DeutschAchim Kaufmann
piano
Achim Kaufmann (b. 1962 in Aachen) grew up in a musical family — his mother a piano teacher, his father a conductor. From 1984 he studied at the Cologne music conservatory under Frank Wunsch and Rainer Brüninghaus, followed by postgraduate study at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada with Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, and Richie Beirach, as well as private lessons with Steve Lacy in Paris. His long-standing projects include the piano trio grünen (with Christian Lillinger and Robert Landfermann), a duo with Amsterdam-based clarinetist Michael Moore, and the improvising trio Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode. He received the SWR Jazz Prize in 2001 and the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize in 2015. Since 2018 he has held a professorship for jazz piano and ensemble at the Franz Liszt School of Music Weimar and lives in Berlin.
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