Availability of docents depends on number of workshop participants (5 participants per docent are needed), but all instruments will be taught by the docents which are available per workshop even if less than 5 participants have booked one instrument/vocal class.
Karoline Weidt (vocals, lead instruments)
Karoline Weidt studied jazz vocals and pedagogy at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden with, among others, Prof. Céline Rudolph, Prof. Esther Kaiser, and pianist Matthias Bätzel. As a singer with the German National Youth Jazz Orchestra (2018-2020), she toured the USA, Canada, and Israel. Her “Karoline Weidt Quartet,” founded in 2020, won the hfmdd Ensemble Competition (2021), the #jazzlab Prize at the Festival da Jazz in St. Moritz (Switzerland, 2021), and was a finalist for the Young Munich Jazz Prize (2021), despite its relatively short existence. They released their debut CD, “The Dream,” in February 2021. Karoline Weidt is also a singer with the contemporary music ensemble “Victor Gelling’s TPCM” and co-founder of aMUSE (singing poetry) with Kilian Sladek.
Nicola Lombardi (piano, saxophone)
Nicole Lombardi is an experienced piano player in classic music as well as in jazz music. He studied piano in Conservatorio G.B. Martini Bologna and is now an active musician playing in many combos and he is closely connected with jazz activities at Conservatorio Pollini di Padova. We hope to have many applications for piano in order to he able to hire Nicola as well on our next workshop. (and see: Nicola@Instagram)
Antonio Paone Lumastro (guitar)
Antonio Paone Lumastro is a professional guitarist and music educator based in Verona, Italy. He holds a First Level Degree in Jazz Guitar from the Conservatory of Mantua and a Second Level Degree in Pop Rock Guitar from the Conservatory of Milan. Antonio regularly performs as a live and studio guitarist for original projects, cover bands, and tribute bands, collaborating with organizations such as Art WhyNot, Jam For Live, Live for Music, Magix Promotion, and The Saifam Group. Antonio is permanent staff member of our workshop.
As a music educator, Antonio teaches guitar and various music-related subjects at several music academies. His lessons combine improvisation, rhythm and harmony training, reharmonization techniques, and practical musical skills tailored to students of all levels and ages. For more details about Antonio, please visit: Hompage:AntonioPaoneLumastro SocialMedia:AntonioPaoneLumastro
Bernd J. Kröger (double bass, e-bass, drums, Member of Jazz Education Network JEN)
Bernd is an experienced double bass player, who did a reasonable music career in the early 80s. In these times he played together with great Jazz musicians like Silvia Droste, Cliff Wren, Romy Cameron, Ralf Peyer, Sean Moyses, … In most times he worked as a freelancer in order to be able to study physics, phonetics, linguistics and musicology in parallel. He is currently working at RWTH Aachen University (see: www.speechtrainer.eu). Bernd is the organiser and permanent staff member of the Montegrotto JazzWorkshop.
