Christina Fuchs

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Christina Fuchs (2009, in the background Romy Herzberg)

Christina Fuchs (born December 24, 1963 in Munich ) is a German jazz musician ( saxophonist , bass clarinetist , composer and band leader).

Live and act

After studying history and German in Freiburg im Breisgau , Fuchs studied at the Cologne University of Music between 1987 and 1989 . Since 1987 she has been working as a tenor saxophonist, bass clarinetist and composer in various formations of new and improvised music and jazz. She is successful with her Duo Kontrasax (with Romy Herzberg ), her Quartet NoTango (with Ulla Oster , Christoph Hillmann and the accordionist Florian Stadler) and has written music for theater, film and radio. She also forms the doubleXXSaxophoneQuartett with Angelika Niescier , Caroline Thon and Christine Hörmann . Between 1992 and 2009 she co-directed the big band United Women's Orchestra with Hazel Leach , with whom she released three CDs. She has also recorded her own compositions with the NDR Bigband and played in the Multiple Joy [ce] Orchestra . In 2012 she combined her NoTango quartet with Andrea Keller's quartet ; this octet, for which both directors composed, was celebrated as the highlight of the Wangaratta Jazz Festival 2012 and gave concerts in Germany in 2014. In 2019 she released the album Newton's Cradle with her compositions with the WDR Big Band . Together with Caroline Thon, she has led the large-format Fuchsthone Orchestra since 2019 , which received good reviews due to its unusual soundscapes.

Prizes and awards

In 1995, Fuchs received the Jazz & Literature scholarship . In 1999 she studied with Maria Schneider in New York and George Russell in Boston on a BMI Composers Program scholarship . Among other things, she won the jazzart NRW composition competition 2001/2002 and the Julius Hemphill Composition Awards for Large Ensemble (2002). She is the winner of the WDR Jazz Prize for Composition 2014. She has a daughter and lives and works in Cologne.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No Tango & AKQ - Cologne meets Melbourne
  2. ↑ Christina Fuchs and WDR Big Band: Release of the album Newton's Cradle
  3. ↑ Dietrich Schlegel An unusual big band the Fuchsthone Orchestra Jazzzeitung , December 5, 2019
  4. ↑ WDR Jazz Prize 2014 - The winners have been announced! ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (saxophonist, bass clarinetist, composer and band leader)
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich