Matthias Muche works as a freelance trombonist in jazz and contemporary music, as an composer and improviser, and as a curator and artistic director of festivals and international artist encounters. He received the Jazz Prize 2021 of the WDR in the category Improvisation... "A man in his laboratory where the trombone, his instrument, stands. Muche is a researcher, a proven virtuoso of improvisation, who works tenaciously to unlock new doors and to demonstrate his instrumental ability from a variety of perspectives. A trombonist who, in ever new encounters with professional colleagues, directs the focus of his research to the manifold potentials of this instrument, which possibly comes closer to the human voice than any other. Matthias Muche knows how to set the stage for the trombone. And thus also for himself, and the mutability and innovation of his musical intuition… he soon became in demand as an improviser who, with virtuoso skill and an enormously physical stage presence, breaks through the boundaries of conventional jazz performance and departs from well-trodden paths to continually seek new adventures in sound. A milestone in this quest was the founding of Zeitkunst, a platform for the "promotion and presentation of audiovisual art" where the division between classical and electronic instruments is erased." http://www.matthiasmuche.com https://www.zeitkunst.eu