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| Nicolas Simion was born 1959 in Dumbravita, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. He showed his musical talent very early and was sent to the Brasov Music School at the age of ten. After that he appointed the Music Academy in Bucharest where he completed his classial music studies.
During that time he discovered his affection for improvised music and founded his first jazz Band Opus 4 in the early eighties, with pianist Mircea Tiberian and sax player Dan Mandrila. This band soon became the most successful jazz band in Romania. After numerous appearances in the country and invitations to jazz festivals in East-Berlin and Warsaw he decided to emigrate to the west in 1989.
Arriving in Vienna he met both local and international jazz heroes and, for the first time in his life, had the opportunity to play with them. Among them Art Farmer, Leo Wright, Idris Muhammad, Jim Pepper, Harry Sokal, Christian Muthspiel and others and, with the latter, he recorded his first album in the west as a sideman.
The late nineties showed up with many engagements in Germany, where he settled in 1997 in Cologne. There he met local musicians and further developed a new project, called "Balkan Jazz".
In fall 2001 intuition released a live recording from the Stadtgarten in Colognein collaboration with german radio station Deutsche Welle . On this CD, Balkan Jazz, Nicolas Simion found a congenial partner in legendary yugoslav trumpeter Dusko Goykovich.
Nicolas Simion is one of the most innovative musicians on today's scene. A growing audience is observing his development as he is finding his way to the musical "Olymp". |
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