Peter HEDRICH

Peter Hedrich (born 3 April 1993 in Saarlouis) is a German Jazz musician (trombone).

Early in his childhood, Hedrich already came into contact with music through his parents and at the age of six, he started playing the trombone. Initially, he was trained in the classical trombone; only after finishing his Abitur (comparable to A levels) at Robert-Schuman-Gymnasium in 2011 did he commit himself to Jazz. From 2007 to 2016, he went through all the major junior orchestras, including the State’s Student Bigband, also known as “Jazztrain”, the Youth Jazz Orchestra of the Saar region and the Symphonic Youth Orchestra of the federal state Saarland and even the National Jazz Orchestra, also known as BuJazzO, which he was a member of from 2014 to 2016.

Following his school education, he initially studied law at the University of Saarland before starting to study Jazz and Modern Music at the University of Music Saar under the tutelage of Philipp Schug, Adi Becker and Simon Seidel (classical trombone). Aside from his studies, he broadened his musical education through private lessons by wellknown trombonists such as Jiggs Whigham, Andy Hunter, Ludwig Nuss, Ansgar Striepens and Hansjörg Fink. With his own band – the Peter Hedrich Quintet – he published his debut album New Hope in 2018, which is a reflection of Jiggs Whigham’s album Hope. This CD, which included collaborations with Jiggs as a guest musician, was nominated for the Quarterly Critic’s Choice of the German Record Critics’ Award.