bio

Jakob Krupp is a double bass player equally active in classical, jazz, and contemporary music. His international musical career has taken him to concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Berlin Philharmonie, and the Wiener Musikverein. He has made guest appearances at festivals such as the Darmstadter Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, the Berliner Festspiele, and the Festspiele Mecklenburg- Vorpommern.

Highlights of his career include concerts as a jazz soloist with the the Munchner Symphoniker, the Dortmunder Philharmoniker or the Staatsorchester Saarbrücken.

During his studies, he became a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. In 2019 he was a double bass player in the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz. He currently collaborates with the Ensemble Reflektor.

Jakob Krupp had already become well known in the field of jazz at a young age. He won several prizes at “jugend jazzt,” as well as the concert prize of the Jazztage Dresden. Since then, he has been invited to jazz clubs and festivals throughout Germany, and has shared the stage with artists such as Tony Lakatos, Michael Sagmeister, Libor Šima. He is also working as a arranger and composer, his suite for jazz ensemble and string quintet was premiered in 2025 at Klangraum Festival Köln.

A graduate of the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, Jakob Krupp is a highly regarded interpreter of contemporary music both as an ensemble musician and as a soloist, for example in projects with Ensemble Modern, Rimini Protokoll, Klangforum Heidelberg, and „Orchester im Treppenhaus“. He has collaborated with composers such as Brian Ferneyhough, Rebecca Saunders, and Heiner Goebbels, and has participated in numerous world premieres. In 2022 he was an artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.

As bass player of the renowned Frank Dupree Trio he is part of numerous projects in between classical and jazz music. Highlights of this collaboration have been CD and video productions with SWR, BR, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and BBC London. The trios debut-album „Blueprint“ has been presented as an album of the month by the New York Times, the trio performed together with ensembles like the SWR-Orchestra, the HR-Orchestra or the SWR-Bigband.

Jakob Krupp grew up in Trier and, after graduating from the Conservatoire de Ville de Luxembourg, studied classical double bass, contemporary music and classical singing at the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. With his low bass voice he is also active as a singer, performing as a soloist in cantatas, oratorios and other concerts.

Foto: Ralph Steckelbach
September 2025, subject to change