“Vilnius JJazz ensemble” is an orchestra of 17 professional jazz musicians founded by trombonist, composer and arranger Jievar Jasinskis. The collective debuted in 2017 at the jazz festival “Broma Jazz” in Kėdainiai. There, the orchestra performed together with the vocal ensemble ‘The Backs’ and performed songs composed by Jievaras Jasinskis and Dorotėja Būdaitė, as well…
Jievaras Jasinskis is a trombone player, arranger and composer. He was born in 1989 in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2008 graduated “Balys Dvarionas” music school. Four years later graduated from “Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre” (LMTA), classical trombone class. In 2021 J. Jasinskis graduated master’s degree in composition (LMTA). Over the years Jievaras has arranged more…
Stefan Ambrosius (tuba) is the youngest member of the ensemble. At the age of 12, he first received tenor horn lessons from his father, later switching to the tuba. He began his music studies in 1999 at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken with Lennart Nord and switched to Stefan Heimann at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart in…
Andre Schoch has been a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2017 and holds a substitute professorship at Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts since 2021. From 2014 to 2017 he was principal trumpet at the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. Before that, engagements as principal trumpet took him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and…