About

My name ist Jess A. Sievers and I am a musician living in Berlin.

I started playing music when I was 5 years old and I never stopped playing until then.

I am a singer songwriter, violinist and multiinstrumentalist, and I am working as a music teacher.

I dedicated all my life to music, to play better, to play faster, to learn to play more instruments and always to find ways to express something that might be useful for the lifes of other people and my own.

I played in orchestras, I played big gigs, small gigs and I did a lot of busking in Germany and Europe. I practised for perfection in big universities and I practised to unlearn so many things to be able to express music in a free way.

I have learned to play violin and guitar with great teachers like Professor Maria Grevesmühl (violin), Julienne Riedel (violin) and Johannes Ehemann (guitar), and I learned to write my own lyrics from great people like Michael Jackson, Rio Reiser and Bob Dylan.

After 38 years of practice I had lived almost all the ups and downs of a musical carreer. But I was kind of stuck on my path of music. After trying so many ways, after practising for so long I was feeling kind of empty inside, and I had difficulties to keep up the intensity that I was looking for. And even when i tried to go deep into the matter, the outcome seemed kind of weak and I seemed to be unable to reach it to the full.

It was then that I met Hidgi Chuan.

Playing music with Hidgi Chuan means to play music with a Shaolin monk. Until then I had been playing with many musicions from several countries, average musicians of today. Most of them drinking alcohol when going to a jam session, smoking cigarrettes, being high, smoking pot sometimes, hanging out at parties etc. Some of them were more professional, others were less. But to play music with a Master of martial arts and a Shaolin monk was something complely new for me.

This experience evoke so many questions, reflections and new approaches that I had never had the courage to really ask to myself before. I am extremely happy that I had the chance to meet this man and to spend a lot of time with him in music, sport, travels and discoveries that were able to change my whole approach in music to deeply and profoundly.

I hope that every musician will have an experience like the one that I was able to have.