Barbara Barth

Barbara Barth (* 1983 in Saarland ) is a German jazz musician ( vocals , arrangement , composition ).

Live and act

Barth, who grew up in a Saarland village, was enthusiastic about music as a child. She received lessons on the piano and the flute , later classical singing lessons. As a teenager she was involved in a symphonic wind orchestra and the local big band , sang in the choir and in the school band. After graduating from high school, she studied psychology at the University of Trier . During her studies she became a member of the Landesjugendjazzorchester Saar. She then studied jazz singing at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (Bachelor of Music 2015).

In 2011 Barth founded her own Barbara Barth Quintet , in which she mainly interprets her own compositions; her debut album was released in 2015. She also worked in the avant-garde, experimental sextet JassLab de Cologne and in the Ellington Trio , in which she presents traditional scat singing . She is also the vocal part of the Trier big band Blue Art Orchestra , which is committed to modern jazz , under the direction of Georg Ruby . She is also active in a duo with the pianist Manuel Krass, in which she also works with electronic sound generators.

She is also a lecturer at the Saar University of Music for jazz singing.

Discographic notes

• Barbara Barth Quintett: This is… (Jazz'n'arts Records, 2015, with Florian Boos, Manuel Krass, Moritz Götzen, Philipp Klahn)
• JassLab de Cologne: One and One ( JazzHausMusik , 2015, with Markus Koch, Sebastian Büscher, Georg Ruby, Moritz Götzen, Vince Deckstein)
• Ellington Trio: Duke's Place (Luxaries Records, 2016, with Gero Körner, Caspar van Meel, and Klaus Osterloh )
• Barbara Barth / Manuel Krass In Spheres (JazzHausMusik, 2018)

Web links

• Web presence
• Barbara Barth at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry (HfM Saar)
2. ↑ Barbara Barth and Manuel Krass presented a new CD in the Café Livres in Essen (Jazzzeitung)