Prof. German Klaiber

Vita

German Klaiber, born in 1967, studied at the Swiss Jazz School Bern, the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and, with a scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Art of Baden Württemberg, at the Western Illinois University (USA). From 1997 to 2002 he was a student of John Clayton. 

He is a member of several bands including the Lilly Thornton Quartet, Junker-Klaiber, Zipflo Reinhardt Band, Volles Quartett, Sorry it's Jazz, Patrick Tompert Trio, Manfred Junker Quartet, Andrea Mayer Quartet, and works as a freelance musician. Since 2004 German Klaiber is a lecturer at the Jazz&Rockschule Freiburg, since 2007 lecturer at the Musikhochschule Trossingen. 

He has played in concerts and recordings: Herb Ellis, Franco Ambrosetti, Peter Herbolzheimer, Jiggs Whigham, Ack Van Rooyen, Ernie Watts, Jeff Clayton, John Ruocco, Giani Basso, Bobby Shew, Ron Williams, Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Wolfgang Haffner.