Stefan Merkl
arrangement, composition
Stefan Merkl studied school music with piano as his main subject at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, composition and arranging at the University of Rochester in New York with Bill Dobbins and Fred Sturm, among others. He has worked with Helge Sunde and Geir Lysne, the NDR Big Band and the Norwegian Wind Ensemble, among others. In addition, Stefan Merkl is the director of the Contemporary Big Band Project and organizer of the annual Jazz Encounter of Schools in Breisach i. Br.