Tobias Schuster is a native of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian alps. He studied music and cultural studies in Lueneburg and gained entry into the wide world of jazz through work for the JazzClassica festivals, the European Jazz Festival in Schloss Elmau, the Night Club at Bayrischer Hof in Munich and, finally Traumton Records in Berlin. In 2003 he founded Shoestring Jazz Booking. Over the past twenty-something years, Tobias has worked with artists like Django Bates, Michael Wollny, Heinz Sauer, Kalle Kalima, Eric Schaefer, Charlotte Greve, Johanna Borchert, Aki Takase, Efrat Alony & Daniel Erdmann.