Stephan Mattner
studied classical saxophone and instrumental pe- dagogy at the Musikhochschule Detmold/Dortmund and jazz saxo- phone at the Folkwanghochschule Essen with Prof. Hugo Read and Matthias Nadolny. Concerts have taken him throughout Europe and Australia with a wide variety of formations and musicians.

Sebastian Räther
was born in Hamburg and has been in the middle of the Cologne jazz scene for 20 years now, in which he plays very presently. He has played with (almost) all local colleagues of modern jazz and numerous musicians from Düsseldorf, Essen and the Ruhr area, such as Nils Wogram, Jonas Burgwinkel and Niels Klein, Simon Nabatov, Angelika Niescier and many others.

Ralf Gessler
After various workshops and lessons with Wolfgang Haffner, Gerry Hemingway, Hiram Mutschler, Adam Nussbaum, Tom Rainey, John Riley, Chad Wackerman and Dave Weckl, Ralf Gessler studied jazz drums at the Musikhochschule Köln with Michael Küttner and Keith Copeland. Graduated with top marks.