CHRISTIAN KAPPE

CD production Cru Sauvage Volume 2 with Kai Brueckner & Burkhard Jasper
CD production Christian Kappe – Sebastian Altekamp duo
Concert tour with Delia Fischer from Rio de Janiero, Brazil to Vienna, Rome & Madrid
Concerts with Leerik / Hendrik Lensing & Alexander Rink, Cru Sauvage, UniJAZZity, Martin Furmann, Jan Rohlfing & band
Spring & autumn tour with Cartouche / Philipp van Endert & Andre Nendza

Concert trip to Macedonia & Belgium with Eda Zari & band including Rhani Krija, Gert Kapo & Visar Kuci
CD production Cartouche / Philipp van Endert & Andre Nendza
CD Release „A Word Before You Go” / Stephanie K, Sebastian Altekamp, Markus Paßlick, Ingo Senst & Christian Schoenfeldt
Concerts with the groups of Christian Finger, Marc Brenken, Nikola Materne, Heiner Kleinjohann, Björn Thoroddson (Island), Bassmati, Wolfgang & Juergen Bleibel Quintet, Electric Blue with Alexander Rink & Hendrik Lensing

Concerts mit Trilok Gurtu & Spellbound in Portugal (tour) und an der Popakademie Mannheim
Concerts with Bassmati, Cru Savage, Tim Sund & TME, Sebastian Altekamp, Eda Zari & band with Roland Peil, Gert Kapo & Dietmar Fuhr
The WDR Jazz price goes to UniJAZZity, the Youth Jazz Orchestra of Westphalia, led by Christian Kappe

Touring with Trilok Gurtu Band „Spellbound“ (Trilok Gurtu -   Percussion, Christian Kappe - trumpet, Jonathan Cuniado – bass, Jesse Milliner / Sabri Tulug Tirpan – piano) travelling to Brazil, Rumania, France and Germany
CD – production Christian Kappe & Cru Sauvage with Burkhard Jasper and Kai Brückner
CD Release „More Short Stories“ by the Brenken – Kappe Quartet with Marc Brenken, Alex Morsey and Marcus Rieck
1. price for the Youth Jazz Orchestra UniJAZZity at the competition of „Jugend jazzt“ NRW
Concerts with various ensembles as the Barbara Dennerlein Band, the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Tim Sund & TME (DVD Live Mitschnitt) and others
Stay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for recreation and music in winter 2014/15

CD – release "Tim Sund & The Mightiest Ever" with Valentin Gregor, Lars Guehlke & Kai Schoenburg
Christian Kappe & Cru Sauvage meets Chris Higginbottom & Sam Lasserson (London, GB)
TV production (WDR) "Zimmer frei" with Goetz Alsmann & Sabine Westermann playing with "Zimmer frei – Kurorchester"
The Youth Jazz Orchestra UniJAZZity Münsterland wins the 1st price at the competition "Jugend jazzt NRW" 2012
The Christian Kappe Jazz-ensemble wins the special award at the competition "Vocal plus" at the College of Music Münster

"Jazz plays Europe" with Kristina Fuchs "Im Roeseligarte" & Christian Kappe & Marc Brenken Quartett with Jeroen Van Vliet, Mete Erker, Alex Morsey & Marcus Rieck playing concerts at Bimhuis, Amsterdam a.o.
formation of "Christian Kappe & Cru Sauvage" with Burkhard Jasper & Kai Brueckner
CD – productionen with Klaus Fey & Streetscenes, Stephanie K., Felix Elsner a.o.
WDR TV – productions: "Vuvuzela / FiFA WM 2010" a.o. 

Playing on Jazz festivals with Jasper van't Hof & Hotlips (with Jasper van't Hof, Tony Lakatos, Annie Whitehead, Eric van der Westen & Moritz Mueller) in Madrid, Luxemburg, Wuerzburg (Live - broadcast by HR & BR), Essen, Rottweil and Worms
CD – production „Floating", Griese – Kappe Quintet with Johannes Kersthold, Dirk Strakhof & Rainer Winch at Radio Berlin – Brandenburg at „Kleiner Sendesaal", Berlin
CD – Live – recording „Poetry & Jazz: August Stramm" with Andreas Ramstein & Marc Brenken and CD – production „Cosmic Waltz" with Hans-Martin Limberg
duo- und trio – concerts with Barbara Dennerlein and various projects with Tim Sund & Michael Kersting, Julia Huelsmann, Gregor Hilden, Burkhard Jasper & Nico Schaeuble, Tal Balshai, Heiner Kleinjohann & Maria de Fatima, Johannes Gunkel & John Schroeder
teaching at workshops in Berlin, Gladbeck, Ibbenbueren, Cloppenburg, Hannover, Beckum und Dallas, Texas 

