Tian Long Li

Tian Long Li is a tutor for our jazz workshops, in addition to teaching basic jazz and combo. 

Tian Long Li is a harmonica player from Southern China. He was born in Nanchang in 1987. From 2004 to 2008, he studied abstract art majoring in oil painting at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing. At the age of 20, he began playing the blues on the harmonica. He taught himself how to make music with it, heavily influenced by B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, James Cotton, and others. 

Through the cultural festival „China and Germany Moving Together“, Tian Long Li was given the opportunity to travel to Germany to play concerts and to begin his initial musical training at the Hohner Conservatoire in Trossingen in 2011. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Performance at the Jazz and Rock Schools in Freiburg from 2013 to 2017. From 2017 to 2021, he completed two Master's degrees in Performance and Pedagogy with Domenic Landolf, Hans Feigenwinter and Matthieu Michel at the Jazzcampus in Basel. He also took private lessons with the French harmonica player Olivier Ker Ourio. 

Tian Long Li's style is open, as he plays jazz, blues, and world music, etc. In Basel, he explored his first quartet. He enjoys writing many of his own compositions with a strong, distinctive personality of their own.