drum recording
Biography:
JAN SCHLEITE, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1972, originally played the piano. Because he was able to read music well, the music teacher at his school asked him to play the drums in the youth orchestra. In 1991, Jan Schlichte went to Frankfurt am Main to study, and later to the Trossingen Music Academy. There he was taught by Franz Lang and Rainer Seegers, timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic. Seegers was next Franz Schindlbeck also his teacher at the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Before Jan Schlichte became a member of the Berlin Philharmonic, he gained extensive orchestral experience, e.g. in the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and in the Rundfunkorchester des Südwestrundfunks. He is particularly committed to contemporary chamber music for piano and percussion. Jan Schlichte is also one of the founding members of the KlangArt Berlin ensemble and plays in the Neue Musik Berlin chamber ensemble and the Scharoun Ensemble. As a lecturer, he recently took part in a music education project in Venezuela.
Albums:
Chamber music with double bass:
