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Simon Oslender
12+ albums
pianojazzFusionorgan
about
Simon Oslender (born March 26, 1998 in Aachen) is a German Hammond organ player, keyboardist and pianist of popular music (jazz, funk, blues, gospel, pop). Oslender grew up in a musical home: his mother is a singer in an amateur choir, his father initially gave him drum lessons, but he switched to the B3 Hammond organ at the age of five and took lessons from Stefan Michalke. In addition to his school days at the Bischöfliches Pius-Gymnasium Aachen, he has been playing in the duo Twogether (now “Oslender&Cardynaals”) with the drummer Jérôme Cardynaals since 2010 and won the Prinses Christina Concours young talent competition in Amsterdam and the Heerlen Jazz Award with him in the same year. In 2014 he was awarded the JazzRockTV 'Miles Award'. He also won the WMC Music Award in 2012 and was nominated for the Hammond Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Bremen Jazz Prize in 2014. One of his role models is Oslender, among others, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Herbie Hancock, Larry Goldings, Joey DeFrancesco, George Duke and Frank Chastenier, who also became his teacher and mentor. Oslender performed with, among others, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Nils Landgren, Randy Brecker, Candy Dulfer and Philip Lassiter as well as with the Metropole Orkest and the WDR Big Band Cologne. In 2013 he accompanied Max Mutzke and Butterscotch and appeared at Hammond Night with Barbara Dennerlein in Ascona in 2016. In 2018, Oslender also performed with Wolfgang Haffner at Jazz Baltica, at the Jazz Festival of the Jazz Club Kar
