Dietrich Koch plays soprano-, alto-, tenor- and baritonesax, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute and piccolo, is a teacher and workshop leader and is at home in many different musical working fields and styles.

Private studies with - among others - Herb Geller and Peter Weniger

2000-2004 studies at the jazz department of "Hanns Eisler" musical conservatory (Berlin)

since 1992 in Berlin working with a.o.: saxophone quartet "Licence To Blow" (Jazz), Lothar Stadtfeld & Friends (Soul & Pop), Berlin Big Band; Maxim-Gorki-Theater, Wintergarten-Varieté, Schlossparktheater, Theater am Kudamm, Times Square Productions, "Atze" Musiktheater, lead saxophonist of the Berlin Big Band since 2002.

Commisioned works as an arranger a.o. for Berlin Big Band, Climate Earth Orchestra, Giacomo Aula

His bigband compositions and arrangements are played a.o. by Berlin Big Band, Ausbildungsmusikkorps der Bundeswehr, Berliner Jugend Jazz Orchester, Landesjugendjazzorchester Schleswig-Holstein, Big Band "Wüste Welle" Tübingen, Big Band der Freien Universität Berlin, Uni Big Band Heidelberg, Great Danes Big Band (Copenhagen)

current projects:
DIETRICH KOCH BIG BAND: (Contemporary Jazz, Pop, Salsa, playing the leader`s original charts exclusively, CD "BERLIN COOKBOOK" 9/07, final concert at Bundesbigbandfestival 2010); Tasha Wenger and her Berlin Band (Latin Vocal Jazz), Two in Bossa (Bossa Nova), Barriga (Afro-Cuban Jazz)

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