Offshore Quintet

Saxophonist Christoph Möckel began his music career as prizewinner of the German federal contest "Jugend Jazzt" (Young People Play Jazz" and "Jugend Musiziert" (Young People Play Music), studied under Ignaz Dinné (Jazz thing Next Generation 2004!) and Julia Hülsmann, among others, later in den USA and in numerous workshops, and graduated in Cologne with Distinction in 2011.
Dierk Peters is an outstanding vibraphonist, who has also won numerous prizes, a few as duo partner of Charlotte Greve (with her Liesbeth Quartet Jazz thing Next Generation 2010). Not unusual, but certainly helpful for him was the fact that he first learned to play the drums and only discovered his love of vibraphone as an adolescent. This also explains his stupendous variety of rhythms.
Constantin Krahmer completed his piano studies in Cologne in 2011 where he studied under John Taylor, Hubert Nuss and Florian Ross, among others. Numerous workshops with Kenny Werner and Simon Nabatov, among others, rounded out his education. But the result is not only convincing with respect to his piano playing, but also thanks to the compositions. He composed half of the pieces on "Côte de Cologne" (Dierk Peters composed the other half).
Oliver Lutz also completed his studies in Cologne in 2011 and has been a bassist in demand since then (but not only since then), not only in other bands (he won the "Jugend Jazzt" prize with "Besaxung"), but also thanks to his playing at the Mannheim National Theater, for example. The fact that he received a scholarship from the "Yehudi Menuhin Association" was also for a good reason.
Rafael Calman initial taught himself drumming before he studied under Keith Copeland and Jonas Burgwinkel in Cologne, among others. His very attentive accompanying is very striking: always supportive and driving. Maybe that is also due to the unusual gift (but certainly not superfluous one!) for a drummer of perfect pitch.