A-TRANE PRÄSENTIERT:
Hugo Fernandez Quartett
«RIVERMIND»
Album Release Concert
Feat: Matt Adomeit-Mathias Ruppnig-Daniel Stawinsky

Hugo Fernandez Quartett
«RIVERMIND»
Album Release Concert
Feat: Matt Adomeit-Mathias Ruppnig-Daniel Stawinsky

The album Rivermind, recorded in Berlin in 2025, is the sixth release by the talented guitarist Hugo Fernández. It features seven new compositions performed by a Berlin-based quartet that creatively blends jazz with pop and folk influences. His earlier album, Cosmogram (2015, Origin Records), featuring Antonio Sánchez on drums, was selected by DownBeat magazine as one of the best albums of the year.
Hugo Fernandez teams up with German pianist Daniel Stawinski who is immersed in diverse musical traditions such as Balkan folklore, Persian classical music, European classical music and Cuban music. American bassist Matt Adomeit, was raised on an eclectic diet of jazz, baroque and classical music. Mathias Ruppnig, from Austria, is an outstanding drummer who can play everything from conventional jazz to adventurous modern jazz.

Hugo Fernández is a Mexican jazz guitarist who has settled in Berlin since 6 years, after more than a decade in Madrid. His musical quest has led him to build his own universe, where the rich legacy of jazz coexists with the energy of other music such as pop-rock, world folklore and classical. At the age of 23, he traveled to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music. In 2003 he moved to New Orleans to study for a master’s degree in jazz studies.
He has performed at venues and festivals in Mexico, Spain and in Germany, increasingly carving a niche for himself on the jazz scene in the rest of Europe.
“His compositions appear in music with widely varied elements of folk forms, Western classical music, and even pop, informing his deep jazz sensibility. they embrace a musical world that could be a prospective vision of jazz“ – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, HKW Berlin

Classically trained starting at the age of 6, Daniel Stawinski adopted jazz under the direction of Alexander von Schlippenbach and Aki Takase. From 2001 till 2005 he studied jazz piano at the Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler and joined the Bujazzo (German Youth Jazz Orchestra) directed by Peter Herbolzheimer.
From 2005 to 2015 he lived in Paris and worked in France as well as in neighbouring countries, touring extensively with the Yilian Cañizares quintet.
Back in Berlin since 2015, he founded the Kammerjazz Kollektiv and the Masnavi Duo, two ground-breaking projects exploring new musical territories between modern jazz and classical European and Persian music traditions. He is also the musical director of the Cuban Heartbeat Ensemble. a vibrant Latin jazz sextet performing regularly at Berlin’s Zigzag jazz club.
Daniel has been performing in numerous countries in Europe and around the globe and in renowned jazz festivals such as Klavier Festival Ruhr, Marciac Jazz Festival, Kathmandu Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, Cully Jazz Festival, Martinique Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival de Port-au-Prince, Jazz Festival de Saint-Louis…

Matt Adomeit is an American jazz bassist, composer, and mandolinist currently based in Berlin, Germany. Matt was raised on an eclectic diet of baroque and classical music, American old-time and Irish trad, and these early influences inform his approach to jazz and other modern genres. Matt is active as both a sideman and a bandleader and can regularly be seen performing across Europe and beyond with bands including Steel Sheep, The Gerhard Ornig Trio, The Rick Hollander Quartet, the Ed Kröger Quintet, Mn’Jam Experiment, and more.

Austrian drummer and composer Mathias Ruppnig is an in-demand musician of the European jazz scene. With his own project „SCOPES“ he tours Europe and Asia regularly. He completed both a Bachelor and Master’s Degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.
As a leader and composer he released five records on well established labels such as british based Whirlwind Recordings.
He collaborated with musicians like David Liebman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jim Rotondi, Charles Altura, Ben van Gelder, China Moses or Justin Stanton (Snarky Puppy).
Ruppnig appeared on several international Jazz Festivals. For example Jazzfestival Saalfelden, CULLY Jazzfestival, Inntöne Jazzfestival, Jazz in the Park in Romania, the Alfa Jazz Fest in Ukraine, the Jarasum Jazzfestival in South Korea or Jazzmandu Jazzfestival in Nepal.
In 2014, he won the „Downbeat Award for College Graduate Outstanding Performance“ in the Latin group category with the KUG Composers’ Ensemble. Since 2018 Mathias is a member of “Tobias Meinhart Berlin People (Sunnyside Records) and in 2022 he performed with the Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio at the Grillo-Theater in Essen (GER) and at Jazz Club Sounds in Brussels (BE).

Daniel Stawinsky – Piano
Matt Adomeit  – Contrabass
Mathias Ruppnig – Drums
Hugo Fernandez – Guitar & Composition