Moritz Wesp

© Moritz Wesp

Moritz Wesp plays trombone, virtual trombone and other instruments, that he designs, programs and builds. Besides FUCHSTHONE ORCHERSTRA he is working in several bands in and around Cologne (Germany), he improvises and composes music and does various interdisciplinary works

He is member of NOW MY LIFE IS SWEET LIKE CINNAMON

as well as part of other groups, like Mariá Portugal EROSÃO or Matthias Muche’s BONECRUSHER. Besides this, he regularly creates music for dance pieces.

Since 2018 he holds a masters degree in trombone. During his studies in trombone and composition at the Hochschule Luzern Musik and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, his teachers were Siegfried Koepf, Henning Berg, Frank Gratkowski, Nils Wogram, Dieter Manderscheid and Ed Partyka.

He played at well known festivals, like the Moers Festival, Jazzfest Berlin, Night of Surprise Köln, Klaeng Festival, Winterjazz Köln, Bezau Beatz, in the Philharmonie Köln and toured to countries such as Brazil, Morocco, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Russia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Greece and Cyprus.