Jonas Zink

About

Jonas Zink (BA) is a drummer, percussionist and educator currently living and working in Innsbruck and Vienna, Austria.Born in 1999, he visited the local Musikgymnasium before he went on to study Classical Percussion (IGP) with Norbert Rabanser and Gunnar Fras, Ethno-Percussion with Anton Mühlhofer and Amir Wahba as well as Jazz-Drums with teachers such as Georg Tausch, Walter Grassmann, Mario Gonzi, Mareike Wiening, Tilo Weber and Mario Lackner.
He is a winner of many 1st, 2nd and special awards, performing either as a soloist or in bands/ensembles in competitions such as Prima la Musica, Podium Jazz Pop Rock, OSEW, Italy Percussion Competition and many more. Besides that, he took private lessons and masterclasses from drummers and percussionists such as Joel Barford, Kweku Sumbry, Peter Erskine, Raphael Christen, Peter Primus Frosch, Klemens Marktl, Mark Whitfield Jr., Omar Hakim, Ari Hoenig etc.Striving to be a versatile musician, his projects cover various musical styles and genres, ranging from Contemporary Jazz to Indie-Folk-Pop, Modern Big-Band as well as
Neo-Soul/Fusion and many more.He worked and performed together with musicians such as Florian Bramböck, Micaela Haslam, Emma Rawicz, Paul Urbanek, Peter Rom, Matthew Halpin, Erik van Lier etc. as well as performing in various Brassbands (CatchBasin-Brassband (European Youth Champion 2019),
Contemporary Chamber Orchestras (Kammerorchester Innstrumenti, Tiroler Ensemble für Neue Musik, Windkraft), theatre productions (Tiroler Landestheater) and others.Other noteable performances include Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (under the conduction of Micaela Haslam), The Music of Frank Zappa (conducted by Markus Geiselhart), Charles Mingus - Epitaph (conducted by Titus Engel) as well as Carmina Burana (Wiltener Sängerknaben), all of which were performed by students of the Tyrolean State Conservatory or the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW).From 2022 until 2025 he was part of the LiveMusicNow programme, which allows young musicians to teach and perform in facilities with reduced access to live music.
Besides performing, he took part in organizing and holding workshops at the Daniel-Sailer-Schule in Innsbruck.