Artist Info: Oliver Leicht

Oliver Leicht (born 2 October 1969 in Gross-Gerau ) is a German jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.

Life and Work

Grew up in the Nauheim, initially learned recorder, began clarinet lessons at the age of ten, and saxophone lessons from the age of seventeen. As a student of Immanuel Kant school in Rüsselsheim , he played in the school band, and then in the ICS Big Band. From 1986 to 1997 he studied classical clarinet at the music academies of Mannheim and Cologne, also from 1992, jazz saxophone in Cologne. [read more...]