Lennart Schandl (*2003) is a bassist and improviser from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He discovered the electric bass and his love for distorted guitars at the age of 13, after playing the violin throughout his childhood.
In 2022, Lennart moved to Bern (CH), where he studied at Hochschule der Künste Bern and completed a Master's Degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance in 2026. He currently lives and works in Bern and regularly performs in Switzerland and across Europe.
His musical work falls within the realms of free improvisation, experimental music/noise and alternative rock, pop and indie, often fusing abstract sound design with song-based approaches. Lennart is interested in using the electric bass in many different ways (to its fullest potential), staying in touch with the instrument's tradition and its role in popular music, while also using it as a tool for experimental sound design, expanding its expressive possibilities. In addition, Lennart works with electronics, using tape, no-input mixing, feedback and other devices to add to his sonic palette.
Lennart has had the pleasure of performing and collaborating with artists such as Jim Black and Cansu Tanrikulu's Piled Up and close Swiss collaborators like Michèle Fella, Camille Santacroce, Lucas Sevilla, Simon Guyer and others at venues and festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Festival da Jazz St. Moritz, Jazzwerkstatt Bern, Lana Meets Jazz, Moods Zürich, Kantine am Berghain, and the Jazzclub Luzern.
With the Maud Paquis Quintet, he won the Audience Prize at the 2024 ZKB Jazz Prize.
Studies
Hochschule der Künste Bern
Master studies Music Performance – Jazz and Contemporary Music
with Stefan Rademacher, Patrice Moret, Jim Black, Biliana Voutchkova, Cansu Tanrıkulu
Hochschule der Künste Bern
Bachelor studies Jazz, electric bass
Shows
Drop The Spoon Live Exploration Vol. 4 w/ Nicoline Andrea Janka & Basil Schreyer
Drop The Spoon · Gewerbehalle Baselstrasse 46 6003 Lucerne, Switzerland
Drop The Spoon Live Exploration Vol. 5 w/ Julia Süess
Drop The Spoon · Gewerbehalle Baselstrasse 46 6003 Lucerne, Switzerland
Maud Paquis @ Jazzclub Luzern
Maud Paquis · Jazz Club Luzern Stollbergrain 4 6003 Lucerne, Switzerland
ottotto @ WIM Bern
ottotto · PROGR Waisenhausplatz 30 3011 Bern, Switzerland
Drop The Spoon Live Exploration Vol. 6 w/ Josephine Nagorsnik
Drop The Spoon · Gewerbehalle Baselstrasse 46 6003 Lucerne, Switzerland
Maud Paquis @ Le Port Franc
Maud Paquis · Le Port Franc Route de Riddes 87 1950 Sion, Switzerland
Drop The Spoon Live Exploration Vol. 7 w/ Leander Schöpfer
Drop The Spoon · Gewerbehalle Baselstrasse 46 6003 Lucerne, Switzerland
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