The Seagulls play old jazz classics with their own arrangements. There are many appearances in jazz clubs, at festivals, on the radio etc.
The jazz band "Swinging Seagulls" was formed in 2016 and is dedicated to the swing and standards of the early 20s and 30s.
Saxophonist and singer Andreas Pasternack is one of the best-known and most popular musicians in our country, but has also performed to great acclaim in Japan, Poland and the USA. He leads his own big band, presents the NDR radio program "Jazztime" once a week and is a cultural award winner of the
of the Hanseatic City of Rostock and the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Franz-Josef Lübken has been the musical director of the Bonn jazz band "Doktor Jazz Ambulanz" (DJA) since it was founded in 1977. The band has performed in many jazz clubs and festivals in Germany and abroad and has won the "WDR-Stadtmusik" competition. During his time in Bonn, he played in various bands in Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt and Berlin. He has been performing successfully with the DJA in the Kühlungsborn area for years.
Enrique Marcano-Gonzalez comes from Venezuela. He received his diploma in double bass at the Rostock University of Music and Drama. As a freelance bassist, he regularly performs as a guest at the Volkstheater Rostock, among many other projects.
Guitarist Christian Ahnsehl studied politics and philosophy, worked for a long time as a musician on cruise ships and has been Andreas Pasternack's musical partner on stage for eight years now.
The "Seagulls" now regularly give concerts in hotels and jazz clubs on the Baltic coast, but have also performed in other areas, such as jazz clubs in Berlin.
On the occasion of one concert, the President of the Leibniz Association, Prof. Kleiner, wrote:
"Seagulls - animals of longing on wings, approachable and majestic at the same time, move in wide circles anchored at home, evoking vastness and roaring. This is exactly how they sound and appear to their audience, the gentlemen of the Swinging Seagulls, who have melodically livened up the entire Leibniz community ... unwaveringly musical, cheerfulserious, powerful and rhythmic, with standards and the unconventional, when they open up spaces for sound and feeling - far beyond place and moment."
More information: https: //swinging-seagulls.de/
