Birgitta Flick
Birgitta Flick (born August 21, 1985 in Filderstadt ) is a German jazz musician ( saxophone , composition).
Live and act
Flick grew up in Neubrandenburg and initially received recorder and piano lessons. She started playing the saxophone when she was 13. In 2002 she moved to Berlin, where she was promoted until 2005 as a young student at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin . Between 2005 and 2010 she studied at the Jazz Institute Berlin with Peter Less and Kurt Rosenwinkel ; In 2008 she spent a semester at the Stockholm Conservatory with Johan Hörlén . In 2014/2015 she studied with Connie Crothers .
She was also active in the Berlin Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Federal Jazz Orchestra , as well as in Christof Griese's big band JayJayBeCe . In 2005 she won the nationwide competition Jugend jazzt with the Charlottenburg Saxophone Quartet .
Flick not only composes for her Birgitta Flick Quartet, but also for the Flickstick quintet , which she leads together with trombonist Lisa Stick and which received the IS.BH sponsorship award at JazzBaltica in 2012 . With the singer Lina Nyberg , the guest soloists Silke Eberhard and Nico Lohmann and their Birgitta Flick Quartet, Walter Quintus recorded her album Dalarna , which reflects the shepherd music of the Swedish region of Dalarna .
She also worked in the Nico Lohmann Quintet, with whom she also recorded two albums, and the Peter Tenner Jazz Orchestra. She performed in the Middle East and Egypt with the German Women`s Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Angelika Niescier . Flick has performed at festivals such as the Burghausen Jazz Week , Elbjazz , Jazz Baltica, Cairo Jazz Festival and the New Sound Made Festival in Stockholm.
Discographic notes
- Yingying ( Double Moon Records 2013, with Andreas Schmidt , Andreas Edelmann, Max Andrzejewski )
- Flickstick Hymn (WismART 2014, with Lisa Stick, Aleksi Ranta, Max and Christian Augustin)
- Dalarna (Double Moon Records 2016)
- Carol Liebowitz / Birgitta Frick: Malita-Malika ( Leo Records , 2018)
Web links
- Web presence
- Birgitta Flick at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flick, Birgitta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (saxophone, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Filderstadt |