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born on 08/10/1982 in Tuebingen (Germany), grown up in Tuebingen / Firenze (Italy) / Mochenwangen / Ravensburg until 2002 trombone-lessons with Ernst Hutter, Jiggs Whigham, Adrian Mears piano-lessons with Roland Klugger several prizes at the final round of the nationwide competition "Jugend Musiziert" in different categories: piano for four hands, brass-quartet and trombone solo performance of the "Concerto for trombone and chamber orchestra" written by Lars Erik Larsson first prize at "Jugend Jazzt" Bavaria newcomer-prize of the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung", largest newspaper in southern germany with the band "Fast Break Quintet" 1998 - 2002 member of the national youth jazz orchestra of germany under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer; concerts featuring John Ruocco, Phil Woods, Gunter Schuller, Lalo Schiffrin and others; lessons with Bart and Erik van Lier 2002-2004 student at the University of the Arts, Berlin (main subject jazz-trombone), lessons with Adrian Mears, Hubert Nuss, David Friedman, Joachim Mittelacher, Jerry Granelli, Owen Howard 2003 winner of the internationally reputated "Frank Rosolino Competition" for young jazz-trombone players in Helsinki tour through Sibiria with the Summit Jazz Orchestra foundation of the "Johannes Lauer Quintet" 2004 Concerts at the International TongYeong Music Festival (South Korea) with own quintet ("Quinquilation 2004") Erasmus-scholarship to study one year in Lucerne (CH), main subjects trombone and composition; lessons with Nils Wogram, Dieter Ammann, Ed Neumeister, David Angel, Ludwig Wicki, Markus Wuest, Kurt Rosenwinkel invitation to attend the program of the Unesco on the occasion of the "International Music Day Celebrations" (Paris) 2005 member of the sextet "Young Friends" feat. Axel Schlosser, Florian Trübsbach, Michael Wollny, Eva Kruse, Eric Schaefer, CD "Great German Songbook" produced by Wolfgang Haffner (ACT 9652-2), concerts on international festivals (Frankfurt, St. Ingbert, Munich, Augsburg...) and at NDR (Hamburg) winner of the Prix "Coup de Cœur" at the "Premier Concours de Jeunes Solistes de JAZZ" Fribourg, Switzerland music for Simon Eltz' short film "Wolkenbruch", who was rewarded the Swiss Film Prize in the category "best animated film" and shown on film-festivals in India, Russia, Japan, Denmark and Czechia 2006 diplomas in "Jazz-Performance" (trombone) and "Jazz-Composition" at Lucerne School of Music, both "with distinction" foundation of Die Zusammenkunft and Johannes Lauers Streicheinheit one year full-scholarship of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to study at City College, New York (Master program), lessons with John Patitucci, Josh Roseman, Tony Malaby, Steve Turre a.o. admission to the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop with Jim McNeely and Michael Abene 2007 permiere of "Scenes" at Carnegie Hall, composition for two voices and chamber music ensemble commissioned by the Weill Music Institute as part of the "Professional Training Workshop" with Dawn Upshaw and Oswaldo Golijov comission to write music for large ensemble for the opening concert of the festival "Jazzherbst" in Constance, foundation of Lauer Large and the Duo Lauer/Sorey upon invitation by the Goethe-Institute participation at the first EurOpen Meeting at Copenhagen Jazzhouse with Médéric Colignon (F), Søren Kjærgaard (DK), Jonas Westergaard (DK), Paal Nilssen Love (NO) 2008 february to june in West-Africa; on tour with Abdoulaye Diabaté and the Koutiala Orchestra (Mali / Burkina Faso) on tour in South Korea with the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, concert at Jazzfest Berlin 2009 member of "Jazz Kollektiv Berlin" (Wanja Slavin, Marc Schmolling, Felix Wahnschaffe, Daniel Glatzel, Gerhard Gschlössl, Ronny Graupe, Philipp Gropper) theatre-music for the theatre company "Chawwerusch", summer-tour with 35 (mostly sold out) shows foundation of Lauer/Malaby/Gress/Sorey, Johanna und Johannes and Morf 2010 CD-Release Lauer Large - "Konstanz Suite" on the label Jazzwerkstatt Berlin-Brandenburg and subsequent Release-Tour (D/DK) study trip to Peru

Concerts / Recordings with Rias Big Band, NDR Big Band, WDR Big Band, Bobby Burgess Big Band Explosion, Sunday Night Orchestra, Summit Jazz Orchestra, Zürich Jazz Orchestra, Copenhagen Art Ensemble Chris Speed, Steffen Schorn, Loren Stillman, Christian Weidner, Wanja Slavin, Lenny Pickett, Tony Lakatos, Domenic Landolf, Ernst Ludwig Petrowski, Niels Klein, Lotte Anker, Jukka Perko, Robert Dick, Al Porcino, Bill Forman, Claus Stötter, Eric Vloeimans, Axel Schlosser, Médéric Colignon, Thomas Gansch, Matthias Spillmann, Peter Evans, Jen Shyu, Kalle Kalima, Ronny Graupe, Marc Ducret, Frank Möbus, Michael Wollny, Jasper van`t Hof, Rainer Tempel, Søren Kjærgaard, Achim Kaufmann, Benedikt Jahnel, Henning Sieverts, Jonas Westergaard, Daniel Schröteler, Dejan Terzic, Holger Nell, Eric Schaefer, John Schröder, John Hollenbeck, Dan Weiss, Paal Nilssen Love, Tyshawn Sorey