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Philipp Gerschlauer

Institut für Musik

Saxophonist Philipp Gerschlauer can be considered a pioneer in combining elements of early blues, free improvisation, contemporary composition, and jazz. 
Besides being an active musician, he teaches clinics at various institutions around the globe and is involved in different Artistic Research projects. His fingering chart for the alto saxophone includes around 600 fingerings that significantly enhance the playing techniques of the Saxophone and facilitate pitch classes used in early jazz and contemporary music. His works on the integration of Just Intonation, 24 EDO into Bebop have been the subject of various Bachelor´s and Master´s theses and have been published in music theory books.

Gerschlauer also plays the church organ and performs concerts in which he plays saxophone and organ simultaneously. Besides that, he is playing regularly with different people of the German, Austrian, and American Jazz and Contemporary scenes.

At the age of 15, he was accepted to study classical saxophone at the Music University of Frankfurt/Main. He graduated from the Jazzinstitut Berlin and moved to New York City to receive his master's degree at New York University. 

As a bandleader, he has recorded several CDs as leader and sideman with different formations. His recording Mikrojazz - neue expressionistische Musik (David Fiuczynski, Jack DeJohnette, Matt Garrison, Giorgi Mikadze / RareNoise Records) was internationally widely acclaimed and voted the 2nd best jazz album of the year by The New York City Jazz Record. 

He received multiple scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation, the German Student Exchange Service (DAAD), the New York University, the German Research Center in Venice, the Senat of Berlin, and others.

Besides his teaching position at the University of Applied Science Osnabrück, he is a faculty member of the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK).