bio

Because Sven’s parents and stepmother were artists and musicians back then, they are an important part of the vita. This colourful, creative and inspired life inspired and shaped him even as a child.

Since there are records of many projects, a chronological order is used.

The projects are then often linked.

• Son of Karin Micha, Waldorf teacher, and Werner Götz, visual artist

MND – Moderne Nordeuropaeische Dorfmusik

Grew up with Uta Helene Götz, Svens second Mother, visual artist

grew up in Sweden, Northern Germany and Berlin

• started playing the guitar at the age of 12

• 1985- 86: studied at the Swiss Jazz School, Bern / Switzerland

• 1st prize in the 1988 young talent competition at the Freiburg Jazz and Rock School with  MAN NOT MAN

Studio musician in pop productions

• since 1989: music school teacher

• 1989- 1996: leader of the fusion trio PANJOY

• since 1993 FRIDGE PEOPLE, Funk-Jazzband

• Education: Stuttgart State University of Music and Performing Arts Major in jazz guitar, minor in classical guitar, and postgraduate work in artistic studies / STAATLICHEN HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST, Stuttgart

• since 1996: teacher at the FELLBACH MUSIC SCHOOL

• 1997/98: freely improvised music with Rade Soric project “ZWEI-DREI-VIER”, 2nd winner of the Jazz Prize Baden-Württemberg 1998

• 1997- 2007: orchestra musician in the Stuttgart musicals “MISS SAIGON”, “TANZ DER VAMPIRE”, “CATS” and “MAMA MIA”

• since 1998: Guitar duo  DINNER 4 2

• 1999 – 2004 JUKE.BOX pop-jazz and soul cover band

• 2002 – 2004 “UNSERE REPUBLIK” at the LANDESTHEATER TÜBINGEN (LTT)

• 2002 R & B with MANUMATEI ( Four Music ), Germany tour

• 2002- 2005 TRI.POL, Nu-Jazz and Drum’n’Bass

• since 2003: music productions in own studio

•   since 2003 CAFEHAUSTRIO

CAPTURED MOMENTS Worldmusic-Trio since 2004

• 2005: Sweden tour with the SVEN GÖTZ TRIO

•   in 2005 and 2007: tours in Germany with the SVEN GÖTZ QUARTETT

•   2007: Head of the music project group “WERK-STADT-UTOPIA”, Fellbach Youth Art School

•  2007: musical direction and composition for “BUZZ ADAMS – HERO OF THE GALAXY” at the JUNGEN ENSEMBLE STUTTGART

•   2008- 2010: „WANN WENN NICHT JETZT“ at the BADISCHEN STAATSTHEATER, KARLSRUHE

•  2009: composer of 3 titles in German Realbook, Nil Verlag, Bremen  (Downloads)

•  2009: setting of poems by Friedrich Schiller and musical direction for UNSER TOTER FREUND SOLL LEBEN at the WÜRTTEMBERGISCHEN LANDESBÜHNE ESSLINGEN / WLB

•   2009- 2014: duo with  LIV SOLVEIG UND SVEN GÖTZ, Scandinavian folk songs, jazz, and original music

•   2009 – 2012 “BILLIE HOLIDAY, LADY SINGS THE BLUES” at THEATER TONNE, Reutlingen / “IM WEISSEN RÖSSL”, ALTES SCHAUSPIELHAUS, STUTTGART, and others.

•   2011- 2012 composition and musical direction for  “DIE GROßE FRAGE” at the WÜRTTEMBERGISCHEN LANDESBÜHNE ESSLINGEN / WLB

•  2013: guitarist and co-composer in “DON QUIJOTE”, by Heiner Kondschak, at THEATER LINDENHOF, Melchingen

•  2011-2013: guitarist in “DYLAN – THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING” at the WLB, Esslingen

•    2011- 2014: musical direction, composition, singing and guitar at “JAZZ FÜR KINDER” at the WLB Esslingen

•  2013: “LYSISTRATA” at the WLB Esslingen / “RIO REISSER / KING OF GERMANY”, THEATER TONNE, Reutlingen

• 2015 – 2018 “DYLAN – THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN´ ” at the BADISCHEN STAATSTHEATER, Karlsruhe

•  Since 2015, “FLIEGEN, EIN ABEND IN DER ATMOSPHÄRE” with Robert Atzlinger and Sven Götz

•  2015 JAZZ@LARGE in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart

• 2016 “BILLIE HOLIDAY, LADY SINGS THE BLUES” at NOLTES THEATER / Überlingen / and RABENBÜHNE in Filderstadt-Bernhausen

•  2016 and 2017: lecturer at the DAA (GERMAN EMPLOYEES AKADEMIE) for music education

• 2018: solo concerts

• from 2018 John Scofield Project “SCO TO GO” with G. Ziegler, G. Kögel,  S. Günther-Martens

•2019: concerts with the New York trombonist, Erick Storkmann /

“CREATION” Musical reading with Dorothea Balzer, Various concerts with SVEN GÖTZ & FRIENDS

• 2021, Jazz & Literature / “WALK – OR THE ART OF LEADING A WILD AND POETIC LIFE” , live stream from the BADISCHEN STAATSTHEATER KARLSRUHE and FOUR-GEE live at the IG Jazz Summer 2021

• 2021 “NO POWER FOR NOBODY”, THEATER TONNE, Reutlingen

•  2022: live stream concert Hemingway Lounge, Karlsruhe and KULTURSOMMER, Freudenstadt with CAFEHAUSTRIO / CD release concert, SIMPLE SONGS BAND, TEMPEL Karlsruhe

• 2022: composing + recording of music for the Spanish-German Puppet-theater’s play “WITCH WAY TO THE CLOUDS?”