Peter Weiss

English Infos

Peter Weiss – Drums

Born in 1949, since more than 40 years working as a jazz musician.

Concerts and tours with musicians like:

Uli Beckerhoff, Gunnar Plümer, Hugo Read, Zbigeniew Namyslowski, Matthias Haus, Rainer Witzel, Werner Neumann, Gerd Dudek, Ed Kröger, Hendrik Soll, Benny Bailey, Norbert Gottschalk, Jarek Smietana, Peter Brötzmann, Norma Winstone, Bob Degen, Matthias Nadolny, Al Grey, Michael Küttner, Achim Kaufmann, Reiner Winterschladen, Christof Lauer, Frank Wunsch, Hal Singer, Andrew White, Tata Din Din, Glen Moore, Isla Eckinger, Manfred Schoof, Frederik Köster, Charlie Mariano, Randy Brecker, Terumasa Hino, Itaru Oki, James Moody, Piotr Wojtasik, Christopher Dell, Dieter Manderscheid, Matthias Schriefl, Pablo Held, Wolfgang Schmidtke, Hans Reichel, Conny Bauer, Rhani Krija, Arkadi Shil­klopper, Tobias Weindorf, Wolfgang Engstfeld et al.

Festivals:

Hamburg, Leverkusen, Gent, Moers, Burghausen, Nancy, Warschau, Nürnberg, Düsseldorf, Krakau, Brüssel, Raab, Wolfsburg, Ljubljana, Balve, Hildesheim, Marburg,

Kuwait, Poznan, St. Ingbert, Sevilla, more than 3000 concerts and club gigs.

Toured in countries like:

Netherlands, Belium, Luxembourg, Austria, Poland, Italy, France, Namibia, Kuwait, Japan, Russia, Jugoslawia, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, China, South Africa, Czecheslowakia, Brasil, England, Turkey, Portugal, Lithuania.

New Talented Price for musicians in Düsseldorf 1981, Member of the Music-Jury Düsseldorf 1990–1995, Jury “Jugend jazzt” NRW, Organisation concertseries “Jazz im Hofgarten Düsseldorf” since 1979, artistic director of the JazzRally Festival 1996–1999 and “Five Continents” Expo 2000. Leader and founder of the Jazzpool NRW since its foundation 1989.

Teaching:

Jazzworkshops in Biberach, Braunschweig, Darmstadt, Heilbronn, Ibbenbüren, Bielefeld, Leader of Düsseldorf Jazzclub “Alte Schmiede”, Radio- and TV-Productions for mostly every german station, u.a. feature in “aspekte”.