ABOUT ME
As a peace activist, it is important to me to mention that music is the true Esperanto. Music is the connecting language. Everyone can do it, because everyone has music within them, regardless of origin, skin color, religion, language, gender and age. It is the obvious means of entering into a peaceful and positive dialogue with foreign people and cultures.
Music as a live performance is the art form that combines so many things. Music moves in the field of tension between composition and improvisation, between the well-known and those created from impulse. It depends on the composition of the musicians, their mood of the day, the location and the audience and thus gives an insight into the psychological state of a group of people who share and create a moment. It happens in real time: As soon as it’s there, it’s gone forever. It only happens in the here and now, like life anyway. That’s what makes it so exciting for me to devote myself to this art form.
Furthermore, music is a look into the past, because the musician’s entire past, both as a person with history and as a craft acquired through years of persistent practice, wants to be brought to life in a moment of the present based on an emotional impulse. Music is a sounding melange of biographies, places and emotions brought into present.
But the most important thing: It’s just fun to play music with different people!
Tour in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan with Ashraf Sharif Khan and friends organized and produced by Rudaw TV and Zahawy Music house
Two scholarships as part of “Neustart Kultur” program
Several tours with Tomasz Kowalczyk Trio, concerts featuring Markus Stockhausen, live at NDR
Pakistan tour with Ashraf Sharif Khan, organized by Goethe-Institut, the Pakistani Embassy and APMC, several concerts and workshops
Endorser at the cymbal company „Murat Diril Cymbals“
Musical director and drummer at the theatre piece „Auf dem Mond, weil es so schmerzhaft wäre wie auf der Erde“ at Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany
Drummer and multi-instrumentalist at Theater Bremen: Leonard Cohen recitals “I’m Your Man” and “You Want it Darker”
Musical director, composer, arranger and drummer of „Lange Nacht der Weltreligionen“ at Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany
Studies of jazz drums at HfMT Hamburg, Germany
Yehudi Menuhin e.V. scholarship holder in the “Live Music Now” program
1st prize winner at European Jazz Contest with the band „Jazzpocalypse“ – Rome, Italy
Initial founding of my band YOUPHORIC as a bandleader
Study trip to Bangalore, India – five weeks of intense lessons with T.A.S. Mani at Karnattakan College of Percussion
One year studies of jazz drums at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Southern Denmark
Musical direction and solo performance in the music theater project “Horror Vacui”, performances in “Zeisehallen” and “Deutsches Schauspielhaus”, Hamburg
Drummer at the festival for contemporary music „Biennale München“, performances at “Prinzregententheater”, Munich
Tour in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan with Ashraf Sharif Khan and friends organized and produced by Rudaw TV and Zahawy Music house
Two scholarships as part of “Neustart Kultur” program
Several tours with Tomasz Kowalczyk Trio, concerts featuring Markus Stockhausen, live at NDR
Pakistan tour with Ashraf Sharif Khan, organized by Goethe-Institut, the Pakistani Embassy and APMC, several concerts and workshops
Endorser at the cymbal company „Murat Diril Cymbals“
Musical director and drummer at the theatre piece „Auf dem Mond, weil es so schmerzhaft wäre wie auf der Erde“ at Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany
Drummer and multi-instrumentalist at Theater Bremen: Leonard Cohen recitals “I’m Your Man” and “You Want it Darker”
Musical director, composer, arranger and drummer of „Lange Nacht der Weltreligionen“ at Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany
Studies of jazz drums at HfMT Hamburg, Germany
Yehudi Menuhin e.V. scholarship holder in the “Live Music Now” program
1st prize winner at European Jazz Contest with the band „Jazzpocalypse“ – Rome, Italy
Initial founding of my band YOUPHORIC as a bandleader & Study trip to Bangalore, India – five weeks of intense lessons with T.A.S. Mani at Karnattakan College of Percussion
One year studies of jazz drums at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Southern Denmark
Musical direction and solo performance in the music theater project “Horror Vacui”, performances in “Zeisehallen” and “Deutsches Schauspielhaus”, Hamburg
Drummer at the festival for contemporary music „Biennale München“, performances at “Prinzregententheater”, Munich
IMPRESSED
„I am especially impressed by Pangritz whose play is very individual and additionally he composed or co-composed three pieces out of four on this album.“
TOP LEVEL
„Changing Perceptions“ is another terrific modern jazz album from Germany, which once again shows that local musicians have long been on the TOP level of the international elite.“
Jazz Music Newsletter about Tomasz Kowalczyk Trio’s album „Changing Perceptions“
TOP NOTCH
„The performances are all top notch“
MIRACULOUSLY
„All three musicians are excellent instrumentalists, each presenting very different personality and mannerisms, which work together quite miraculously.„
REFERENCES
IMPRESSED
„I am especially impressed by Pangritz whose play is very individual and additionally he composed or co-composed three pieces out of four on this album.“
TOP LEVEL
„Changing Perceptions“ is another terrific modern jazz album from Germany, which once again shows that local musicians have long been on the TOP level of the international elite.“
Jazz Music Newsletter about Tomasz Kowalczyk Trio’s album „Changing Perceptions“
TOP NOTCH
„The performances are all top notch“
MIRACULOUSLY
„All three musicians are excellent instrumentalists, each presenting very different personality and mannerisms, which work together quite miraculously.„
