Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra

Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra

Genres: Modern Big Band, jazz, contemporary jazz

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About Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra

Tobias Hoffmann is a German, multi-awarded saxophonist, composer and arranger who is currently living in Vienna and Graz (Austria). Tobias Hoffmann was born in Göppingen (Germany) in 1988 and discovered his passion for music and the saxophone during his high school years. From 2008 until 2010 he studied at the University for Music, Drama and Media in Hanover and from 2010 at the Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen (The Netherlands), where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in June 2013. From 2013 until 2015 he studied Jazz Saxophone at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (Austria) and graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) with distinction. At the same time he studied Jazz Composition and Arrangement and graduated with distinction in 2018. Besides working on his own projects, Tobias Hoffmann is a sought-after sideman, composer and arranger for a wide variety of lineups and styles. Concert tours have taken him to several European countries. He has played with musicians such as Bob Mintzer, Joe Gallardo, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Paul Kuhn, John Clayton, and Benny Golson. In 2019, he released the album Retrospective with his Tobias Hoffmann Nonet. In 2022 the album Conspiracy and in 2024 the album Innuendo with his Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra followed. All productions were received very positively by the national and international press. Between 2005, when he started performing, and 2016, he won some national and international awards while playing in different formations. Among those were a second prize at the “Jugend jazzt” competition 2007 of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, a first award (cum laude) at the competition of the "International European Music Festival 2011" in Neerpelt (Belgium) and a first award at the “Euroregio Big Band Contest 2013“ in Enschede (The Netherlands). Since 2016, some of his compositions have been awarded prizes at various competitions worldwide. Among them are awards by the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers in Los Angeles (USA) or the Downbeat Magazine (USA). His Tobias Hoffmann Nonet was awarded the 1st prize in the “Band” category at the international online competition Made in New York Jazz Competition 2019 by a top-class jury including Lenny White, Randy Brecker, and Mike Stern. In the summer of 2021, Tobias Hoffmann was a guest of the NDR Big Band in Hamburg (Germany) as part of the “Podium for Arrangers” and was invited to rehearse and record his compositions there. In December 2021, he was one of five composers from all over Europe to be invited by the renowned Subway Jazz Orchestra in Cologne (Germany) as part of the project “European Composers - Sound of a Generation” to write a composition and to rehearse and perform it with the band. In January 2022, he was a guest of the Slovenian Radio Big Band Big Band RTV and could rehearse and record his compositions there. Since 2022, he has regularly worked with the Big Band Radio Romania in Bucharest (Romania) and the Bulgarian National Radio Big Band in Sofia (Bulgaria).

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