Carolyn Breuer
Carolyn Breuer (born July 4, 1969 in Munich ) is a German jazz musician ( soprano and alto saxophone ).
Live and act
As the daughter of the trombonist Hermann Breuer, Breuer was born with jazz. At the age of 19 she studied with Ferdinand Povel as a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra at the Hilversum Conservatory . After graduating, she spent a long time in New York City , where she took private lessons with George Coleman and Branford Marsalis . Carolyn worked with musicians like Coleman, Tine Schneider and Ingrid Jensen and founded her own record label NotNowMom! -Records in 2000 . Her album Fate Smiles on Those Who Stay Cool (2001) became so popular in the Netherlands that Interior Minister Klaas de Vries began a parliamentary speech by quoting the title. For her CD Serenade with the Orchestra of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam she received the Heidelberg Artist Prize in 2003, which until then had only been awarded to classical musicians. International tours, appearances at the Berlin Jazz Fest or the North Sea Jazz Festival are just as much evidence of her artistic value as her work as a guest soloist with the WDR Big Band in Cologne . In 2019 she led a quartet together with Andrea Hermenau .
Selection discography
- Hermann & Carolyn Breuer Family Affair (1992, with Aldo Caviglia, Peter O'Mara , Marc Abrams and Wolfgang Haffner )
- Carolyn Breuer • Fee Claassen Quintet Simply Be (Challenge Records 1995, with Sebastian Altekamp , Stephan van Wylick, Joost Patocka , and Hermann Breuer, Ferdinand Povel )
- WitchCraft: live (2004, with Stacy Rowles , Anke Helfrich , Lindy Huppertsberg , Carola Gray )
- Carolyn Breuer & Sabine Bohlmann The Little Earth Bear , a "jazzical" for children (2007, with Moses Wolff , Conny Kreitmeier and Bastian Jütte , among others )
- Four Seasons of Life (2013, with Henning Sieverts , Christian Gall, Hermann Breuer, WDR Big Band Cologne and others)
Web links
- Web presence
- Interview (2019)
- "Heile-Welt-Pain and Symphony Orchestra" Interview on the production of Serenade (2004) ( Memento from May 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Discussion of the Four Seasons of Life (Bayerischer Rundfunks) ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Carolyn Breuer at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breuer, Carolyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich , Germany |