Matthias Schubert

Matthias Schubert is a German tenor saxophonist and oboist born in 1960 in Kassel, whose work spans free improvisation, electroacoustics, jazz and new music. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Hamburg from 1979 to 1983 and is regarded as a leading German saxophonist, known for powerful playing, richness of ideas, and structural inventiveness. His ensembles include a quartet with Simon Nabatov, Lindsey Horner, and Tom Rainey, plus a trio with Carl Ludwig Hübsch and Wolter Wierbos. He won awards at the Jazz Festival de Meervart (1980) and the International Jazz Federation contest (1982), and with Martin Speicher founded Polytonale, a Kassel series for improvised music.