Salome Amend is a drummer living in Wuppertal. She has close ties to the city, born and raised there, and completed her studies with Prof. Christian Roderburg, Matthias Haus, and Mirek Pyschny at the University of Music and Dance Cologne, Wuppertal campus. Her artistic focus is on new music, improvisation, electronic music and crossover projects. Her passion is performing contemporary music. She practices both as a soloist and in various chamber music ensembles. In addition to participating in established ensembles such as the notabu.ensemble neue musik and the ensemble 20/21, she founded the duo PS:Percussion with her colleague Pavel Beliaev in 2017. Through various chamber music projects, Salome has played at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, De Bijloke Muziekcentrum Gent, De Doelen Rotterdam and the Cologne Philharmonic, and many more. She has recorded productions for Deutschlandfunk with the ensemble 20/21. A concert tour through China with Tempus Loquendi took her to the renowned Beijing Modern Music Festival. In the field of improvisation, Salome has worked with artists such as Hauschka, Milton Camilo and Peter Brötzmann on interdisciplinary cultural collaborations in the fields of dance, art and literature. Crossover projects have taken her to the Pina Bausch Dance Theatre and the tanzhaus NRW. In 2019, Salome took part in the Toten Hosen’s DVD production “Ohne Strom”. Salome Amend has been a lecturer at the Folkwang Music School Essen and the University of Wuppertal since 2018.