Career

Personal Information

• Date of Birth: March 23rd 1966
• Leipzig, Germany
• Family status: married
• Nationality: German

Schooling / Studies

• 1979 - 1982
  music school
  main subjects: saxophone, clarinet
• 1982 - 1988
  Felix Mendelssohn Barholdy, college of music, Leipzig
  main subjects: saxophone, clarinet
• 1984 and 1986
  international jazz workshop, Ungarn
• 2001
  Queens College, jazz study, New York
  main subjects: saxophone and arrangement

Professional Expierience

• 1986
  recordings with the jazz quartet "Tett" on "Amiga"
• 1988 - 1994
  1st tenor saxophonist, solo with clarinet, Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin
• 1996
  1st clarinetist with saxophone, "Südbrandenburger Orchester"
• 1997 - 2000
  teacher at the "Da Capo" school of music, Erfurt
• since 1997
  1st alto saxophonist as a solo player in a professional Orchestra in Thuringia

Concerts, Performances

• 1990
  group "Unity" in Vienna in the "Kreis" theater
• 1990
  "Hannes Zerbe Blechband" in Wuppertal
• 1990
  jazz orchestra, Günther "Baby" Sommer, Jazzfest Berlin
• 1992
  Sirone Jones and René Schönherr duo at the Greifswald Jazz Days, CD
  recording, radio, television broadcast on "Norddeutscher Rundfunk"
• 1995
  own jazz trio "Spacetrio" in clubs in Berlin: Franzclub, Schlot, Junctionbar, Kulturbrauerei, Acut, Brauhaus Spandau, Jazzkeller Treptow
• 1995
  performance with Rias Big Band, Director: Jiggs
• 1995
  René Schönherr quartet, Jazzkeller Treptow
• since 2001
  jazz quartet "Moment's Notice"
• since 2001
  jazz sessions in Leipzig, Weimar and Erfurt
• 2003
  finalist with "Moment's Notice", Yamaha saxophone contest
• 2007/2008
  Jazz Quartett Louis Romanos

Artistic cooperations:

• Michael P. Mossman, Antonio Hart, Sirone Jones, H. Nonnenmacher, R. Robben, Wolfram Dix, Ray Katzchinsky, Stephan König, Thomas Moritz, F. E. Moll, Helmuth Brandt (Rias Big Band) and Louis Romanos