Alexandra Lehmler

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Alexandra Lehmler at a concert in the Stadtkirche Darmstadt on January 31, 2015

Alexandra Lehmler (born October 30, 1979 in Bad Ems ) is a German jazz musician ( alto , baritone , soprano saxophone and bass clarinet ).

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Lehmler began taking clarinet lessons at the age of eight; five years later she switched to the saxophone. In Montabaur she attended the Landesmusikgymnasium Rheinland-Pfalz , where she graduated from high school in 2000. She has won several prizes at Jugend jazzt . She studied at the Musikhochschule Mannheim , where she graduated with a grade of 1 in summer 2005. During this time she was a member of the state youth jazz orchestras of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg and from 2002 to 2004 belonged to the Bujazzo under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer . As part of her postgraduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart , she spent a semester abroad in Paris.

Lehmler has been leading her own quartet since 2000, which initially included the pianist Daniel Prandl , the bassist Matthias Debus and the drummer Max Mahlert, which was expanded to a quintet in 2004 by the percussionist Farouk Gomati. She was successful with the band at home and abroad and has so far released four albums. The debut album Sundance (2007) was nominated for the quarterly award of the German record critics . In 2014 she received the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize because , according to the chairman of the jury, Bernd Konrad , she “impresses with the colorfulness of her mature game”; her compositions are “partly entertaining”, but “nonetheless at the highest artistic level.” Lehmler has three children with her husband Matthias Debus . In addition, she plays as a musician in theater productions a. a. at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , created and supervised jazz projects for children and was elected to the Bundeswerkstatt Jazz in 2012.

In 2014 she formed a band for the Enjoy Jazz festival that consisted of the French percussion virtuoso Patrice Héral , Franck Tortiller on vibraphone, Herbert Joos on trumpet and Matthias Debus on bass. With this band, Lehmler released an album called Sans mots in February 2017 . As a jazz composer, she was the winner of the New German Composition Prize at the New German Jazz Prize 2018 .

Since 2014 she has been a member of the board of the Union of German Jazz Musicians .

Publications

  • 2007: Sundance
  • 2009: The world seen from below
  • 2011: No Blah Blah
  • 2013: Jazz, baby!
  • 2015: Live
  • 2017: Sans mots
  • 2020: studio concert

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Interview (Melodiva)
  2. ↑ Rationale of the jury quoted in press release on the Ba-Wü Jazz Prize 2014 (Ministry of Science, Research and Art)
  3. ↑ a b The winners of March 23 and 24, 2018 , IG Jazz for the thirteenth edition of the New German Jazz Prize, accessed April 29, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Lehmler, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Ems