Angelika Niescier

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Angelika Niescier, May 12, 2008, Moers Festival

Angelika Niescier (* 1970 in Szczecin , Poland) is a German jazz - musician (soprano and alto saxophone, composition) and bandleader of Polish origin.

Live and act

In 1981 Niescier moved to Germany. From 1994 to 1998 she studied at the Folkwang University in Essen . In 2000 she founded her quartet Angelika Niescier-sublim , with whom she recorded three highly regarded CDs. Since then she has played on stages at home and abroad, produced for radio and TV (including WDR, Radio Bremen, Bayerischer Rundfunk) and toured Central Asia and South Korea in 2007 on behalf of the Goethe Institute . The musician played solo and duo programs (with Julia Hülsmann and André Nendza , among others), was also involved in other jazz projects and others. a. with Tom Lorenz , Laia Genc , Rupert Stamm and Ali Haurand's European Jazz Ensemble . In 2010 and 2011 she toured the Middle East with her German Women Jazz Orchestra .

She also played with Joachim Kühn , Ramesh Shotham , Achim Kaufmann , Tyshawn Sorey , Ulrike Haage , Soo Jung Kae, Thomas Morgan , Gerd Dudek , Hans Lüdemann , Peter Herbert and Mehdi Haddab.
Niescier deals a lot with interdisciplinary cooperation (with writers and visual artists (among other things as a "Concert of the German Music Council" in January 2003)). As a composer she also writes commissioned compositions for u. a. Theater music, modern dance theater, choral and orchestral works and film music (“Three women, three wishes, one year”).

Another trio (with Simone Zanchini , accordion and Stefano Senni , double bass) was created in 2012 through a composition commission for the Alto Adige jazz festival in South Tyrol , which toured clubs and festivals and recorded an album.

The current line-up of Angelika Niesciers - sublim includes (2019) Angelika Niescier, saxophone; Florian Weber , piano; Matthias Akeo Nowak , double bass and Christoph Hillmann , drums. She can also be heard with Weber in her NYC Five with trumpeter Ralph Alessi and in the rhythm section Eric Reves and Gerald Cleaver .

Angelika Niescier at the award ceremony of the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize (German Jazz Prize) 2017 in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Prizes and awards

In 1998 she received the Düsseldorf Prize for Music . In 2003 she was awarded the North Rhine-Westphalia Music Prize. In 2008 she appeared as improviser in residence at the Moers Festival and enriched the cultural life in Moers for a year . She also received grants and funding from the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia and the State Ministry of Culture. In August 2009 she received the quarterly award of the German record critics for the album sublim III and in May 2010 the ECHO Jazz in the category “Newcomer of the year national”. In 2013 she was awarded the 16th Jazz Pot in Essen's Grillo Theater . Her album with Florian Weber and the NYC Five received the quarterly award of the German Record Critics in 2016. In 2017 Niescier was awarded the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize (German Jazz Prize) .

Quotes

"The tone is rich and colorful, the technique is virtuoso, which seems to be driven by energy, a wealth of inspiration and the pressure to communicate, as if the player never had to practice for it."

- Ulrich Olshausen , FAZ jazz critic
  • "I am damaged by Coltrane," says Angelika Niescier with a slight coquetry. - Ulrich Olshausen

Discography

year title Label Note / occupation
2000 Wooden line game crecyclemusic Duo Niescier / Nendza
2002 sublime shaa-music
2004 sublime II shaa-music
2007 The Poetry Of Rhythm Jazz sick Duo Niescier / Nendza feat kaj: kaj, the string quartet
2008 Composed in Germany 08 normal records Edition film music
2009 sublime III Enja Records
2011 Quite Simply Enja Records Angelika Niescier, Thomas Morgan , Tyshawn Sorey
2012 MiND GAMeS OutNow - Recordings Denman Maroney , James Ilgenfritz , Angelika Niescier, Andrew Drury
2015 NOW blue pearls music Angelika Niescier, Simone Zanchini, Stefano Senni
2015 BROKEN CYCLE Sunny Sky Records Angelika Niescier, Hilmar Jensson , Scott McLemore
2016 NYC FIVE Intakt Records Ralph Alessi , Angelika Niescier, Florian Weber , Christopher Tordini , Tyshawn Sorey
2018 The Berlin Concert Intakt Records Angelika Niescier, Christopher Tordini, Tyshawn Sorey
2019 New York Trio Intakt Records Angelika Niescier, Christopher Tordini, Gerald Cleaver , feat. Jonathan Finlayson
2019 Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic IX: Pannonica ACT Iiro Rantala , Dan Berglund , Anton Eger , Angelika Niescier, Ernie Watts , Charenée Wade

Web links

Commons : Angelika Niescier  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Goethe Institute and the German Embassy in Bishkek presented Angelika Niescier and her quartet Sublim on October 6, 2007 ( Memento from October 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Cf. Jazz in Gaza in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 16, 2011. The first ever concert by a jazz band took place in Gaza City on July 13, 2011, cf. Ma'an News Agency .
  3. ↑ The documentary by Corinna Belz and Bärbel Maiwurm also deals with Niescier's wishes
  4. ↑ Jazz Live Niescier / Zanchini / Senni , Deutschlandfunk, December 16, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014
  5. ↑ NYC Five (domicil Dortmund)
  6. ↑ Stefan Pieper: Improvisers in Residence take turns. 2009, accessed June 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jazz pot for musician from Essen
  8. ↑ Best list 2nd quarter 2016
  9. ↑ German Jazz Prize to Angelika Niescier ( Memento from September 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), JazzCity September 6, 2017, accessed October 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Niescier, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin , Poland