Tilo Weber
Tilo Weber writes music for his own bands Animate Repose and Four Fauns and takes the drum chair in bands such as The David Friedman Generations Trio and Generations Quartet, The Clara Haberkamp Trio (Jazzbaltica Award 2011), And the Golden Choir, and Y-Otis...
Biography
Tilo Weber (*1990 Aachen, Germany) is a drummer and composer working in Berlin.
He writes music for his own bands Animate Repose and Four Fauns and takes the drum chair in bands such as The David Friedman Generations Trio and Generations Quartet, The Clara Haberkamp Trio (Jazzbaltica Award 2011), And the Golden Choir, and Y-Otis.
In 2017 Tilo Weber and David Friedman founded their own label Malletmuse Records.
Tilo is endorsing sticks from INNOVATIVE PERCUSSION.
Tilo Weber studied drums at the Jazz Institut Berlin from 2009 to 2014 with Prof. John Hollenbeck and Composition at the University for Music an Theater Hamburg from 2015 to 2017 with Prof. Ruta Paidere. In 2017 he studied classical percussion with percussionist and composer Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wulff in Freiburg. He also studied privately with Christoph Hillmann, Steffen Thormählen und Harald Ingenhag.
Collaborations with Greg Cohen, Peter Brötzmann, David Friedman, Rudi Mahall, Chris Dahlgren and Tobias Siebert bring him to the national stage (JazzBaltica Festival) and international festivals of various genres.
From 2015 to 2017 he received the Dr. E. A. Langner Scholarship in Hamburg and worked with the NDR Big Band.
Since 2017 Tilo Weber also plays drums at the famous Berliner Ensemble for the plays “Panikherz” and “Eine Familie”.
Debut Release of Animate Repose at shoebill music exclusively on 12″ Vinyl.
Current album

Tilo Weber & Four Fauns - Faun Renaissance
Tilo Weber - drums & comp
Claudio Puntin - clarinet
Richard Koch - trumpet
James Banner - bass
“Since Berlin drummer and composer Tilo Weber established the acoustic quartet “Four Fauns”, they have managed to captivate with transparency and grace. With Clarinetist Claudio Puntin, Trumpeter Richard Koch, and Bassist James Banner, Weber transports music through the centuries and into modernity, reimagining the Renaissance through his own distinctive lens.”
Buy albumDiscography
- Tilo Weber & Four Fauns - Faun Renaissance, 2021
- Magdalena Ganter - Neo Noir, 2021
- Otis Sandsjö - Y-OTIS II, 2020
- David Friedman Generations Quartet - A Christmas Gathering, 2019
- David Friedman Generations Quartet - Flight, 2018
- Tilo Weber Quartet - Four Fauns, 2018
- Otis Sandsjö - Y-OTIS, 2018
- David Friedman Generations Trio - Thursday, 2018
- Lucia Cadotsch - Speak Low Renditions, 2017
- Clara Haberkamp Trio - Orange Blossom, 2016
- Tilo Weber - Animate Repose, 2016
- Xavier Darcy - Extended Play II, 2015
- Clara Haberkamp Trio - You Sea!, 2015
- Simon Kanzler - Talking Hands, 2015
- Clara Haberkamp Trio - Nicht rot, nicht weiß, nicht blau, 2013
- Simon Kanzler - Talking Hands, 2012
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