Atrin Madani
is a world traveller in jazz, firmly rooted in his Schöneberg neighbourhood. Born in 1998, he is a Berliner with no East or West before him, he did not experience the division of the city, never saw the Wall. Berlin became the capital and the seat of government, but for him it is above all the German capital of jazz. And there are no borders, no walls. Jazz is a universal language.

In 2017, he graduated from high school, paving the way for university studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden and the Jazz Institute Berlin. In 2018, he was honoured to be accepted into the vocal ensemble of the Bundesjazzorchester. In autumn 2019, he moved from the Elbe to the Spree and is now continuing his studies at the Jazz Institute Berlin (JIB). His teachers include: Céline Rudolph, Judy Niemack, Matthias Bätzel, Cymin Samawatie, Rabih Laoud Wolfgang Köhler and Paulo Morello. Atrin has had the great honour of performing with the likes of Django Bates, Jiggs Whigham, Marc Secara, Christian von Kaphengst, Torsten Goods, Thomas Stieger, Hendrik Smock, Benny Brown, Lisa Bassenge, Peter Fessler and many more.

Concert activities have already taken him to countries such as the USA, Canada, Israel, Madagascar, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. In September 2017, he had the great honour of performing at the civic festival of the German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and in October 2021, at the awarding of Berlin's honorary citizenship to the German President at Berlin's Rotes Rathaus. Since May 2022, Atrin has also been part of the programme of the Bar jeder Vernunft in Berlin with the programme "Der Mond hatte frei". In September 2021, Atrin recorded his debut album at Berlin's Hansa Studios, which is scheduled for release in the course of next year (2023).