Dennis Sekretarev is a trumpet player and composer born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (then Soviet Union) and raised in Frankfurt Main, Germany. He has performed professionally since age 18 in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Japan, Romania, France, Austria, Switzerland and the U.S.A. He was musically active in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Philadelphia and New York.
In 2006 he took first prize at the Hessen state youth Jazz competition as a composer and member of the band Contrast Quartet, in 2010 he received the Frankfurt Work Grant for his work as a Jazz composer and in 2016 he received the composition price at the Tremplin Jazz competition in Avignon, France. Dennis is a graduate of the Amsterdam Conservatory.
He has performed at venues and festivals such as Jazzkeller Frankfurt, Bimhuis, the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, Saalfelden Jazz Festival in Austria and Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival in Lithuania.
He collaborated witch artists such as Claudio Roditi, Joe Gallardo, Tony Lakatos, Christoph Spendel, Wayne Escoffery, Eran HarEven, Yoran Vroom, Toms Rudzinskis, Borislav Petrov, Joel Holmes, Volker Engelberth, Christoph Neuhaus, Jasper Stadhouders, John Dikeman, Onno Govaert, the bands Botticelli Baby, the Zebra Street Band and many others.
In 2024 he released two albums as a composer and bandleader with his band DNS JAZZ and with his project Mobius.