However, it took several years after they had achieved their “Bachelors of Music“ to finally find the time for joint projects.

Florian Hierdeis, born april 13, 1977 in Augsburg (Germany) has been playing the guitar since he was ten years old.

In 1998 he signed up at the College for Music in Krumbach (Bavaria, Germany).His teachers were Torsten de Winkel (Pat Metheny), Mini Schulz and Marcus Bodenseh.

In 2000 he was enrolled at the “Conservatorium van Amsterdam“. His main subjectteachers were: Maarten van der Grinten, Jesse van Ruller a.o. During the following 4 years, he attended masterclasses with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Nelson Faria, Pat Martino, Mike Sternand completed his studies in 2005. Florian Hierdeis has been activelyinvolved in the Amsterdam music scene; he is a composer and plays inthe Netherlands as well as abroad with a variety of famous musicians like Rick Margitza (Miles Davis), Ben van Gelder, Natalio Sued a.o.

Since 2007 he is teacher for jazz-guitar main subject at the DJAM, a music-school for jazz and improvised music.

Andreas Metzler, born june 2, 1974 in Bern (Switzerland), completed his studies under Frans van der Hoeven, Arnold Dooyeweerd, Maggie Urquhart, and Peter Stotijn at the “Conservatorium van Amsterdam“ in 2004.

For many years Andreas has been an active member of the Amsterdam jazz scene and has played at a number of national and international occasions with famous jazz musicians such as Berend van den Berg, Joris Roelofs,Saskia Laroo, Nomy Rosenberg, Lils Macintosh, Michiel Borstlap,Shibly Band a.o.

Andreas has played many festivals in Germany, Italy and Austria. Currently he is working on his project, the „ANDREAS METZLER’S NEW SOLUTIONS QUARTET“ , for which he is composing and arranging various pieces from the famous french composer Erik Satie.

Andreas is also working at the DJAM. He is combo teacher.