Agnes Lepp

Agnes Lepp (* 1985 ) is a German jazz musician ( vocals , lyrics).

Live and act

Lepp, who grew up in a musical family in the greater Stuttgart area, learned the saxophone at the age of nine . Classical piano lessons were added at the age of 14 ; After discovering more and more her singing skills, she began taking classical singing lessons from the age of 16. After graduating from high school, she concentrated more and more on jazz singing . After she began studying German and Italian, she studied jazz singing from 2007 to 2013 at the Nuremberg University of Music with Reinette van Zijtveld and Elisabeth Tuchmann.

She was a singer in the LandesJugendJazzOrchester Baden-Württemberg and in the European Masterclass Big Band under the direction of John Ruocco. She is currently working with the guitarist Filip Wisniewski in the duo Leppinski 2 , with whom she also presented an album of the same name in 2012 and also performs in trio and quintet format. She is also part of Rebecca's Treschers Formation 11 , with whom she has appeared at several festivals and recorded the albums Fields and Floating Food . She can also be heard on Izabella Effenberg's album Iza and on Paweł Czubatka's Drums & Dreams . As a soloist, she was heard in several performances of Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert in the summer of 2018 .

Prizes and awards

In 2004 Lepp was in the semifinals of the German Rock & Pop Prize in Hamburg. With her duo project Leppinski 2 she won the 3rd prize in the international jazz competition Jazz Hoeilaart (Belgium) in 2011 . With Treschers Ensemble 11 she received the Bavarian Art Prize in 2017 in the music and dance category .

Discographic notes

• Rebecca Trescher Ensemble 11 Floating Food ( Enja , 2017; with Florian Bischof, Andreas Feith, Konstantin Herleinsberger , Markus Harm , Max Leiß, Silvio Morger , Maja Taube, Julian Fau, Volker Heuken , Hironaru Saito)
• Rebecca Trescher Ensemble 11 Fields (Label 11, 2015)
• Leppinski 3 Home (2015, with Lutz Häfner )
• Agnes Lepp, Silke Straub, Rayka Wehner, Yara Linss & Metropolmusik Engelesingen (Label 11, 2011)

Web links

• Web presence
• Agnes Lepp at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography }
2. ↑ Leppinski
3. ↑ CHOIR attracts with the "Sacred Concert"
4. ↑ Outstanding artists receive Bavarian Art Prize 2017
5. ↑ Discussion of Jazzthing