Austrian drummer and composer Mathias Ruppnig is an indemand 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, Ben van Gelder, Charles Altura, 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).
