Alexander Parzhuber

Alexander Parzhuber, born 1996 in Landshut, is a young German drummer, composer, mixing-/mastering engineer and educator based in Cologne.
He studied Jazz Drums from October 2014 until March 2020 at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Prof. Jonas Burgwinkel, Alex Vesper and Dietmar Fuhr. During his studies he was a member of the German National Youth Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO) from 2016 until 2018. With this band he had the chance to work with artists like Niels Klein, Jiggs Whigham, Randy Brecker, Jörg Achim Keller, Pablo Held and the WDR Big Band. They toured several tours in Germany and around the globe.
With the help of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship, he was able to study one year (2020/2021) in France at the Conservatoire Supérieur National de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Dré Pallemaerts.

These days Alexander plays mainly in original artistic projects like Parzhuber Trio, The Human Element, Kurz/Ludwig/Parzhuber, Simon Nabatov Trio, La Campagne, Vagabond Souls and Byrd Dhillon. As sideman he plays nationally and internationally with band like Simon Nabatov, Nathan East, Tineke Postma, the WDR Big Band, Subway Jazz Orchestra, Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Projects by Fabian Dudek, Heidi Bayer’s Virtual Leak, Simon Oslender and the Jacob Manz Project.

Besides his live performances Alexander is frequently mixing and mastering albums like e.g. River – The Human Element, Percussion EP II – Felix Hauptmann, Janos Löber 4tet and recording drums for artists like Lisl and Lisa Spielmann.

Since October 2021 Alexander is teaching Jazz Drums at the University of Music and Theatre Munich.