Johannes Enders is a German saxophonist, composer, producer and teacher. Since 2009 he has held a professorship for jazz saxophone at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. After meeting key figures like Jerry Bergonzi and David Liebman, with his mentors Vincent Herring and Reggie Workman, who arranged for him a scholarship to the New School in New York, his long-cherished dream of moving to the capital of jazz to study there and with greats like Donald Byrd and Jaki Byard came true, Jeff Tain Watts, Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Joey Calderazzo, Sam Rivers, Peter Bernstein, Joe Locke, Pete LaRoca, Roy Hargrove and many others.
His silver trophy at the American Music Fest in San Francisco (1990) and participation in the renowned Thelonious Monk competition in Washington D.C. the following year also pave the way for him in the promised land.
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