Markus Acher
German musician and co-founder of Alien Transistor.
Member of multiple musical projects including The Notwist and Hochzeitskapelle.Enji
Born and raised in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, Enji lived in a tiny yurt with a working-class family. “My parents worked every day, the whole day, for the city,” Enji says. “They love to sing, but they don’t have any passion for music. I was a bit different.” Ever supportive, her parents encouraged her to do whatever felt right for her, even if it meant eventually leaving Mongolia. “It was a great support from them.”
Paul Brändle
Paul Brändle, born in Kempten in 1992, studied jazz guitar with Peter O'Mara at the Musikhochschule München and enjoyed private lessons with greats such as Peter Bernstein, Jonathan Kreisberg and Gilad Hekselmann.
Martin Brugger
Producer and co-founder of Squama Recordings.
Member of Fazer.Matthias Lindermayr
Matthias Lindermayr, coming from a family of musicians (his father is a pianist and his mother teaches early music education), received classical piano lessons as a child; he learned to play the trumpet when he was twelve. He also played electric guitar in rock bands as a teenager. He studied jazz trumpet with Claus Reichstaller at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, then began composition studies with Gregor Hübner. Tiger Okoshi proved to be an important mentor, with whom he studied at Berklee College of Music in 2014/2015. He continued his studies in 2016 at the Jazz Institute Berlin with John Hollenbeck and Gerard Presencer.
Caspar Plautz
Dominik and Theo, have been running a small snack bar in the heart of Munich on the Viktualienmarkt since November 2017, where they try to present potatoes in a regional, seasonal, modern but also classic and, above all, delicious way and make them palatable to their customers. With the help of fantastic chef Kay and a fantastic team, they try to be as sustainable as possible in the urban centre of Munich, to remain creative and, above all, to always focus on the fun at work.