Florian Kohlscheen & Nico Graz
Biography Florian Kohlscheen & Nico Graz
Florian Maximilian Kohlscheen
was born in 1994 in Landsberg am Lech and found his way to the guitar at the age of 10. He discovered jazz and improvised music early on and found like-minded musicians in Mark Pusker (saxophone), Gabriel Barreira (double bass) and Ruben Lipka (drums) with whom he could experiment and develop his own musical aesthetic. His debut album entitled "Intuition" was released in 2015 with this line-up.
From 2012 to 2014 he attended the vocational music school in Sulzbach-Rosenberg. He then studied classical guitar at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with Prof. Frank Bungarten, which he completed with distinction. After his studies, he made numerous trips to Granada / Andalusia. There he learned to play the flamenco guitar with Alberto Fernández Lopez. Florian Kohlscheen was a scholarship holder of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, the Nina Dieckmann Foundation and the "Music Needs Friends" Foundation of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media's support group.
Florian Kohlscheen gives concerts throughout Europe with different line-ups and genres. In 2021 he founded DUONOVA together with Nico Graz.
Nico Graz
was born in Kelheim in 1995 and began to learn accordion at the age of 5. Due to his outstanding performance, he was accepted into Victor Dukart's accordion class. He took part in numerous competitions with him as a child and won the German Accordion Music Prize, among others. Solo concerts in Italy, France and Germany followed. From 2011 to 2014 he completed his first musical training in accordion with Helmut Weinzierl at the vocational school for music in Plattling with an additional artistic year in concert accordion. This was followed by jazz studies at the University of Music in Würzburg with a major in saxophone under Prof. Hubert Winter, which he completed with distinction. After his studies, he learned to play the bandoneon in Buenos Aires with the Argentinian tango bandoneonist Hugo Satorre. In 2021 he founded DUONOVA together with Florian Kohlscheen; the focus here is on the bandoneon.
Nico Graz is the winner of the Biberach Jazz Prize. In addition to numerous studio productions as an accordionist and saxophonist, he performs throughout Europe as a soloist and in various projects. Through his training in the genres of classical and jazz, he is able to benefit from both worlds and let the music sound in a new guise.
