Jakob Krupp is a highly talented double bass player equally active in classical, jazz, and contemporary music. His international musical career has taken him to concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Berlin Philharmonie, and the Wiener Musikverein. He has made guest appearances at festivals such as the Darmstadter Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, the Berliner Festspiele, and the Festspiele Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. Highlights of his career include concerts as a jazz soloist with the Staatsorchester Saarbrucken, the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, and the Munchner Symphoniker. During his studies, he became a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, where he worked with conductors such as Jonathan Nott, Ingo Metzmacher, and Sylvain Cambreling. In 2019 he was a double bass player in the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz. He currently collaborates with the Ensemble Reflektor.

Jakob Krupp had already become well known in the field of jazz at a young age. He won several prizes at “jugend jazzt,” and also won the concert prize at the Jazztage Dresden. Since then, he has been invited to jazz clubs and festivals throughout Germany, and has shared the stage with artists such as Tony Lakatos, Christof Lauer and Libor Šima.

A graduate of the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, Jakob Krupp is a highly regarded interpreter of contemporary music both as an ensemble musician and as a soloist, for example in projects with Ensemble Modern, Rimini Protokoll, Klangforum Heidelberg, and Orchester im Treppenhaus. He has collaborated with composers such as Brian Ferneyhough, Rebecca Saunders, and Heiner Goebbels, and has participated in numerous world premieres. In 2022 he was an artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Jakob Krupp grew up in Trier and, after graduating from the Conservatoire de Ville de Luxembourg, studied classical double bass and contemporary music at the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. Additionally, he has a low bass voice and is active as a singer.

See Jakob Krupp perform Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F with the RSNO on 20, 21 & 22 November 2025.