Klaus Kugel

drums, percussion

  • phone: + 49 2264 40 49 461
  • mobile: + 49 173 25 450 25
  • email: mail [at] klauskugel.com

Press

"Percussionist Klaus Kugel is a commanding force behind the drum set. He creates layers of tension drawn out from intuitive listening. There is a constant emotional swelling underlying every fill and cymbal crash."
- John Barron, JAZZREVIEW.COM, USA, April 2007

"These three discs... show Kugel as a drummer whose nearly boundless energy and imagination cannot be confined by neat categories."
- Ed Hazel, SIGNAL TO NOISE, USA, 2006

"Most ensembles can only wish for a percussionist with such high skill and perceptive musicianship as Klaus Kugel."
- Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany

Biography

Klaus Kugel, drums and percussion

Klaus Kugel studied at the School of Jazz in Munich. Since 1989 he has been playing intensively with the outstanding lithuanian soprano-saxophonist Petras Vysniauskas in many different international projects.

Klaus Kugel is one of the most inventive and adventurous German drummers. He attracted attention worldwide through projects with Petras Vysniauskas, Karl Berger, Tomasz Stanko, Charlie Mariano, Kent Carter, Michel Pilz, Theo Jörgensmann, Kenny Wheeler, Vyacheslav Ganelin, Bobo Stenson, Glen Moore, Steve Swell, Sabir Mateen, Robert Dick, Peter Evans, Bruce Eisenbeil, Perry Robinson, Arkady Shilkloper, Sirone, Burton Greene, Hilliard Greene, Vijay Iyer, Charles Gayle, John Lindberg, Herb Robertson, Louie Belogenis, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Bobby Few, Roy Campbell, Jemeel Moondoc a.o..

Over the past 20 years, he gave numerous concerts and appeared at festivals throughout Europe, the Baltic States, Canada, USA, Syria, Japan, Mexico, Russia, China, Ukraine and Israel.