CD release „Eight Short Stories" / Marc Brenken – Christian Kappe Quartet with Alex Morsey and Marcus Rieck
tour with Jasper van't Hof & Hot Lips and festival performances, with Bob Malach, Tony Lakatos, Bo Stief, Annie Withehead a.o.
performance during the cultural programme of the Fifa worldcup 2006 with Michael Gees
DVD Live – recording with Gregor Hildens Band
Various CD – releases. A.o. „Poetry & Jazz" with Peter Rühmkorf and "Hommage an Reinhard Döhl" 

Autumn tour with Dutch pianist Jasper van't Hofs Pili PiliKonzerthaus Dortmund with Barbara Dennnerlein
Kappe – Brenken Duo / Klaus Fey & STREETSCENES plays several festivals as Hürth, Delmenhorst, Ingolstadt, Bremen, Marl, Coesfeld, Essen and Münster
CD release of Gregor Hilden's "Blue Hour"
The new Hans Martin Limberg – Christian Kappe Duo presents Jazz music at the pipe organ
Invitation to teach at the summer workshop in Marlborough, GB 

invitation to teach at International Jazzcamps in Los Angeles and Dallas, USA including faculty as Tim Ishi, Lou Carfa (Maynard Ferguson), Cedar Walton and Kent Ellingson
festival appearances as Jazzfestival Potsdam with Christof Griese, Jazz Rally Duesseldorf with Barbara Dennerlein, Breminale with Klaus Fey and Florian Poser
Allan Vizutti as a visiting artist at the conservatory Leipzig
CD recording of CLOCKWORKGOD 

CD – release of Florian Zenker – Christian Kappe 4tet „The Merry-Go-Round After Dark"
International Jazz Festival Muenster, Germany, recorded and broadcasted by WDR and DLF
Jazz – scholarship by the city of Frankfurt to the European Jazz Project
invitation to teach at International Jazzcamps in Los Angeles and Dallas, USA including faculty as Tom Scott and Garry Pratt 

Christian has been teaching in the Jazz department of the Conservatory „Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig including faculty as pianist Richie Beirach. Christian has been teaching trumpet, ensemble, music history and Big Band sections

chosen best soloist by the audience of the International Jazz competition in Getxo / Bilbao, Spain while winning the first place with his 4tet in the band competition
appearance at the International Jazzfestival Muenster
invitation by the Comunity College Vancouver to play in an multinational Big Band in Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, Canada. The band was led by Hugh Fraser and Graham Collier (Royal Academy, London)
CD release of the European Jazz Project featuring Silvia Droste and Martijn Sohier
Tour to Moskow and Rjasan, Rissia with a classical brass quintet 

winner of the International Dutch Jazz competition in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
winner of the German Jazz competition, winning a CD production with the MDR, Leipzig, featuring music by the 4tet and Lutz Haeffner
International North Sea Jazz Festival, Den Haag, The Netherlands
masterclass with Kenny Wheeler at the Banff Centre, Canada
tour through South Africa with the German jazz orchestra led by Peter Herbolzheimer
CD release "Focus On Vocals", German Jazz Orchestra, winning the „Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik"
tour to St. Petersburg and Moskow, Russia with the Big Band Rotterdam 

winning a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA
study at the Berklee College Of Music, Boston, USA, classes with Ed Tomassi and Greg Hopkins
concerts with canadian vibraphonist Matthias Lupri in the US

study at the Royal Conservatory The Hague and the Conservatory Rotterdam, The Netherlands (teachers: Ack van Rooijen, Eric Vloeimans, Jarmo Hoogendijk and At van Zon (Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest) 

winner of the Youth Jazz competion, NRW in the late 80ies lessons with Klaus Heimann, Uli Beckerhoff and Werner Jede in the early 80ies trumpet lessons with Fritz „Fitti“ Dermann and getting into contact with Jazz thanks to Big Band leader and teacher Karl Heinz Buhne