Sebastian Peszko is a multifaceted violist, violinist, composer and studio-musician, based in Berlin, Germany. Since his childhood, he showed an early interest in music, embracing throughout his career a wide range of different music styles, including Classical music, Jazz Manouche, Jazz, Blues, Pop, Rock and World music.
After graduating from the Royal College of Music in London and from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he obtained his Master’s Diploma, he worked as a freelancer with different orchestras and chamber music ensembles.
During his artistic career he has performed in some of the world’s best known concert halls and festivals such as –
Philharmonie Berlin, Carnegie Hall, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Konzerthaus Berlin, Volksbühne Berlin, Uber Arena Berlin, Philharmonie Munich, Kitara Hall Sapporo, Opera City Tokyo, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Osaka Symphony Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Haldern Pop Festival, Momo Festival, Rolling Stone Festival and Jazzopen festival in Stuttgart.
He has also performed and recorded with many international artists, bands and jazz ensembles like – Moka Efti Orchestra, Nightmares on Wax, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Diego Pinera, Grandbrothers, Roland Kaiser, Staubkind, Isolation Berlin, Mateusz Smoczynski, Mozes Rosenberg, Gauthier Toux, Tomasz Dabrowski, Kenneth Dahl Knudsen, Leon Gurvitch, Daniel Weltlinger, Tal Arditi, Ganna Gryniva, Filippo Dall’Asta, Kammerjazz Kollektiv, Daniel Stawinski, Susanne Paul, Heloise Lefebvre, Charles Frechette, Dima Bondarev, Stay Strong Orchestra, Getachew Kassa, Selam Woldemariam, Ingrid Halle, Mediterranean Ensemble, Composers Orchestra Berlin, Babylon Orchestra and worked as well as a musician for the TV series “Babylon Berlin”. In 2022 he published his latest release, “Journey”, an album that invites the listener to take a sonic journey through the different musical genres and influences with which the artist identifies and manages to capture a novel and original vision of European jazz.