Simon Kuhn

Simon Kuhn was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 2003. Here he was raised and started to received drums lessons at the age of 8. In the years before his studies, his teacher at the time piqued his interest in jazz with albums such as Coltranes My Favorite Things.
Since 2021 he studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, where his man subject teachers are Thomas Alkier and Sebastian Gille. Since his studies he played concerts in varios venues and fetivals within Germany and shared the stage with among others Vanja Kevresan, Reggie Washington, Ryan Carniaux and the “WDR-Funkhaus-Orchester” conducted by Bar Avni.
He also had the privalege of having lessons with Leif Berger, Mark Miralta and Jonathan Blake.
With his Quartet, which was founded in Summer 2023, he was Awarded with the “Jazz@undesigned”-Competition from the Dörken-foundation in 2024. They got together influenced by shared musical influences and over their first Concerts gradually moved on to playing Compositions of the Band members, while still sometimes celebrating Compositions of inspirations such as Ralph Towner and Jaso Palmer. In the summer of 2025, they recorded their debut album at and with funds from the Folkwang University of the Arts.
As a sideman he contributed to Projects from Anna Galtschenko (“JüttingScholarship 2025”), Dennis Grasmik (Dörken-Foundation 2024), Ania Badura and more.