and Finland, where he regularly performs, he has also played in Iceland, France, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands. Notable festivals he has performed at include the Reykjavik Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, and MaerzMusik. He recently graduated from the Jazz Institute Berlin (UdK/Hanns Eisler), where during his studies he received lessons from Greg Cohen, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Kalle Kalima, Chris Dahlgren, Jim Black, John Hollenbeck, Marc Muellbauer, and more. In the last five years he has had the opportunity to play and perform with some of his favourite musicians, including Morgan Ågren, Jim Black, Pat Mastelotto, Greg Cohen, and many more.

Sofia Eftychidou — bass

Sofia Eftychidou (b. 21 September 1994) is a Greek bass player living in Cologne, Germany. She was born in Volos, Greece, where she took her first musical steps starting out with the piano at age 10. Later, at age 14, she picked up the electric bass, and a few years later she started playing the double bass. She first studied classical music under the guidance of Vassilis Papavassiliou in Athens and soon started playing in orchestras and ensembles. When she turned 18, she moved to Berlin, where she decided she wanted to play jazz and started taking lessons with bassist Marc Muellbauer. After three years, she moved to Cologne to study at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln under the guidance of Dieter Manderscheid and Jonas Burgwinkel. In addition to her trio "Bräumer/Klewer/Eftychidou," she plays in different projects which has led her to perform at numerous European venues.

Simon Bräumer — drums

Simon Bräumer was born in 1997 and raised in a musical family in the Odenwald region of Germany. At six years old, he started playing drums. Jazz played an important role for him from early on. He played his first jazz gigs at 12, shortly after which he began to participate in projects of the Hessen State Youth Jazz Orchestra, which led him to play tours in Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, and China, as well as being on stage with Grammy Award-winning singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. Simon Bräumer studies jazz at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Michael Küttner and Jonas Burgwinkel, and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with James Maddren and Tom Farmer. He is a sideman in different jazz combos and the drummer of Pascal Klewer's Big Band.

Pascal Klewer — trumpet

Pascal Klewer, born 1997 in Groß-Gerau, Germany, started picking up the trumpet at the age of 8. After a focus on classical music, he started concentrating on jazz at the age of 13. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Youth Jazz Orchestra of the State of Hessen, and since 2018 a member of the German National Youth Jazz Orchestra. He has played in numerous ensembles including the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, several youth jazz orchestras, the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, the Subway Jazz Orchestra, Shaikh9, and several other bands. He has toured all over Europe, China, Canada, and Bolivia and performed at renowned venues such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Köln, and Konzerthaus Köln, as well as playing with Grammy Award-winning musicians such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Schuur, and Randy Brecker. In 2015 he moved to Cologne to study at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz with Andy Haderer, Jürgen Friedrich, and Niels Klein. As a leader, his main projects are the German-Greek trio Bräumer/Klewer/Eftychidou (co-leader), as well as his own Big Band, the Pascal Klewer Bigband. With his own Big Band, he curates a concert series in Cologne, bringing together renowned artists such as Peter Brötzmann or Kit Downes with his own big band and his own compositions.