Matthias Jann (trombone)
- born 1971 in Berlin
- studies in composition and music theory at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin
- studies in trombone at the University the of Arts, Berlin
- focus on contemporary music under the tutelage of Mike Svoboda, Uwe Dirksen and William Forman
- Laureate of the Kranichsteiner Music Award in 1996, scholarship holder of the senate of Berlin in 2001 for a stay at the Cité International des Arts Paris, scholarship of the German Music Council for conducting in 2001
- work as trombonist, composer, conducter and teacher
- since 1997 teaching assistantship for theory at the Academy of Arts Hanns Eisler Berlin
- Guest-trombonist with numerous ensembles for contemporary music (KNM Berlin; Ensemble Mosaik Berlin)
- since 2001 conducter and artistic director of the Jericho Brass Ensemble Berlin