The current program of the Florian Döling Quartet - founded for the summer garden concerts 2024 of the Freiburg musicians' initiative Jazz am Schönberg - is On the Road. A program title that, on the one hand, stands for a new song by Florian Döling of the same name, and on the other hand, for being on the road, being on tour, the everyday life of musicians. And being on the road in the sense of new musical challenges in a new line-up, always in search of new forms of expression for one's own music. Consequently, the album title is "Frozen Moments": what is meant is capturing the music in the moment of recording, in the next concert it will sound different again...

In Florian Döling's newly formed quartet, two generations come together: on the one hand, the young, rising generation with Charlotte Lang, Linus Rebmann and Aaron Döling. On the other hand, the established generation with Florian Döling.

For quite some time, Florian Döling has wanted to see how his compositions would be interpreted by the next generation. Selected compositions by his fellow musicians complement the program.

The program is stylistically very rich: from quiet, floating ballads to heavy swinging, melodic songs and hot funk grooves to open parts, sometimes in almost psychedelic moods.

The Swiss-Dutch saxophonist Charlotte Lang studied at the Jazzcampus in Basel and at the renowned Berklee Collage of Music in Boston. Charlotte was part of Terri Lyne Carrington's "Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice" and was one of five musicians chosen as "Sisters in Jazz" in 2023. Charlotte has had the opportunity to perform with some of the most celebrated bands in the Swiss and European music scene, including the Swiss Jazz Orchestra, the Zurich Jazz Orchestra and the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra. From 2020 to 2022, Charlotte was a member of the renowned German Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO), playing baritone saxophone and bass clarinet. She has been back in Switzerland since August 2023, and her debut album The Journey, recorded in Boston, was released on 25 October 2024.

Photo Charlotte Lang: Ken Yinhttps://www.charlottelang.com/

Linus Rebmann (born 2006) is a young pianist and composer from Freiburg. Despite his young age, he already has a successful trio that won the main prize, the Deutschlandfunk studio prize, at the german "Jugend Jazzt" national competition in May 2024. In 2022, at the age of 15, he was the youngest participant to win 3rd prize at the 8th International Jazzhaus Piano Competition in Freiburg/D. In addition, he has been a pre-student in the classes of Helmut Lörscher, Ralf Schmid and Timur Gasratov at the Freiburg University of Music since 2023. He was also a member of the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Jazz Orchestra and is memeber of the Freiburg Jazzhaus Youth Orchestra (JJO) under the direction of Will Bartlett, with whom he also has additional lessons.

Photo Linus Rebmann: © Christian Borchers, Bundesbegegnung Jugend jazzt 2024

Aaron Döling (*2007) has been taking lessons in classical percussion (vibraphone, marimba, and percussion) and drums with Friedemann Stert since the age of five. In addition, he has been taking lessons with jazz drummer Rolf Kilchling since 2023. He is a multiple first prize winner in the Jugend musiziert competition in the categories classical percussion (solo and ensemble) and drum set pop (solo), most recently winning first prize (highest score, AG V) at the national competition in Wuppertal in June 2025 in the category classical percussion (participating with marimba, snare drum, and drum set).

Since 2016, he has been a permanent member of the Kaiserstuhl Percussion ensemble under the direction of Friedemann Stert. He has also been a member of the Landes-Jugend-Percussion Ensemble Baden-Württemberg (LJPE BW) under the direction of Prof. Jochen Schorer since 2019. In 2022, he played in the Bundesjugendorchester (BJO) during a work phase. In addition, he regularly plays percussion and timpani in various project orchestras. Since the winter semester of 2023, he has been playing in the student KHG orchestra. Furthermore, he has been a member of the Freiburg Jazzhaus Youth Orchestra (JJO) under the direction of Will Bartlett since 2023 and a member of the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Orchestra (LJO BW) since 2024. Since the winter semester of 2024, he has been a pre-student at the Freiburg Academy of Music (FAB) with Prof. Håkon Stene.

Tilman Günther studierte in München und lebt im südbadischen Müllheim, wo er auch geboren wurde.

Ruben Kilchling is 29 years old and comes from Endingen a.K. in southern Baden.

As the son of drummer Rolf Kilchling, he has been playing the piano and drums since early childhood. Ruben earned the Golden Performance Badge as a drummer and the Silver Performance Badge on the flute. He also took part in competitions such as Jugend musiziert. It was not until the age of 17 that he decided to take up the saxophone and then studied saxophone and flute at the renowned Jazzcampus music academy in Basel.

He recorded his debut album Kilchling & Kilchling - Favorit Songs with his father in 2019 and is co-founder of the Basel band ASRA, with whom he released the album Nocturnal Journey in 2022. He has been a member of the Swiss Youth Jazz Orchestra since 2019 and contributed to their album "Die Kuh auf dem Eis" in 2022. Since summer 2024, he has also been a member of the Moritz Renner Jazz Orchestra.

He conducts the two big bands "Constellation Big Band" and "Windkraft Big Band" and gives private lessons in saxophone, clarinet, flute, and drums.

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