Wolf Robert Stratmann is a young bassist from Bielefeld, Germany, who studied Audio Design and Music Production at the SRH School of Popular Arts (hdpk) in Berlin. During this time he collaborated with various projects and artists of pop and jazz music (incl. CATT, VΛLUE, Marie Feiler, Die Lochis, Alice Merton, Big Band Kameleon, Musication Big Band (UdK), Berliner Jugend Jazz Orchester, Jugendclub der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Mirko Firzlaff, Ya Puso La Marrana, Zustra, M!co).
After releasing his own music with the Aeroglyph Collective and a preparatory year at the Musikschule City West Berlin, he decided to continue his musical journey in Jazz in the Netherlands at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. There he worked primarily on his contemporary jazz project, the "SWL trio", with which he regularly performed his original music in the Netherlands and in Germany, including a feature with the German guitarist Axel Fischbacher. Furthermore, he was active in a working band project called “The Jinjies”, a project that focused on traditional Jazz repertoire, American Songbook Classics and renown Latin pieces. On the side he started aswell to produce lofi inspired music under the alias "Pineapplehead". During the end of his studies Wolf Robert had as well the opportunity to share the stage with Italian Tenor Saxophonist Claudio Jr. De Rosa and the German Drummer Felix Schlarmann and recorded for the Italian Composer and Guitarist Stefano Gullo.
In August 2023 and after successfully finishing his Bachelor studies and receiving a scholarship, he moved to New York City US to study at The New School the Master Program Jazz Performer/Composer under Buster Williams and Kevin Scott. Shortly after his arrival in NYC he continued to work on his work as a project leader with his long time collaborator and life partner Sujae Jung and newly made friend, Anders Bak Julsgaard, from Denmark. In December of the same year they recorded new Originals at GSI Studios in Manhattan in form of a studio concert. This live recording has been recently released on the New York City based label "29th Street Editions", a label founded by Kevin Scott and Austin White. Moreover he recently independently released the Jung Stratmann Duo E.P. "Bird of Luck", which contains another selection of intimate recordings of his Original music.
Among others Wolf took regular or recurring bass lessons from Björn Werra, Simon Pauli, Paul Kleber, Horst Nonnenmacher, Roberto Badoglio, Mark Haanstra, Gulli Guðmundsson, Roelof Meijer, Evan Marien, Petros Klampanis, Tim Lefebvre, Marcus McLaurine, Steve Cardenas and Marko Djordjevic.
Furthermore, he was a scholarship recipient for the 2024 Living Jazz "Jazz Camp West" in California 2024.
