Johannes Maikranz

Johannes Maikranz started on the guitar at just nine years of age, and almost immediately discovered jazz. At fourteen, he had already earned a first prize at "Jugend Jazzt" (a German youth jazz festival).
For six months he went to see a bit of the world in Rio de Janeiro, then returned for guitar studies with Wolfgang Muthspiel at the Academy of Music in Basel, which he concluded in 2013 with a Master of Arts. During this time he began to intensively study arrangement and composition, to which his lessons under Ed Partyka, Django Bates, Aydin Esen and Qiming Yuan can readily testify.
His adopted hometown of Basel is also home base for the John Maikranz Sextet, founded in 2013. Their debut CD 6/1 was also recorded there. It documents his work up to now, and acts as the initial spark to a promising career.