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Philipp Schiepek appointed professor of jazz guitar

18. November ’25

Our university has appointed Philipp Schiepek as professor of jazz guitar. The versatile guitarist and composer will take up his position at the HMTM Jazz Institute on November 20, 2025.

Philipp Schiepek is taking on the professorship with great enthusiasm and motivation:

" I am very much looking forward to the inspiring collaboration with the students and a highly qualified faculty. Especially in improvised music, there are countless individual paths for students to follow. This makes me all the more excited to join the students in their search for their own voice - with openness, curiosity, and mutual appreciation. Making music together is particularly important to me: jazz is created and grows precisely through interaction with others."

Philipp Schiepek has mastered both jazz and classical guitar at the highest level and enjoys moving between genres. In recent years, Philipp Schiepek has therefore mainly performed his own compositions with his jazz projects and interpreted music for solo guitar. With his compositions and his playing, he is developing a new, individual musical language.

He has performed with his ensembles at the Berlin Jazz Festival, the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, Jazz and the City Salzburg, and the Europe Sound Festival in Ankara, among others. His concerts have been broadcast by ARTE, Deutschlandfunk, and Bayerischer Rundfunk, among others.

Philipp Schiepek received a music scholarship from the City of Munich in 2019 and was awarded the BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award in 2020. Most recently, Schiepek received the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize 2024 in the music category and the City of Munich Promotion Prize 2025.

He studied jazz guitar at the University of Music Würzburg and the University of Music and Theater Munich. He also holds a master's degree in classical guitar.