Corinna Danzer

Corinna Danzer (2016)

Corinna Danzer (* 1962 ) is a German jazz saxophonist .

Life

Danzer studied at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (graduated in 1991) and then moved to Frankfurt am Main . In the same year she received the first jazz scholarship from the city of Frankfurt and played with musicians such as Emil Mangelsdorff , Markus Becker, Manfred Bründl , Annemarie Roelofs , Norbert Scholly , Adrian Mears and Anke Helfrich . With the guitarist Martin Lejeune she founded the Corinna Danzer / Martin Lejeune Quartet. She also worked with the Hr Big Band and took part in productions with Toots Thielemans , Benny Golson , Kenny Burrell , Ernie Watts and Ingrid Jensen . Her work also focuses on pedagogy and teaching jazz. She is involved in the Deutsche Jazzunion (formerly Union of German Jazz Musicians , UDJ), for which she has been a member of the Federal Education Committee of the German Music Council since 2018 . At the HfMdK Frankfurt she is a co-initiator of the project seminar “Jazz in primary school”.

As a member of the United Women's Orchestra and the Polish-German Jazz Connection of Vitold Rek they had numerous festival appearances. Danzer also works as a theater musician ( Saarbrücken State Theater , as well as in a jazz version of Peter and the Wolf with the Frankfurt Jazz Hunters and Cornelia Niemann ).