Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Johannes Haage started playing music on violin from age 5, but switched to guitar about eight years later. As a highschool exchange student in Portland, Oregon he started playing jazz regularly and continued to do so back home. He started his college education at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, but soon transfered to Berlin to succesfully finish his studies.
Over the years his travels playing and studying music took him to places like the Center of the Arts in Banff, Canada, and New York City where he had the chance to play with and deepen his studies with Bill Frisell, Brad Shepik, Ben Monder, Mark Turner, Dave Douglas, Drew Gress, Ralph Alessi and many others.
In Berlin he has been a very active member of the vital young jazz and improvised music scene since moving there in 2002, playing with many different musicians like Ben Kraef, Philipp Gropper, Ritsche Koch, Oli Steidle, Simon Bauer, Brendan Dougherty and many more. Besides the many loose collaborations and gigs as sideman he currently leads a trio with organ/keys and drums (feat. Mark Reinke and Diego Pinera) and the Johannes Haage Trio, featuring Andreas Lang on bass and Sebastian Merk on drums. The trio´s debut album „Johannes Haage Trio plays Marlene Dietrich“ will be released on Meta Records in November 2010.
