Barbara Jungfer

Barbara Jungfer (2011 in the Unterfahrt )

Barbara Jungfer (born February 9, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German jazz guitarist .

Live and act

Jungfer has been playing the guitar since she was eleven; initially she was influenced by the Beatles and blues musicians . She played at numerous jam sessions in Berlin jazz clubs and took lessons from Walter Norris and other Berlin jazz musicians. In 1991 she played with John Tchicai . From 1992 to 1998 she studied jazz guitar and music education at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, and then continued her education in workshops with Enrico Rava and in Banff, Canada . In 1998 she returned to Berlin, where she first founded an organ-guitar trio and then directed other bands of her own. She also played with Helmut Brandt ( The Final Session ), the NDR Pops Orchestra , the Berlin Big Band and Klaus Doldingers Passport . She also toured in Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Morocco, India and with Peter O'Mara in Australia. The guitarist has lived in Munich since 2007.

Prizes and awards

Together with tuba player Pauline Boeykens, she won the Berlin Cultural Senate's studio award in 2004 for the interpretation of Gertrude Stein's works, and in the same year she won the Berlin Blues Award as a guitarist in Waldi Weiz's band . In 2006 she received a scholarship from the Berlin Senate for a stay in New York City .

Discographic notes

Vitamin B3 (2001, with Wolfgang Roggenkamp, Christoph Schlemmer)
Berlin Spirits (2005, with Sven Klammer, Anke Helfrich , Oliver Potratz , Sebastian Merk ); "Jazz CD of the month" ( stereo play )
Going Places (2008, with Florian Trübsbach , Henning Sieverts , Scott White, Guido May , Christoph Schlemmer)

Lexical entries

Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

Commons : Barbara Jungfer - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Jungfer, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin