Photo by Uwe Schwarze

Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Johannes Haage started playing music on violin from age 5, but switched to guitar about eight years later. As a high school exchange student in Portland, Oregon he started playing jazz regularly and continued to do so back home. He started his college education at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, but soon transfered to Berlin to finish his studies.

Over the years, his travels playing and studying music have taken him to places such as the Center of the Arts in Banff, Canada, and to New York City where he had the chance to play with and deepen his studies with Bill Frisell, Brad Shepik, Ben Monder, Mark Turner, Dave Douglas, Drew Gress, Ralph Alessi and many others.

Haage is a very active member of the vital young jazz and improvised music scene. Since moving to Berlin in 2002, he has performed with many different musicians including Simon Bauer, Brendan Dougherty, Philipp Gropper, Ben Kraef, Ritsche Koch, Diego Pinera, Mark Reinke and Oli Steidle.

The Johannes Haage Trio, featuring Andreas Lang on bass and Sebastian Merk on drums released their debut album Johannes Haage Trio plays Marlene Dietrich to national acclaim in November 2010 (Meta Records).

www.johanneshaage.com