Philipp Gropper (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, composition) was born in Berlin in 1978. He began to play the saxophone at the age of seven. Gropper studied the jazz saxophone at the UDK Berlin and played with the concert section of Bujazzo for two years. He has since been busy as a freelance sax player and composer, dedicating most of his time to developing his musical ideas. In 2003, he started the trio HYPERACTIVE KID with Ronny Graupe and Christian Lillinger, and in 2012 founded the quartet PHILM, in the actual line up with Elias Stemeseder, Robert Landfermann and Leif Berger. In 2013 - exploring yet again a completely different field of music - he initiated TAU5, an electro acoustic group with Philipp Zoubek, Petter Eldh, Ludwig Wandinger and Moritz Baumgärtner. In 2020 he started another group together with Gaia Mattiuzzi and Grischa Lichtenberger.Concerts with these bands and others have brought Gropper to over 40 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South Ameri