Stephan Mattner

tenor-soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute, composition, arrangement

Biography

Stephan Mattner – tenor and soprano saxophone, composition, arrangement

As a saxophonist, composer and arranger, he moves with ease between tradition and modernity.
He studied classical saxophone and instrumental pedagogy at the Detmold University of Music (Dortmund campus), as well as jazz saxophone at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen under Prof. Hugo Read and Matthias Nadolny. His training was supplemented by courses at events including the ‘Darmstadt Days for New Music’.
Whilst studying, he was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Youth Jazz Orchestra and worked as a teaching assistant at the Dortmund University of Music.
His artistic career has taken him, with a wide variety of ensembles, to almost all the major German jazz venues and festivals, as well as to venues across Europe, Australia and India. International collaborations and concert tours have been organised in partnership with the Goethe-Instituts in France, Italy, Spain and India.

At the Montreux International Jazz Festival, he reached the semi-finals of the prestigious International Saxophone Competition.
Radio and television programmes for WDR, MDR, BR and Deutschlandfunk showcase the breadth of his musical work. Alongside his artistic work, Stephan Mattner regularly serves as a judge, including at the national ‘Jugend jazzt’ competition and the North Rhine-Westphalia State Orchestra Competition.

He also teaches saxophone as a lecturer at the University of Siegen.
As a much sought-after guest musician in large-scale jazz and contemporary ensembles, Stephan Mattner has been involved in a wide variety of projects – including the WDR Big Band, the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, the Christina Fuchs Big Band, the Thoneline Orchestra and other modern jazz ensembles.

Media

Projects

CD´s

2024    

FRANK WUNSCH ENSEMBLE
“Tristans Traum”

(Laika Records)

2023     

YABBALAGA
„Creatures“     

Mattner-Räther-Gessler

2016     

BEAM

(Mons-Records)

2011     

Caroline Thon „Thoneline Orchestra“ Deutschlandfunk

(A-Jazz, distributed by NRW Jazz)

2003     

„Mattnerhorn“ Stephan Mattner Quartett     

Mattner-Kümper-Werni-Peters
(NRW Vertrieb)

Press

“… is one of the outstanding soloists on the German jazz scene …”
Roland Spiegel: Bayerischer Rundfunk, in the programme broadcast on 27 June 2014

‘With Stephan Mattner, we finally have a musician who has carved out his own path, far removed from the mainstream and current trends. He’s well worth a listen.’
Union Deutscher Jazzmusiker 29.8.2006

‘… one of Germany’s greatest talents …’
Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung 1.12.2001

Contact

Stephan Mattner
+49 174 1020089
info@stephan-mattner.de